The female lily trotter on the pond
Has many broods, all cared for by their dads,
Each knowing it’s her nature to abscond,
Light-footedly across the lily pads
In search of other males, as soon as she’s
Laid eggs. Most mother birds will tend a brood,
Yet lily trotter wisdom disagrees:
Their single parenting is by the dude.
Remarkably, this dad sits on the eggs.
Once they are hatched, he rears the chicks alone,
Then totes them, under wing, on gangly legs,
Till they can better manage on their own—
Exemplary parental care … His tale
Reveals the feathered world’s most caring male!