Birds are basically dinosaurs. Some are herbivores and eat only from plants while some are carnivores and eat only meat. While in high school, a classmate had taken a young great horned owl and put him in a chicken wire cage with a pole for a roost about shoulder high on me. I was shocked when I was there looking at the owl and the youngster staring at me, to find a pile of dead song birds, blackbirds, robins, meadowlarks, bobolinks, and several others with their heads nicely removed that fell from the end of the roost when the mother owl tried to feed her youngster through a hole in the chicken wire but missed leaving about 50 dead birds in a pile below.

Birds are very territorial, especially while nestling. The most aggressive tend to be hummingbirds.

But I agree with your allegory on diversity. We should start embracing all creeds, colors, cultures and genders without constantly trying to make one more superior or one more inferior than the other. It is infuriating to see that happen. But if one observes a busy market in a major city or a wilderness populated with a lot of birds, one will see similarities of activity that intersects without much conflict except minor squabbles over two individuals wanting the same thing at the same time.

Ron

Birds learn to fly together in a team, and they are free. We can learn a lot from the birds about team work.

Sandie

WE could a lot from birds, and nature in general. Enjoyed your thoughts.