Hummingbirds have forgotten the words.. Graffiti at Adelaide, SA – author unknown credit + large image Broad-billed Hummingbird The Broad-billed Hummingbird, Cynanthus latirostris, is a medium-sized hummingbird. It is 9–10 cm long, and weighs approximately three to four grams. The breeding habitat is in arid scrub of southeastern Arizona-(the Madrean…
Words are heavy like rocks…they weigh you down. If birds could talk, they wouldn’t be able to fly Marilyn, from the TV show ‘Northern Exposure’ credit + large image Spotted Sandpiper The Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species, the Common Sandpiper (A. hypoleucos)…
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. A Chinese proverb credit + large image Northern Shoveler The Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata), sometimes known simply as the Shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. Like most dabbling ducks, it stands well…
Young people on a lark might keep in mind that all birds, except cuckoos, build their nests before hatching their eggs. An anonymous/unknown author credit + large image Tree Swallow The Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, is a migratory passerine bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico, Central…
One robin doesn’t make a spring, but one lark is often responsible for a fall An old quote credit + large image Skylark The Skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small passerine bird species. This lark breeds across most of Europe and Asia and in the mountains of north Africa. The…
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. A Germaine Greer quotation credit + large image Gilded Flicker The Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large-sized woodpecker of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert…
If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be cleaver enough to be crows. A Rev. Henry Ward Beecher quotation credit + large image The Pied Crow The Pied Crow (Corvus albus) is a widely distributed African bird species in the crow genus. The Pied Crow…
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. An Ivan Turgenev quotation large image Red-necked Grebe The Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps grisegena, is a migratory aquatic bird that is found in…
