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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#H"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.7</span> <span>H</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-H-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-J" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#J"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.8</span> <span>J</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-J-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-L" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#L"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.9</span> <span>L</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-L-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-M" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#M"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.10</span> <span>M</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-M-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-N" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#N"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.11</span> <span>N</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-N-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-P" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#P"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.12</span> <span>P</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-P-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-S" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#S"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.13</span> <span>S</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-S-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-W" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#W"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.14</span> <span>W</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-W-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Z" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Z"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.15</span> <span>Z</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Z-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_of_Practical_Quotations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_of_Practical_Quotations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.16</span> <span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_of_Practical_Quotations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sea_birds,_generally" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sea_birds,_generally"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2</span> <span>Sea birds, generally</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sea_birds,_generally-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Specific_types" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Specific_types"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>Specific types</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Specific_types-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Albatross" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Albatross"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1</span> <span>Albatross</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Albatross-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bird_of_Paradise" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bird_of_Paradise"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.2</span> <span>Bird of Paradise</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bird_of_Paradise-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-California_Condor" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#California_Condor"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.3</span> <span>California Condor</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-California_Condor-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Canary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Canary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.4</span> <span>Canary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Canary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cormorant" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cormorant"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.5</span> <span>Cormorant</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cormorant-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Duck" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Duck"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.6</span> <span>Duck</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Duck-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Flamingo" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Flamingo"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.7</span> <span>Flamingo</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Flamingo-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Francolin" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Francolin"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.8</span> <span>Francolin</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Francolin-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gull" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gull"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.9</span> <span>Gull</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gull-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Heron" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Heron"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.10</span> <span>Heron</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Heron-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hoopoe" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hoopoe"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.11</span> <span>Hoopoe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hoopoe-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jackdaw" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jackdaw"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.12</span> <span>Jackdaw</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jackdaw-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.13</span> <span>Jay</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Kestrel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kestrel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.14</span> <span>Kestrel</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kestrel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lapwing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lapwing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.15</span> <span>Lapwing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lapwing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Linnet" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Linnet"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.16</span> <span>Linnet</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Linnet-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Magpie" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Magpie"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.17</span> <span>Magpie</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Magpie-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mockingbird" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mockingbird"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.18</span> <span>Mockingbird</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mockingbird-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nightingale" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nightingale"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.19</span> <span>Nightingale</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nightingale-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Partridge" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Partridge"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.20</span> <span>Partridge</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Partridge-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pheasant" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pheasant"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.21</span> <span>Pheasant</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pheasant-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Quail" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quail"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.22</span> <span>Quail</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quail-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Red-winged_blackbird" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Red-winged_blackbird"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.23</span> <span>Red-winged blackbird</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Red-winged_blackbird-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rook" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rook"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.24</span> <span>Rook</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rook-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sandpiper" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sandpiper"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.25</span> <span>Sandpiper</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sandpiper-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sparrow" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sparrow"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.26</span> <span>Sparrow</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sparrow-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Thrush" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Thrush"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.27</span> <span>Thrush</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Thrush-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Western_Gull" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Western_Gull"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.28</span> <span>Western Gull</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Western_Gull-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Whip-poor-will" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Whip-poor-will"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.29</span> <span>Whip-poor-will</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Whip-poor-will-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wren" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wren"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.30</span> <span>Wren</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wren-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Yellow_Rail" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Yellow_Rail"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.31</span> <span>Yellow Rail</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Yellow_Rail-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Birds_as_dinosaurs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Birds_as_dinosaurs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Birds as dinosaurs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Birds_as_dinosaurs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table 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title="Quş – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Quş" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BF" title="পাখি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="পাখি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ptica" title="Ptica – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ptica" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ocell" title="Ocell – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" 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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikiquote</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bird&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Bird">Bird</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg/300px-Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="383" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg/450px-Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg/600px-Lamprotornis_hildebrandti_-Tanzania-8-2c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2574" data-file-height="3285" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird" class="extiw" title="w:Bird">Birds</a></b> are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda" class="extiw" title="w:Theropoda">theropod</a> <a href="/wiki/Dinosauria" title="Dinosauria">dinosaurs</a> characterized primarily by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather" class="extiw" title="w:Feather">feathers</a>, forelimbs modified as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing" class="extiw" title="w:Wing">wings</a>, and toothless beaks. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg/220px-Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg/330px-Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg/440px-Camphlorhynchus_brunneicapillus_NBII.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3081" data-file-height="2050" /></a><figcaption>I was always a lover of soft-winged things. ~ <a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a> </figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birds,_generally"><span id="Birds.2C_generally"></span>Birds, generally</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Birds, generally"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg/220px-Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg/330px-Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg/440px-Rohrammer_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1984" data-file-height="1323" /></a><figcaption>Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,<br />Why takest thou its melancholy voice,<br />And with that boding cry<br />Along the waves dost thou fly?<br />Oh! rather, bird, with me<br />Through this fair land rejoice! ~ <a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Henry Dana">Richard Henry Dana</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg/220px-Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg/330px-Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg/440px-Kanarienvogel_Golster_Fancy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1889" data-file-height="1735" /></a><figcaption>He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. ~ <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk,_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk%2C_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg/220px-Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk%2C_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk%2C_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg/330px-Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk%2C_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk%2C_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg/440px-Wei%C3%9Fsterniges_Blaukehlchen_singt_im_R%C3%B6hrichtk%2C_FHH_Rieselfelder_M%C3%BCnster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them. ~ <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="A">A</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I am the mistress, so let my birds assemble for me where the sheaves are gathered!<br />I am Nance, so let my birds assemble for me where the sheaves are gathered!<br />Let the birds of heaven and earth stand at my service!<br />Let every bird without a name bring offerings! <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanshe" class="extiw" title="w:Nanshe">Nanshe</a> and the birds", Nanshe C, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electronic_Text_Corpus_of_Sumerian_Literature" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature">The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4143.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="B">B</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Beebe" class="extiw" title="w:Charles William Beebe">Charles William Beebe</a>, <i>The Bird: Its Form and Function</i> (1906).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>   Vainly the fowler's eye <br /> Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, <br /> As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, <br />    Thy figure floats along. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant" title="William Cullen Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</a>, "To a Water Fowl", in the <i>North American Review</i> (March 1818); collected in <i>Poems</i> (1821)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Birds of a feather will gather together. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burton" title="Robert Burton">Robert Burton</a>, <i>The Anatomy of Melancholy</i> (1621), pt. 3, sect. 1, memb. 1, subsect. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="C">C</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Over increasingly large areas of the United States, <a href="/wiki/Spring" class="mw-redirect" title="Spring">spring</a> now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson">Rachel Carson</a>, <i>Silent Spring</i> (1962)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a>, <i>Don Quixote</i> (1605-15), pt. 1, ch. 4. Translated by Thomas Shelton (1612; 1620)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a>, <i>Don Quixote</i> (1605-15), pt. 1, ch. 4. Translated by Thomas Shelton (1612; 1620)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a>, <i>Don Quixote</i> (1605-15), pt. 2, ch. 74. Translated by Thomas Shelton (1612; 1620)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For birds the goal is simple—to secure a territory, to win a mate, to contribute the only lasting legacy of their brief lives—the passing on of genes to the next generation. <ul><li>Miyoko Chu, <i>Songbird Journeys</i> (2006), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8027-1518-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8027-1518-4">ISBN 0-8027-1518-4</a>, p. 93</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove,<br />The Linnet and Thrush say, "I love and I love!"<br />In the winter they're silent—the wind is so strong;<br />What it says, I don't know, but it sings a loud song.<br />But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather,<br />And singing, and loving—all come back together.<br />But the Lark is so brimful of gladness and love,<br />The green fields below him, the blue sky above,<br />That he sings, and he sings; and for ever sings he—<br />"I love my Love, and my Love loves me!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19962">Answer To a Child's Question</a></i> (1802).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="D">D</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,<br />Why takest thou its melancholy voice,<br />And with that boding cry<br />Along the waves dost thou fly?<br />Oh! rather, bird, with me<br />Through this fair land rejoice!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Henry Dana">Richard Henry Dana</a>, "The Little Beach Bird", st. 1, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/poemsandprosewr00danagoog/page/n154/mode/2up"><i>Poems and Prose Writings</i></a> (Boston, MA: Russell, Odiorne & Co., 1833), p. 136</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Dame naturis menstralis.</i> <ul><li>Dame Nature's minstrels.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavin_Douglas" title="Gavin Douglas">Gavin Douglas</a>, "Description of May", as paraphrased in Thomas Warton, <i>The History of English Poetry</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-english-p_warton-thomas_1774_2/page/292/mode/2up?q=%22Dame+Nature%27s+minstrels%22">vol. 2</a> (1778), p. 292</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence<br />He's singin' his song for me at his own expense<br />And I'm just like that bird, oh, oh<br />Singin' just for you <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, "You're a Big Girl Now", from <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Tracks" class="extiw" title="w:Blood on the Tracks">Blood on the Tracks</a></i> (1975)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="E">E</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg/220px-Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg/330px-Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg/440px-Stripe-tailed_Hummingbird.jpg 2x" data-file-width="759" data-file-height="710" /></a><figcaption>A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:20</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastes" title="Ecclesiastes">Ecclesiastes</a> 10:20 (<a href="/wiki/KJV" class="mw-redirect" title="KJV">KJV</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="G">G</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>To warm their little loves the birds complain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gray" title="Thomas Gray">Thomas Gray</a>, "Epitaph on the Death of Richard West", in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/PoemsByMr.Gray.ANewEdition_496/page/n151/mode/2up"><i>Poems</i></a>, new ed. (Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson, 1775), p. 140</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="H">H</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr" class="extiw" title="w:Ernst Mayr">Mayr</a> became a mentor for many promising young men with an interest in birds. He urged them to pick a bird, to follow and study it, to learn the secrets of its breeding life, its winter habits, to take in small details that no one else knew because no one else had ever watched so closely. Mayr argued against a stream of ornithologists who hoped to make the science entirely academic, feeling that serious amateurs could make valuable contributions to the field of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithology" class="extiw" title="w:Ornithology">ornithology</a> if they watched birds seriously and well. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyanda_Lynn_Haupt" title="Lyanda Lynn Haupt">Lyanda Lynn Haupt</a>, <i>Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds</i> (2001), ch. 5, p. 60</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The nightingale has a lyre of gold, <br />    The lark's is a clarion call, <br /> And the blackbird plays but a box-wood flute, <br />    But I love him best of all. <div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> For his song is all the joy of life, <br />    And we in the mad spring weather, <br /> We two have listened till he sang, <br />    Our hearts and lips together. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._E._Henley" class="mw-redirect" title="W. E. Henley">W. E. Henley</a> ("W. E. H."), "An Echo", in <i>The Eagle</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/eagleamagazines13goog/page/48/mode/2up">vol. 18</a> (St John's College, Cambridge, 1895), p. 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Herbert" title="George Herbert">George Herbert</a>, <i>Jacula Prudentum</i> (1651), p. 36</li></ul></li> <li>When the swallows homeward fly, <br /> When the roses scattered lie, <br /> When from neither hill or dale, <br /> Chants the silvery nightingale: <br /> In these words my bleeding heart <br /> Would to thee its grief impart; <br /> When I thus thy image lose <br /> Can I, ah! can I, e'er know repose? <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carl_Herlo%C3%9Fsohn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carl Herloßsohn (page does not exist)">Carl Herloßsohn</a>, "When the Swallows Homeward Fly". Reported in J. K. Hoyt (ed.) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.87314/page/n73/mode/2up"><i>The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations</i></a>, rev. ed. (1896), p. 42. Reported without attribution in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/beadlesdi19newy/page/n271/mode/2up"><i>Beadle's Dime Song Book</i></a> (New York: Beadle & Co., 1859), no. 5, p. 11</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Heywood" title="John Heywood">John Heywood</a>, <i>Proverbs</i> (1546), pt. 1, ch. 11</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="J">J</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.</i> <ul><li>A rare bird upon the earth, and very like a black swan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a>, <i>Satires</i> (early 2nd century), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire_VI" class="extiw" title="w:Satire VI">sat. VI</a>, 165. Translated by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fielding" title="Henry Fielding">Henry Fielding</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling" class="extiw" title="w:The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"><i>Tom Jones</i></a> (1749), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-tom-jones_fielding-henry_1749_1_0/page/196/mode/2up">vol. 1</a>, ch. 10, p. 197</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="L">L</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? <br /> Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught <br /> The dialect they speak, where melodies <br /> Alone are the interpreters of thought? <br /> Whose household words are songs in many keys, <br /> Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Tales of a Wayside Inn</i> (1863), "The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killingworth"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="M">M</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Matthew</a> 6:26 (KJV)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="N">N</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The bird is my neighbour, a whimsical fellow and dim;<br />There is in the lake a nobility falling on him.<br />The bird is a noble, he turns to the sky for a theme,<br />And the ripples are thoughts coming out to the edge of a dream.<br />The bird is both ancient and excellent, sober and wise,<br />But he never could spend all the love that is sent for his eyes.<br />He bleats no instruction, he is not an arrogant drummer;<br />His gown is simplicity - blue as the smoke of the summer.<br />How patient he is as he puts out his wings for the blue!<br />His eyes are as old as the twilight, and calm as the dew.<br />The bird is my neighbour, he leaves not a claim for a sigh,<br />He moves as the guest of the sunlight - he roams in the sky.<br />The bird is a noble, he turns to the sky for a theme,<br />And the ripples are thoughts coming out to the edge of a dream. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shaw_Neilson" title="Shaw Neilson">Shaw Neilson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/neilsonjs/poetry/crane.html">"The Crane is My Neighbor"</a>, in <i>Beauty Imposes: Some Recent Verse</i> (1938)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="P">P</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, <br /> With joyous musick wake the dawning day! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastorals_(Pope)" class="extiw" title="w:Pastorals (Pope)"><i>Pastorals</i></a>, "Spring", l. 23, in Jacob Tonson's <i>Poetical Miscellanies</i>, pt. 6 (1709)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="S">S</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In all of nature, there is no greater spectacle than the fall migration of birds. <ul><li>Robert Sargent, <i>Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</i> (1999), ch. 6, p. 71 <small>(<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8117-2688-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8117-2688-6">ISBN 0-8117-2688-6</a>)</small></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A little bird told me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2">Henry IV, Part 2</a></i> (1597–8). Last lines. See also Mahomet's pigeon, the "pious lie", <i>Life of Mahomet</i> in Library of Useful Knowledge, note p. 19. <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a>, <i>Aves</i>. See Robinson's <i>Antiquities</i>, Greek, bk. 3, ch. 15, <i>ad init.</i> Ecclesiastes 10:20. Reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 70</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And look down at the sea/And I sing 'cause I know/How it feels to be free <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Simone" title="Nina Simone">Nina Simone</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wish_I_Knew_How_It_Would_Feel_to_Be_Free" class="extiw" title="w:I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free">"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free"</a> (1967)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That byrd ys nat honest<br />That fylythe hys owne nest. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Skelton" title="John Skelton">John Skelton</a>, <i>Poems against Garnesche</i> (Harleian MS. 367, fol. 101), 3, l. 197, in Alexander Dyce (ed.) <i>Poetical Works</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59997/pg59997-images.html">vol. 1</a> (London: Levey, Robson and Franklyn, 1843), p. 125</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The worlds most frequent flyers don't have platinum status, free upgrades, or even passports. Every hour, millions of these undocumented immigrants pour across major political borders, and nobody thinks of building walls to keep them out. It would be impossible to anyway. Birds are true global citizens, free to come and go as they please. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noah_Strycker" title="Noah Strycker">Noah Strycker</a>, <i>Birding Without Borders</i> (2017), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-544-55814-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-544-55814-4">ISBN 978-0-544-55814-4</a>, </small> p. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Birds teach us that borders are just lines drawn on a map—a lesson we can all take to heart. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noah_Strycker" title="Noah Strycker">Noah Strycker</a>, <i>Birding Without Borders</i> (2017), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-544-55814-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-544-55814-4">ISBN 978-0-544-55814-4</a>, </small> p. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Between two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt,<br />Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits<br />For breath to reinspire him from the gates<br />That open still toward sunrise on the vault<br />High-domed of morning. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne" title="Algernon Charles Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a>, <i>Songs of the Spring Tides</i> (1880), introductory lines to "Birthday Ode to Victor Hugo"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="W">W</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a>, <i>The Book of the Long Sun</i>, Volume 3: <i>Caldé of the Long Sun</i> (1994), Volume 3, Ch. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Z">Z</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>That thought alone made me seek solace in chasing birds, because the one calming thing about being in their presence is the knowledge that my existence, to them, is entirely immaterial. The last thing birds care about is self-justification; they don't even notice me. <ul><li>Julia Zarankin, <i>Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder</i> (2020), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6">ISBN 978-1-77162-248-6</a>, </small> p. 164</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And here is where nature mocks you absolutely. Birds don't work on your schedule. They don't care an iota for your plans or your desires. The ridicule your fantasy that you are in control of what it is you see. They appear when they want to and disappear accordingly. <ul><li>Julia Zarankin, <i>Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder</i> (2020), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6">ISBN 978-1-77162-248-6</a>, </small> p. 209</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe in birds. I believe in their beauty, in their wisdom. I love the way they take me out of myself and enable me to live anew. I marvel at their capacity for flight, their sense of direction, their straightforward life, stripped down to the basics: eat, choose a mate, breed, protect. I gather that they don't think too much. They don't have writer’s block. They don't sit around wondering what project to take on next; they don't worry about authenticity or presenting their best selves on social media. I love birds because their lives are nothing like mine, because my anxieties would not only seem inane to them but would register as a foreign language. <ul><li>Julia Zarankin, <i>Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder</i> (2020), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6">ISBN 978-1-77162-248-6</a>, </small> pp. 213-214</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), pp. 69-70</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>I was always a lover of soft-winged things. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a>, <i>I Was Always a Lover</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, <i>Epigrams</i> (c. 80-104 AD), bk. XIV, ep. 67.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Minsheu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Minsheu (page does not exist)">John Minsheu</a> (1599).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every bird that upwards swings<br />Bears the Cross upon its wings. <ul><li>Ascribed to <a href="/wiki/John_Mason_Neale" title="John Mason Neale">John Mason Neale</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Of Garrulity</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The bird<br />That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Somervile" title="William Somervile">William Somervile</a>, <i>The Chase</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sea_birds,_generally"><span id="Sea_birds.2C_generally"></span>Sea birds, generally</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sea birds, generally"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>How joyously the young sea-mew<br />Lay dreaming on the waters blue,<br />Whereon our little bark had thrown <br /> A forward shade — the only one — <br />(But shadows aye will man pursue!) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a>, "The Sea-Mew", in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8mUEAAAAQAAJ/page/n301/mode/2up"><i>The Seraphim, and Other Poems</i></a> (1838), p. 293. Variant: <dl><dd>A little shade, the only one; <br /> But shadows ever man pursue.</dd></dl></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Up and down! Up and down!<br />From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;<br />And amidst the flashing and feathery foam<br />The Stormy Petrel finds a home,—<br />A home, if such a place may be,<br />For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,<br />On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,<br />And only seeketh her rocky lair<br />To warm her young and to teach them spring<br />At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Cornwall" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Cornwall">Barry Cornwall</a>, "The Stormy Petrel", in <i>English Songs and other Poems</i> (1844)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Yr wylan deg ar lanw dioer<br />Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,<br />Dilwch yw dy degwch di,<br />Darn fel haul, dyrnfol, heli.</i> <ul><li>O sea-bird, beautiful upon the tides,<br />White as the moon is when the night abides,<br />Or snow untouched, whose dustless splendour glows<br />Bright as a sunbeam and whose white wing throws<br />A glove of challenge on the salt sea-flood.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dafydd_ap_Gwilym" title="Dafydd ap Gwilym">Dafydd ap Gwilym</a>, "Yr Wylan" (To the Sea-gull), line 1; translation from Robert Gurney (ed. and trans.) <i>Bardic Heritage</i> (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969), p. 130</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Specific_types">Specific types</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Specific types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Albatross"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross" class="extiw" title="w:Albatross">Albatross</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Albatross"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg/220px-Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg/330px-Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg/440px-Thalassarche_bulleri_in_flight_1_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1667" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>And a good south wind sprung up behind, <br /> The Albatross did follow, <br /> And every day, for food or play, <br /> Came to the mariner's hollo! ... <br />"God save thee, ancient Mariner!<br /> From the fiends that plague thee thus!—<br />Why look'st thou so?"—With my cross-bow <br /> I shot the <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Albatross</span>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i> (1798; 1817; text of 1834), pt. 1, st. 18</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Great albatross!—the meanest birds<br /> Spring up and flit away,<br />While thou must toil to gain a flight,<br /> And spread those pinions grey;<br />But when they once are fairly poised,<br /> Far o'er each chirping thing<br />Thou sailest wide to other lands,<br /> E'en sleeping on the wing. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_G._Leland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles G. Leland (page does not exist)">Charles G. Leland</a>, <i>Perseverando</i>, reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bird_of_Paradise">Bird of Paradise</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Bird of Paradise"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop<br />About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food<br />Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood;<br />And those that under Araby's soft sun<br />Build their high nests of budding cinnamon. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a>, <i>Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 70.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="California_Condor"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_condor" class="extiw" title="w:California condor">California Condor</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: California Condor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Many condors were simply shot. No, they weren’t edible. No, their feathers weren’t prized adornments for ladies’ headgear. Despite their size, they posed no threat to humans or livestock. Yet there are nearly two hundred <i>documented</i> cases of condors that were killed for no better reason than to satisfy somebody’s perverted vanity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Dunne" title="Pete Dunne">Pete Dunne</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Dunne_(author)" class="extiw" title="w:Pete Dunne (author)">The Feather Quest</a></i> (1992), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-395-92790-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-395-92790-0">ISBN 0-395-92790-0</a>, </small> p. 300</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Canary"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Canary">Canary</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Canary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise,<br />Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,<br />With graceless toil of beak and added claw,<br />The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!<br />And this—to gratify the gloating gaze<br />Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,<br />But know to prize the infraction of her law<br />And hard perversion of her creatures' ways!<br />Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,<br />Where notes of liquid utterance should engage<br />Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Julian_Fane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julian Fane (page does not exist)">Julian Fane</a>, <i>Poems</i>, Second Edition, with Additional Poems, <i>To a Canary Bird</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sing away, ay, sing away,<br /> Merry little bird<br /> Always gayest of the gay,<br /> Though a woodland roundelay<br /> You ne'er sung nor heard;<br />Though your life from youth to age<br />Passes in a narrow cage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Craik" title="Dinah Craik">Dinah Craik</a>, <i>The Canary in his Cage</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bird of the amber beak,<br />Bird of the golden wing!<br />Thy dower is thy carolling;<br />Thou hast not far to seek<br />Thy bread, nor needest wine<br />To make thy utterance divine;<br />Thou art canopied and clothed<br />And unto Song betrothed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Clarence_Stedman" title="Edmund Clarence Stedman">Edmund Clarence Stedman</a>, <i>The Songster</i>, Stanza 2; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cormorant"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cormorant">Cormorant</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Cormorant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Cormorants are <i>hated.</i> In one popular anti-cormorant treatise, the bird is blamed for its very existence: “A war is being waged between the interests of sport fishermen and a predatory bird that has no local natural enemy. The bird’s sole purpose is to reproduce and eat fish.” Of course, obtaining food and reproducing are two primary goals of any species, including our own. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyanda_Lynn_Haupt" title="Lyanda Lynn Haupt">Lyanda Lynn Haupt</a>, <i>Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds</i> (2001), ch. 5</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Duck"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Duck">Duck</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Duck"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><div class="noprint"><i>Main article: <a href="/wiki/Duck" title="Duck">Duck</a></i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li>The voice of the duck is the glory of the <a href="/wiki/Marshes" class="mw-redirect" title="Marshes">marshes</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sumerian_proverb" class="mw-redirect" title="Sumerian proverb">Sumerian proverb</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.2.5.html">text online</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electronic_Text_Corpus_of_Sumerian_Literature" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature">The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_millennium_BCE" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:3rd millennium BCE">3rd millennium BCE</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers" title="Dorothy L. Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>, <i>Gaudy Night</i> (1936)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Flamingo"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Flamingo">Flamingo</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Flamingo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Of course the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverlands" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Neverlands">Neverlands</a> vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a <a href="/wiki/Lagoon" title="Lagoon">lagoon</a> with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very <a href="/wiki/Small" title="Small">small</a>, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Barrie" title="J. M. Barrie">J. M. Barrie</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Peter_Pan" title="Peter Pan">Peter Pan</a></i> (1904), Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Francolin"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francolin" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Francolin">Francolin</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Francolin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sumerian_proverb" class="mw-redirect" title="Sumerian proverb">Sumerian proverb</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.02.html">Collection II</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electronic_Text_Corpus_of_Sumerian_Literature" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature">The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_millennium_BCE" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:3rd millennium BCE">3rd millennium BCE</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gull"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Gull">Gull</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Gull"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gulls present a unique challenge, not only because most of them look similar, but also because plumage varies drastically depending on the age of a bird. To think that a juvenile and adult herring gull are related is to suspend disbelief in earnest. <ul><li>Julia Zarankin, <i>Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder</i> (2020), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6">ISBN 978-1-77162-248-6</a>, </small> p. 88</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Heron"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Heron">Heron</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Heron"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“That’s a great white heron,” my father told me. “As close to an angel as a bird can get.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Davis_(writer)" class="extiw" title="w:Kathryn Davis (writer)">Kathryn Davis</a>, <i>Sanna</i> in Kate Bernheimer (ed.), <i>xo Orpheus</i> (2013), p. 448</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hoopoe"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hoopoe">Hoopoe</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Hoopoe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The first time I saw one in Africa I had much the same feeling as Mr. Malik was having now. It was one of happy elation. There is something about the shape of the bird, with its long curved beak and clown’s crest, and the colour of the bird, with its bright russet plumage speckled with bands of black and white—there is even some thing about the very name of the bird—it just cheers you up. Forget the bluebird of happiness, give me a hoopoe every time. <ul><li>Nicholas Drayson, <i>A Guide to the Birds of East Africa</i> (2008), ch. 21, pp. 117-118 <small>(<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-547-24795-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-547-24795-3">ISBN 978-0-547-24795-3</a>)</small></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jackdaw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackdaw" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jackdaw">Jackdaw</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Jackdaw"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair!<br />Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,<br /> Many a monk and many a friar,<br /> Many a knight and many a squire,<br />With a great many more of lesser degree,—<br />In sooth a goodly company;<br />And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.<br /> Never, I ween,<br /> Was a prouder seen,<br />Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,<br />Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._H._Barham" class="mw-redirect" title="R. H. Barham">R. H. Barham</a>, <i>Ingoldsby Legends</i>, <i>The Jackdaw of Rheims</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 402.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them than I do." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>, <i>Thoughts on Various Subjects</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 402.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jay"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jay">Jay</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Jay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew" title="The Taming of the Shrew">The Taming of the Shrew</a></i> (c. 1593), Act IV, Scene 3, line 177.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Kestrel"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestrel" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kestrel">Kestrel</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Kestrel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>She stared out at a kestrel hovering on the wing in the distance. How little it cared for the world around it, content to drift and let the wind take it where it may. <ul><li>Hester Fox, <i>The Last Heir to Blackwood Library</i> (2023), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-525-81956-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-525-81956-8">ISBN 978-1-525-81956-8</a>, </small> p. 135</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lapwing"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapwing" class="extiw" title="w:Lapwing">Lapwing</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Lapwing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god,<br />He made the barren waste his lone abode,<br />And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er<br />The lofty palace then his own no more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Beattie" title="James Beattie">James Beattie</a>, <i>Vergil</i>, Pastoral 6; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 427.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The false lapwynge, full of trecherye. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>, <i>The Parlement of Fowles</i>, line 47; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 427.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies,<br />And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, <i>The Deserted Village</i> (1770), line 44; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 427.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs<br />Close by the ground, to near our conference. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i> (1598-99), Act III, scene 1, line 25; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 427.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Linnet">Linnet</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Linnet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?<br />Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>An Essay on Man</i> (1733-34), Epistle III, line 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough,<br /> And gay with gilded wings,<br />Perchance the patron of his vow,<br /> Some artless linnet sings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shenstone" title="William Shenstone">William Shenstone</a>, <i>Valentine's Day</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 460.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I do sing because I must,<br />And pipe but as the linnets sing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a></i> (1849), Part XXI, Stanza 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Linnets * * * sit<br />On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Thomson_(poet)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="James Thomson (poet)">James Thomson</a>, <i>The Seasons</i> (1726-30), <i>Autumn</i>, line 974.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hail to thee, far above the rest<br /> In joy of voice and pinion!<br />Thou, linnet! in thy green array,<br />Presiding spirit here to-day,<br />Dost lead the revels of the May;<br /> And this is thy dominion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>The Green Linnet</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 460.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Magpie"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie" class="extiw" title="w:Magpie">Magpie</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Magpie"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><div class="noprint"><i>Main article: <a href="/wiki/Magpie" title="Magpie">Magpie</a></i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li>So have I seen, in black and white,<br />A prating thing, a magpie hight,<br />  Majestically stalk;<br />A stately worthless animal,<br /> That plies the tongue, and wags the tail,<br />  All flutter, pride, and talk. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, "Earl of Dorset: Artemisia"</li> <li>Imitations of the English Poets</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mockingbird"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird" class="extiw" title="w:Mockingbird">Mockingbird</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Mockingbird"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg/220px-Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg/330px-Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg/440px-Mockingbird_Taking_a_Break.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="658" /></a><figcaption>I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kill" class="mw-redirect" title="Kill">kill</a> a mockingbird. ~ <a href="/wiki/Harper_Lee" title="Harper Lee">Harper Lee</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but <a href="/wiki/Remember" class="mw-redirect" title="Remember">remember</a> it's a <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kill" class="mw-redirect" title="Kill">kill</a> a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. <br /> “Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a> for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's <a href="/wiki/Gardens" title="Gardens">gardens</a>, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but <a href="/wiki/Sing" class="mw-redirect" title="Sing">sing</a> their <a href="/wiki/Hearts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearts">hearts</a> out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harper_Lee" title="Harper Lee">Harper Lee</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:To Kill a Mockingbird (novel)">To Kill a Mockingbird</a></i> (1960), Pt. 1, ch. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers,<br />Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water,<br />Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,<br />That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie</i> (1847), Part II, Stanza 2, reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 520.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool!<br />Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?<br />Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule<br />Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:<br />Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;<br />Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;<br />To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,<br />Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule! <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wilde&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Wilde (page does not exist)">Robert Wilde</a>, D.D., <i>Sonnet</i>, <i>To the Mocking-Bird</i>, reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 520.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nightingale">Nightingale</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Nightingale"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Now more than ever seems it rich to die,<br />To cease upon the midnight with no pain,<br />While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad<br />In such an ecstasy!<br />Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—<br />To thy high requiem become a sod.<p>Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!<br />No hungry generations tread thee down;<br />The voice I hear this passing night was heard<br />In ancient days by emperor and clown: </p><ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode_to_a_Nightingale" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Ode to a Nightingale">Ode to a Nightingale</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Partridge"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partridge" class="extiw" title="w:Partridge">Partridge</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Partridge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><div class="noprint"><i>Main article: <a href="/wiki/Partridge" title="Partridge">Partridge</a></i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li>Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants!<br />And ah, ye poachers!—'Tis no sport for peasants. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)" title="Don Juan (Byron)">Don Juan</a></i> (1818-24), canto 13, st. 75</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Or have you mark'd a partridge quake, <br /> Viewing the towering falcon nigh?<br />She cuddles low behind the brake: <br /> Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Prior" title="Matthew Prior">Matthew Prior</a>, "The Dove", st. 14, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_poems-on-several-occasio_prior-matthew_1718/page/n123/mode/2up"><i>Poems on Several Occasions</i></a> (1718), p. 82</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,<br />But may imagine how the bird was dead,<br />Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_2" title="Henry VI, Part 2">Henry VI, Part 2</a></i> (c. 1590-91), act 3, sc. 2, l. 191</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd<br />From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,<br />And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare,<br />Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye,<br />With greedy jawes her ready for to teare. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, <i>The Faerie Queene</i> (1589-96), Book III, Canto VIII, Stanza 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pheasant"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant" class="extiw" title="w:Pheasant">Pheasant</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Pheasant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Elyot" title="Thomas Elyot">Thomas Elyot</a>, <i>The Castle of Helth</i> (1534), ch. 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The fesant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>, <i>Natural History</i>, bk. 10, ch. 48. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philemon_Holland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philemon Holland (page does not exist)">Philemon Holland</a>'s translation (1601)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs,<br />And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:<br />Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,<br />Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor-Forest" class="extiw" title="w:Windsor-Forest"><i>Windsor-Forest</i></a> (1713), l. 111</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quail">Quail</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Quail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:California_Quail,_Orange_County,_CA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/California_Quail%2C_Orange_County%2C_CA.jpg/220px-California_Quail%2C_Orange_County%2C_CA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/California_Quail%2C_Orange_County%2C_CA.jpg/330px-California_Quail%2C_Orange_County%2C_CA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/California_Quail%2C_Orange_County%2C_CA.jpg/440px-California_Quail%2C_Orange_County%2C_CA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>I love to see quail being quail, they are so full of quailness. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde<br />And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>, <i>The Clerke's Tale</i>, line 13,541, reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 652.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A female California quail was scratching in a ground feeder outside the farm kitchen window when I washed my dinner dishes, among house finches, chickadees, sparrows. The graceful oval body looked quite large amnog the little birds. She scratched and pecked vigorously. <b>I love to see quail being quail, they are so full of quailness.</b> <ul><li>Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Hope of Rabbits" A Journal of a Writer's Week," <i>Words Are My Matter</i> (2016)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,<br />Only the empty nests are left behind.<br />And pipings of the quail among the sheaves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>The Harvest Moon</i>, reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 652.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida" title="Troilus and Cressida">Troilus and Cressida</a></i> (c. 1602), Act V, Scene 1, line 58.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Red-winged_blackbird"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_blackbird" class="extiw" title="w:Red-winged blackbird">Red-winged blackbird</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Red-winged blackbird"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“What is that?” I gasped, nearly blinded by the unexpected vermillion patches on the blackbird’s epaulets. I watched as the bird threw back its head, opened wide its beak and let out a sound so primal it left me marvelling: this was as close as I’d ever stand to dinosaurs. If this bird had been here all along, I thought, what else had I been missing? <ul><li>Julia Zarankin, <i>Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder</i> (2020), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-77162-248-6">ISBN 978-1-77162-248-6</a>, </small> p. 23</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Rook"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)" class="extiw" title="w:Rook (bird)">Rook</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Rook"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night,<br />They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,<br />And wrangle and jangle, and plunder. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Craik" title="Dinah Craik">Dinah Craik</a>, <i>Thirty Years</i>, <i>The Blackbird and the Rooks</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 677.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Invite the rook who high amid the boughs,<br />In early spring, his airy city builds,<br />And ceaseless caws amusive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Thomson_(poet)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="James Thomson (poet)">James Thomson</a>, <i>The Seasons</i>, <i>Spring</i> (1728), line 756.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where in venerable rows<br />Widely waving oaks enclose<br />The moat of yonder antique hall,<br />Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;<br />And, to the toils of nature true,<br />Wreath their capacious nests anew. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Warton" title="Thomas Warton">Thomas Warton</a>, <i>Ode X</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 677.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sandpiper">Sandpiper</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Sandpiper"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Across the narrow beach we flit,<br /> One little sand-piper and I;<br />And fast I gather, bit by bit,<br /> The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry,<br />The wild waves reach their hands for it,<br /> The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,<br />As up and down the beach we flit,<br /> One little sand-piper and I. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Celia_Thaxter" title="Celia Thaxter">Celia Thaxter</a>, <i>The Sand-Piper</i>, reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 690.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sparrow"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow" class="extiw" title="w:Sparrow">Sparrow</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Sparrow"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Tell me not of joy: there's none<br />Now my little sparrow's gone;<br /> He, just as you,<br /> Would toy and woo,<br />He would chirp and flatter me,<br /> He would hang the wing awhile,<br /> Till at length he saw me smile,<br />Lord! how sullen he would be! <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Cartwright&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Cartwright (page does not exist)">William Cartwright</a>, <i>Lesbia and the Sparrow</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 740.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud<br />Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Tales of a Wayside Inn</i> (1863-1874), <i>The Poet's Tale</i>, <i>The Birds of Killingworth</i>, Stanza 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,<br />That it had it head bit off by it young. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 235.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Behold, within the leafy shade,<br />Those bright blue eggs together laid!<br />On me the chance-discovered sight<br />Gleamed like a vision of delight. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>The Sparrow's Nest</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 740.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Thrush">Thrush</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Thrush"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,<br />In blast-beruffled plume,<br />Had chosen thus to fling his soul<br />Upon the growing gloom.<p>So little cause for carolings<br />Of such ecstatic sound<br />Was written on terrestrial things<br />Afar or nigh around,<br />That I could think there trembled through<br />His happy good-night air<br />Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew<br />And I was unaware. </p><ul><li>Thomas Hardy, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Darkling_Thrush" class="extiw" title="wikisource:The Darkling Thrush">The Darkling Thrush</a></i> (1900), from <i>Poems of the Past and Present</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Western_Gull">Western Gull</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Western Gull"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Much that is good and all that is evil has gathered itself up into the Western Gull. He is rather the handsomest of the blue-mantled<i> Laridae</i>, for the depth of color in the mantle, in sharp contrast with the snowy plumage of back and breast, gives him an appearance of sturdiness and quality which is not easily dispelled by subsequent knowledge of the black heart within. As a scavanger, the Western Gull is impeccable. Wielding the besom of hunger, he and his kind sweep the beaches clean and purge the water-front of all pollution. But a scavanger is not necessarily a good citizen. Call him a ghoul, rather, for the Western Gull is cruel of beak and bottomless of maw. Pity, with him, is a thing unknown; and when one of their own comrades dies, these feathered jackals fall upon him without compunction, a veritable <i>Leichnamveranderungsgebrauchsgesellschaft</i>. If he thus mistreats his own kind, be assured that this gull asks only two questions of any other living thing: First, "Am I hungry?" (Ans., "Yes.") Second, "Can I get away with it?" (Ans., "I'll try.") <ul><li>William Leon Dawson, <i>Birds of California</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" class="extiw" title="w:1923">1923</a></li> <li>The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Gull" class="extiw" title="w:Western Gull">Western Gull</a></b> is a common <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gull" class="extiw" title="w:Gull">gull</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific" class="extiw" title="w:Pacific">Pacific</a> coast of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" class="extiw" title="w:United States">United States</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Whip-poor-will"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip-poor-will" class="extiw" title="w:Whip-poor-will">Whip-poor-will</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Whip-poor-will"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Could the whip-poor-will or the cat of the glen/Look into my eyes and be bold? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runaway_Slave_at_Pilgrim%27s_Point" class="extiw" title="w:The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point">The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point</a></i> (published in <i>The Liberty Bell</i>, 1847-48), lines 55-56.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Irving" title="Washington Irving">Washington Irving</a>, <i>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 868.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where deep and misty shadows float<br />In forest's depths is heard thy note.<br />Like a lost spirit, earthbound still,<br />Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marie_Le_Baron&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marie Le Baron (page does not exist)">Marie Le Baron</a>, <i>The Whip-Poor-Will</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 868.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wren"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren" class="extiw" title="w:Wren">Wren</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Wren"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>, <i>Court of Love</i>, line 1,372; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 921.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I took the wren's nest;—<br />Heaven forgive me!<br />Its merry architects so small<br />Had scarcely finished their wee hall,<br />That, empty still, and neat and fair,<br />Hung idly in the summer air. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Craik" title="Dinah Craik">Dinah Craik</a>, <i>The Wren's Nest</i>; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 921.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For the poor wren.<br />The most diminutive of birds, will fight,<br />Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act IV, scene 2, line 9; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 921.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. <ul><li><i>Tatler</i>, No. 224; reported in <i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i> (1922), p. 921.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Among the dwellings framed by birds<br /> In field or forest with nice care,<br />Is none that with the little wren's<br /> In snugness may compare. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>A Wren's Nest</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Yellow_Rail"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rail" class="extiw" title="w:Yellow rail">Yellow Rail</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Yellow Rail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The bird is a <i>mouse.</i> A frustrating, feathered mouse, no more inclined to be seen by mortal eyes than your average leprechaun. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Dunne" title="Pete Dunne">Pete Dunne</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Dunne_(author)" class="extiw" title="w:Pete Dunne (author)">The Feather Quest</a></i> (1992), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-395-92790-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-395-92790-0">ISBN 0-395-92790-0</a>, </small> p. 193</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birds_as_dinosaurs">Birds as dinosaurs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Birds as dinosaurs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg/220px-Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg/330px-Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg/440px-Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center_White_Background.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3611" data-file-height="2095" /></a><figcaption>The more that we learn about these animals the more we find that there is basically no difference between birds and their closely related <a href="/wiki/Dinosauria" title="Dinosauria">dinosaur</a> ancestors like <a href="/wiki/Velociraptors" title="Velociraptors">velociraptor</a>. - Mark Norell</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bird_Diversity_2011.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bird_Diversity_2011.png/220px-Bird_Diversity_2011.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bird_Diversity_2011.png/330px-Bird_Diversity_2011.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Bird_Diversity_2011.png/440px-Bird_Diversity_2011.png 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="785" /></a><figcaption>Imagine, if you will, a world filled with billions of dinosaurs... The thing is, you don't have to imagine very hard... For the dinosaurs are the birds and they are all around you. - John Pickrell</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg/220px-Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg/330px-Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg/440px-Feathered_non-avian_Maniraptora.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2372" data-file-height="2444" /></a><figcaption>You can distinguish birds <i>among</i> dinosaurs, but it is no longer possible to distinguish birds <i>from</i> dinosaurs. - <a href="/wiki/Aron_Ra" title="Aron Ra">Aron Ra</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I do not believe birds deserve to be put in a taxonomic class separate from dinosaurs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker" title="Robert T. Bakker">Robert T. Bakker</a>, "Dinosaur Renaissance", <i>Scientific American</i> 232, no. 4 (April 1975), 58—78</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker" title="Robert T. Bakker">Robert T. Bakker</a>, "Dinosaur Renaissance", <i>Scientific American</i> 232, no. 4 (April 1975), 58—78</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The more that we learn about these animals the more we find that there is basically no difference between birds and their closely related dinosaur ancestors like <a href="/wiki/Velociraptors" title="Velociraptors">velociraptor</a>. Both have wishbones, brooded their nests, possess hollow bones, and were covered in feathers. If animals like velociraptor were alive today our first impression would be that they were just very unusual looking birds. <ul><li>Mark Norell, as quoted in American Museum of Natural History "Velociraptor had feathers" <i>ScienceDaily</i> (September 20, 2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If not for the long tail, one might mistake a theropod for a big, toothy, marauding bird in the dark. That theropods are birdlike is logical, since birds are their closest living relatives. Remember that next time you eat a drumstick or scramble some eggs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Scott_Paul" title="Gregory Scott Paul">Gregory Scott Paul</a> (1988), <i>Predatory Dinosaurs of the World</i>, Simon and Schuster, p. 22</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When it was assumed that birds did not evolve from dinosaurs, it was correspondingly presumed that their <a href="/wiki/Flight" title="Flight">flight</a> evolved among climbers that first glided and then developed powered flight. This has the advantage that we know that arboreal animals can evolve powered flight with the aid of gravity, as per bats. When it was realized that birds descended from deinonychosaurs, many researchers switched to the hypothesis that running dinosaurs learned to fly from the ground up. This has the disadvantage that it is not certain whether it is practical for tetrapod flight to evolve among ground runners working against gravity.<br />The characteristics of birds indicate that they evolved from dinosaurs that had first evolved as bipedal runners, and then evolved into long armed climbers. If the ancestors of birds had been entirely arboreal, then they should be semiquadrupedal forms whose sprawling legs were integrated into the main airfoil, like bats. That birds are bipeds whose erect legs are separate from the wings indicates that their ancestors evolved to run. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Scott_Paul" title="Gregory Scott Paul">Gregory Scott Paul</a> (2010), <i>The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs</i>, Princeton University Press, p. 52</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Imagine, if you will, a world filled with billions of dinosaurs. A world where they can be found in thousands of shapes, sizes, colours and classes in every habitable pocket of the planet. Imagine them from the desert dunes of the Sahara to the frozen rim of the Antarctic Circle - and from the balmy islands of the South Pacific to the high flanks of the Himalayas. The thing is, you don't have to imagine very hard. In fact, wherever you live, you can probably step outside and look up into the trees and skies to find them. For the dinosaurs are the birds and they are all around you. Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago. <i>Everything you were told as a child was wrong</i>. <ul><li>John Pickrell (2014), <i>Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds</i>, Columbia University Press, p. xv</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From nesting, brooding and sex, to metabolism, development and even the diseases that afflicted them, many of the traits found in birds today were inherited from the dinosaurs. The boundary between dinosaurs and birds has become utterly blurred. <ul><li>John Pickrell (2014), <i>Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds</i>, Columbia University Press, p. xvii</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every feature that is known to exist in every bird universally accepted as such is also found on dinosaurs: four-chambered heart, fused caudal vertebrae, gastroliths, even the avian respiratory system have all been found on fossil theropods, especially dromaeosaurs and maniraptors. You can distinguish birds <i>among</i> dinosaurs, but it is no longer possible to distinguish birds <i>from</i> dinosaurs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aron_Ra" title="Aron Ra">Aron Ra</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZeowON8l8">"Geerup's Terrible Lizard Classification"</a>, <i>YouTube</i> (July 28, 2009)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I needed the birds worse & worse as I got older<br />as if some crack had opened in the human scheme of things<br />& only birds with their sharp morning notes<br />had the sense for any new day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naomi_Shihab_Nye" title="Naomi Shihab Nye">Naomi Shihab Nye</a>, Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Birds&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="float:left; 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