Don’t the wounded bird still sing

Common Nighthawk

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.…

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My father told me all about the birds…

Red-bellied Woodpecker

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 •…

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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles…

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…

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Republicans study the financial pages…

black-bellied-whistling_duck

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.…

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