IT IS PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OFWINGED ANCESTORS OF MODERN BIRDS WITH SHORT COMMENTS IN BOTH ENGLISH AND HINDI IN POETIC FORMAT DESCRIBING THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF EACH ONE FROM PROTOAVIS ONWARDS -THE FIRST SIX IN THIS PART.
2. Transitionalforms First Dino Bird 2
A small dinosaur looking like a bird
a paravian with wings and feathers
a nocturnal fellow with teeth in my beak
a tall avialan with bony tail of Triassic times
Used to perch on trees like any bird well neigh
in the Americas Texas in the hoary past O-hai
a Grand Ancestor of ancestors of all the birds.
I am Protoavis the first the very first bird like guy.
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Epidexipteryx hui
We are amongst thefirstfew birdlikereptiles
Birdlike-Yes- but not birds quiteyet ,one may visualise
which roamed Chinasjungles in ancienttimes
Known for our fancyfeathersloved by Dr Hui
still–Oh!what a tragedy- we can’t fly
We have feathers but none in our wings bhai
So we keep hopping& jumpinghere and there
displayingour lovely feathersall the time.
6. Transitionalforms
The Dawn bird of China
We are the someof the earliestbirdlikeguys
which roamed acrossChinain Jurassictimes
Of small bodysmall beak and tail smallwings
hopping jumping all aroundtrees all the while
oh ! how we wish we could also fly.
We are paraviansof course
with teeth in our beaks as usual
but even experts are unableto say
to which familywe belongany way.
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Anchiornis huxlei
Jet black with a red ‘ crown’ on our heads
decoratedwith white runningstripeson wings
covered with hairs alloverfrom head to tail
we flaunta long tail and all the four wings
yet require help of patagium in order to fly
unlikemanyothers but likeAurornis bhai
We are of courseparavianreptiles
and likethem bird -likebut not birds.Ohai .
11. Aurornisxui
We are also paraves– Birdlikebut not birds
full of feathersallover bodyfrom head to tail
with claws not onlyon feet but wing tips as well
along with somereptilianand someavianfeatures
a linkbetween reptiles and birds likeother dinobirds
of Anchiornistype and lived in the very same times.
Transitionalforms
13. Serikornis – The Silk ‘bird’
Good looking , covered all over with silkyfeathers
nicknamed‘ Silky’ for that reasonby others
dressed with threetype of feathers
and equipped with as many as four wings
we only keep hopping and jumpinglikehens all over
parashooting from the branches at the most
for alas ! we can not fly ,not even treetopsover .