Don’t the wounded bird still sing? A Sheryl Crow quotation Common Nighthawk The Common Nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, is a nightjar. Their breeding habitat is open country across North America. They usually nest on bare ground, sometimes in raised locations including stumps or gravel roofs and in burned out forest floors.…
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar – I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. A Bob Hope quotation Red-bellied Woodpecker The Red-bellied Woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, is a medium-sized woodpecker of the Picidae family. Identification Tips: • Length: 8.5 inches •…
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. A David Letterman quotation Golden-crowned Kinglet The Golden-crowned Kinglet, Regulus satrapa, is a very small songbird. In coniferous forests across Canada, the northeastern and western United States, Mexico and Central America is…
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. A John Webster quotation Little Auk The Little Auk, or Dovekie (Alle alle), is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. It breeds on islands in the high Arctic. This is the only Atlantic auk of its size,…
Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage. A Will Stanton quotation The Black-bellied Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis), formerly also called Black-bellied Tree Duck, is a whistling-duck that breeds from the southernmost United States and tropical Central to south-central South America.…
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings A William Blake quotation This bird, with its various races, is the most widely distributed, most universally common, and best known of all our birds of prey. It is found in North and Central America and the islands…
