(dedication to Gina) Don’t count your chickens before they hatch A popular quote Gina started the free online Keeping Chickens Newsletter back in early 2007. The Keeping Chickens Newsletter is an excellent resource for chicken keepers and full of like-minded people keen to share their tips, photos and experiences…
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. An Italian Proverb credit Hen Harrier or Northern Harrier (in North America) The Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) or Northern Harrier (in North America) is a bird of prey. It breeds throughout the northern parts of the northern hemisphere in Canada and…
If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. A Nikita Khrushchev quotation Lesser Prairie chicken Comparatively little seems to be known and still less has been published on the habits and distribution of the small, light-colored, bird, which is found in the Upper Sonoran Zone…
Scarce as hen’s teeth A popular quote Identify this bird I am a bird in the rail family. I have an almost worldwide distribution including deserts, tropical rain forests, and also the polar regions. I actually prefer wetlands. I have a number of related species. I’m a distinctive species, with…
Run around like a chicken with its head cut off A popular quote This type of bird is one of the most common kind of bird there is. I am also called a cock or chanticleer (Gallus gallus), the female has another very common name. Immature males of my type…
Bird Quotations and Quotes Identify this bird Birds are mentioned in many quotations, but we think little about them. I have tried to provide as many bird quotations as I can. I cannot cover them all, but I do request any quotations you may know of that are not on…
Have a chicken in every pot A popular quote This type of bird is almost certainly the most common kind of bird there is. Virtually everyone should be familiar with them, even if you live in the heart of the city where there isn’t an abundance of birds or wildlife.…
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch A popular quote This quote is dedicated to Gina Read of Keeping Chickens Newsletter. Keeping Chickens or not – Click Here!
