JAN 2, waterfowl: willets

 a) Reprise of material posted on January 2 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, walkability, Mt Pleasant (puzzle-map)  

2021: waterfowl, great egrets (photo-collage)
2022: etymology, dollar (illustrated poem)

2023: word-pairs, alliterative binomials A-B (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Jan 2, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ John Audubon's yen: what could fill it?/ That 'dull' shorebird

 -- grey body, black bill. It/ Has 'tasty' bird eggs,/ Juicy bird's breasts and legs./

 It's still safe from extinction -- the willet (Our forebears endeavored to kill it). 

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.