Endangered, rare would really give people the idea of this problem and the word decline.
Answer:
Ebbs and flows in this context mean that human misery comes and goes.
Explanation:
The poem, Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold, uses the term 'ebbs and flows' to describe how human misery comes and goes. Ebbs and flows, in the context of sea movement, refers to the coming (flows) and going (ebbs) of the sea tides.
We can say that though hardships and miseries are experienced by all humans, eventually, it would all go away, drifting into the sea as we continue to live on and experience more happiness and betterment flowing in.
The stanza referred is this excerpt:
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Irascible, irascible means to be easily angered.
They explain through storytelling how things came to be or how the world came into existence.
When migrating, birds usually migrate when there's not enough food, shorting of daylight, and when it's getting colder in winter. Birds that migrate do so in the late summer through the fall and in the late winter through the spring. Birds and use a radical pair-based compass to "see" the Earth's magnetic field when migrating.
