A unique species it is verily, whose protected status is so exceptionally well respected that it not only thrives, but prodigiously proliferates in this place.

Indeed, it flourishes in such abundant numbers that it threatens to supplant the hitherto unassailable emblematic primacy of the fabled falcon or even Il-Merill itself.

This ascendant specimen unquestionably merits special designation as an endemic breed: The Maltese Crane!

Oisin Jones-Dillon

St Paul’s Bay