Avian Behavior Quotes

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.

At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

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

[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

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

Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.