This article made me feel really sad about kingfishers possibly not knowing how beautiful they are. Which is shameless anthropomorphism: of course they don’t!
I’m not very special
My feathers are brown
I’m nobody really
I flit up and down
By the river, catch fish
With my long pointy beak
I do not stand out
I’ve no interesting plumage
To speak of. I’m just
One more little brown bird.
You say that I’m beautiful?
Don’t be absurd!
Tom Juniper Poetry 