Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.
I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
Memphis—it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.
I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can't fly
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go.
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.
They're not chicks. They're ducks.
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.
