Mourning Dove

Read an article on the newest viral  'bird theory' this morning.  A TikTok user stated that white people all have some sort of bird decor in their homes.  According to that article multiple people commented that they didn't think they had anything w/ birds until they looked around and realized they had a lamp w/ a peacock base or rubber duckies dressed in various costumes on a shelf or were gifted something that had a bird motif on it.  I did just come inside from filling the outside bird feeders but not sure that counts.  It's winter so I have some small decorative plates w/ cardinals and titmouse birds hanging near the fireplace.  I thought about what I put out during the spring.  Yes, I have bird figurines I put in a shadow box in the spare bedroom.  How about summer?  Definitely.  Sister Connie gave me a peacock vase and I always put it atop the clock w/ a spray of real peacock feathers.  Autumn?  An orange hand painted (by Sister Connie again) owl that I usually set in among the house plants.  The obvious next question is "Is it white people or people in general that like birds?"   I'm guessing it's the latter - ethnicity has little to do w/ it.  The caves of Lascaux France have paintings of birds from 17,000 years ago.  Ancient Egyptians were big into bird motifs.  The god Thoth had the head of an Ibis, Horus the head of a falcon, and Nekhbet was a vulture.  Chinese art often depicts cranes, Mandarin ducks, and magpies.  It's easy to recognize the unique birds of Australia featured in Aboriginal figurines and other art forms.  The only thing the 'bird theory' teaches us is that you can make anything go viral just by adding some titillating overtones to it.