Avian flu or H5N1 is still primarily a disease among animals, … Human deaths have been almost exclusively among humans who came into contact with infected birds. The virus has not shown itself to be...

Doesn’t look like much, does he?” murmurs Frederick. “Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.” The wagtail...

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world...

There’s bird shit on my toilet paper, and my asshole stings from such a long flight.

A flash of harmless lightning,A mist of rainbow dyes.The burnished sunbeams brighteningFrom flower to flower he flies;While wakes the nodding blossomBut just too late to seeWhat lip hath touched her bosomAnd drained her rosary.

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren’t pretty or delightful, but they were magical, […] They called...

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds!

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from...

I’m not prepared for Rue’s family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock...

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

Consider my Lover; the yellow churchof his skin, the clean wells of his ears;How the notes of a song come to himlike birds descending on a power line;How in his absence I am of twothroats–each...

It’s a very small object to be capable of doing many wonderful things, don’t you think?””It does much more that that,” Valkyrie said, opening up a game and showing it to him.His eyes widened. “What...

In my dream I was a seal, and I made love to a seagull. Then I got eaten by a shark, because that’s just the way life is. Some fish gets jealous over a bird,...

When the door to the exhibit opened, it was quite something to watch 10 of these spectacular birds waddle down the hall and into their new home.

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to...

It would be nice to find a ‘planet of trees and birds’ in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

We get very few quail. The last ones we got were domesticated birds that had gotten loose.

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed...

Gerremoffme!” he yelled, but with one last look of vindictive fury, Hermione wrenched open the door and disappeared through it. Harry thought he heard a sob before it slammed.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we...

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

A bush-warbler,Coming to the verandah-edge,Left its droppingsOn the rice-cakes.

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray’s River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places....

A number of samples have to be taken from both wild and domestic birds in each member state, and the type of tests that will be done.

Oh yes,” said Jana. “You want the birdbath.” She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he dipped his head, lowered his chest into the water, and raised it. Having...

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

Hey Chris, bet you don’t know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.”That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.

I’d make a better lover than a dead bird. Probably.

Maybe one day I could fly all over the world and meet other interesting birds.

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but...

Birds are flying over the garden. What are you doing inside the house? Join them! If you can’t join them, at least open the window and greet them!

A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It’s like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one—it’s too much!

Newly-born books are like birds… they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15

We would only order the housing of birds if there was an outbreak in this country.

I know my breasts, smallas plums, would win no blue ribbons.But in your hands they tremble and fillwith song like plump, white birds.

When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls.

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament.

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large… if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and...

Birds feed; then they nest. Paint them any color you want, send them halfway around the world, but they’ll always find a way back. And eventually they’ll show their true colors again.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the...

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone’s horizon sweeps someone else’s. We are only noticed...

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die