Bird CPR
Oversized moocher sponges from false parent
Origin of Angry Birds
Cowbirds get others to raise their young
Song Sparrows raise cowbirds because they incubate their eggs. Cowbirds do not build their own nests. Instead, they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. The “host” birds incubate the cowbird eggs and raise the chicks. Biologists call cowbirds “brood parasites.”
QuotaBillsThe early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb
Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb
I want to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Wishing to be a bird so you can Fly Away. - Unknown
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake
The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. - Abdul Kalam
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel
The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb
Egg: 1. A day's work for a hen; 2. A bird's hometown. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore
Impeccable: 1. Having immunity to woodpeckers; 2. Hidden from birds. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle
Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. - Steven Wright
I know of only one bird (the parrot) that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz
Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali
Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings
Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D Roosevelt
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck
I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. - Mark Nepo
Mosquito: 1. A small insect designed by God to make us think better of flies; 2. The state bird of New Jersey. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent
You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche
It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. - Julie Murphy
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork
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. - Robert Lynd
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge