SPARROW
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SPARROW

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SPARROW: There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Perhaps there is a warning for us all about the decline of a species which used to be a byword for abundance…

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SWANS
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SWANS

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SWAN: like Juno’s swans still we went coupled and inseparable. Read more about Swans, their dying song and their symbolic significance.

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BLACKBIRD
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BLACKBIRD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, BLACKBIRD/Black Ouzel: the ouzel cock so black of hue, with orange-tawny bill. Read more about this widespread, tuneful bird.

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TURTLE DOVE
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TURTLE DOVE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, TURTLE DOVES: as true as steel, as plantage to the moon, as sun to day, as turtle to her mate. The iconic Turtle Dove is associated with loyal love but it declining rapidly.

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ROBIN
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ROBIN

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ROBIN: to relish a love song like a robin redbreast.

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Pelican
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Pelican

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PELICAN: And, like the kind life-rend’ring Pelican, repast them with my blood. #shakespearespecies #folio400

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MALLARD
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MALLARD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, MALLARD: Antony, claps on his sea-wing and, like a doting mallard, leaving the fight in height, flies after her.

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SWANS
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SWANS

Ben Jonson famously called Shakespeare the “sweet swan of Avon” in his elegy at the front of the First Folio.

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