The halcyon built her nest on a cliff near the ocean where she and her chicks would be safe from hunters.
One day when the halcyon left the nest to go find food for her chicks, a great ocean wave came crashing over the rocks. It swept the nest away, and the halcyon chicks all drowned.
When the mother came back to the nest, she saw what had happened.
"Woe is me!" she cried. "I was afraid of hunters on dry land so I sought refuge by the ocean, but now the cruel ocean has killed all my little chicks."
Inspired by: Mille Fabulae et Una, a collection of Latin fables that I've edited, free to read online. I am not translating the Latin here; instead, I am just telling a 100-word version of the fable.
Notes: This is fable 479 in the book, which is Perry 25.
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