Breeding Season Quotes

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

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.

They're not mating are they?

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

As millions of people know, one of the great pleasures of walking in areas of the uplands managed for grouse is to see and hear large numbers of curlew, lapwing and golden plover - all ground-nesting birds largely absent or in rapidly declining numbers elsewhere.

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

All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.