Nesting Habits Quotes

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.