Old Weather Forum

On the subject of birds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
In several civilisations of ancient Italy, particularly

Etruscan

and Roman religion, priests were involved in augury, or interpreting the words of birds while the "auspex" (from which the word "auspicious" is derived) watched their activities to foretell events.

From the largest bird to the smallest mammal... Here's an interesting

animal,

the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus). It is the smallest known extant mammal by mass, weighing only about 1.8 g (0.063 oz) on average. (The bumblebee bat is regarded as the smallest mammal by skull size and body length.) There is also a myth that they have 800 stomachs, and as a mammalian insectivore it may have venomous spit.

I would not like to be

alone

with one of those Bumblebee bats in a dark cave.

nevermore?