God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest A P. D. James quotation This bird, Tachycineta bicolor, is a migratory passerine bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. It is a very rare vagrant to…
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. A Mark Twain quotation Paradisaea apoda, This bird, is a large, up to 43cm long, maroon brown bird with a yellow crown, dark emerald green throat and blackish brown breast cushion. The male is adorned with…
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings A C. Archie Danielson or Salvador Dalí quotation (research shows these two different people as author) This bird (Surnia ulula) is a medium sized bird. It has a falcon-like wing shape and long tail. It is the only living species in the…
One swallow does not make a summer An idiom and a quotation These birds and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterized by their adaptation to aerial feeding. Because of the readiness with which some species nest in and around human settlements and…
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. A John Berry quotation This bird, Cicinnurus respublica, is a small, up to 21cm long or less, passerine bird of the Paradisaeidae family. The male is a red and black bird with a yellow mantle on its…
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. A Jacques Deval (1890-1972) quotation; a French playwright and director The charming little bird is a bird of Tropical and Lower Sonoran Zones and occurs in the United States only in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.…
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck A well known quotation This black bird has long been valued as a game bird. It flies pretty fast so it can be a…
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. A Robert Lynd quotation In the elevated and arid, or semi-arid, plains, extending northward into southern Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas…
