Wanted alive
In New Zealand, birders are searching for the maybe (or maybe not) extinct orange-wattled South Island kakapo.
South & North Island Kokakos
By J. G. Keulemans, in W.L. Buller’s A History of the Birds of New Zealand, 2nd edition, published 1888 Image courtesy of http://www.commons.wikimedia.org
More about the elusive South Island kokako at http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38757748
I don’t know if you’re alive or dead
I don’t know if you’re alive or dead –
Can you be found on earth so?
Or only in twilit thoughts instead,
Be mourned, in that peaceful glow?
All for you: the prayer by day,
The hot sleeplessness at night,
The white flock of poetry,
And the blue fire of my eyes…
from I don’t know if you’re alive or dead, by Anna Akhmatova