Beaks like tweezers

Arctic Terns have beaks like tweezers.

Arctic Tern - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Or is it that tweezers are like Arctic Terns’ beaks?

It’s all part of our inversion of the metaphors, as the natural world recedes, and we become estranged from the land and from life.

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