You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren A William Henry Hudson quotation This bird is the eastern representative of a widely distributed species that has been subdivided into 12 additional subspecies in western North America. It’s breeding range, is from southeastern Nebraska, northern Illinois, southern…
The bluebird carries the sky on its back A Henry David Thoreau quotation This bird is well named, for he has a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail. There is no North American bird that better deserves the name. There is no…
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…
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow An old Greek proverb These birds appear in North America and northeastern Siberia; casual in Berinuda, and accidentally in Sweden. The flight of these birds (when grown) is powerful and impressive, but not so graceful or…
When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters A Milton S. Gould quotation Identify this bird These birds have always been looked upon as emblems of power and valor. Its soaring flight, with its pure-white head and tail glistening in the sunlight, is really inspiring and a sight…
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw … A famous quotation A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird? Identify this…
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud A Carl Sandburg quotation Identify this bird I am a very large bird of prey, with a length of 76-90 cm (30-36 in), an average weight…
You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle A Bill Clinton quotation Identify this bird I am sometimes known as the American …. I am a Neotropical species of my type. I am the only member of the genus Harpia. I am the largest…
