'With moulting hawks all around squawking their forlorn chorus of "I'm No Longer Such An Ugly Duckling", it's tempting to join the mass ecdysis'
'Ecdysis' is the molting
of the cuticula in arthropods and related groups (Ecdysozoa)
as in cockroach
Now don't go bad mouthing cockroachs - after all, it is the State Bird of the Sheeples Republic of FloriDUH.