predatory birds Quotes

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.

A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

The significant owl hoots in the night.

The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.