FUCHSIA

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    David Marjanovic said, "...Chickens are, if I don't misinterpret it,
mentioned as doing so [flapping wings rapidly while running), but I think
they're just trying to take off."

    Having been raised in a farm town, I've often seen chickens do that
while charging another chicken about to get a desirable morsel.

    Sometimes it causes the chicken nearer the morsel to 'chicken out', and
that's 'mission accomplished' for the intruder!

    Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery