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...

Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against...

I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention. Gettysburg? a soldier so mad with shock that he started burying...

The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. “I...

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don’t leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best; you were created to use every gift in you!

She was suppose to be mine. I hers. We were suppose to be like the birds.

Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes standsas if considering how to cool avian plastic,dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;how take flight on dayglow flap-doodle wings, no matterif it is ball-bald going nowhere...

With birds flying around, man’s desire for having wings rises to infinite!

Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there’s no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do...

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

It’s worth remembering that the Netherlands and Germany both unnecessarily housed their birds in September last year at great expense, only to later let them out again.

…a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab...

San Diego County residents, especially those in the North County where most of the infected birds have been found, need to take personal protection measures.

Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:It listens, listens. Taller trees beyondListen. The moon at the unruffled pondStares. And you sing, you sing.That star-enchanted song falls through the airFrom lawn to lawn down terraces...

I don’t know [why we’re here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And...

Newborn babies can’t do much on their own-They can’t eat or walk or talk on the phone-But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation.

…a murder of crows gormandized until they were satiated.

We need to be aware that there’s a real risk for Europe when the birds migrate northwards this spring.

We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, ‘Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.’ Then he told me he once...

‘Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.’ We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us,...

I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them just missing the sparrows’ toss and tumble fly away. The couple survived to try it again next...

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn...

We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We wanted their feathers to bud from...

And I said, ‘A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could’ve had you?’ And he said, ‘Because when he sings … even the birds stop to listen.

The Commission has been informed by the European Union reference laboratory … that the virus isolated in wild birds in Croatia is indeed the H5N1 virus.

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

Here is the door of my mom’s house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together...

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

Any day above ground is a good one. A woman’s beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye...

We were suppose to be like the birds.

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a...

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to...

Spread your wings and fly

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

The last 33 years of my life have been a blur, like a hummingbird’s beating wings. Time flies, but not backwards, like a hummingbird can.

A glimpseof my feathers.Show too much and they’ll tear you apartBird of ParadiseBorn in the trenchesFacing the mouth of a gun.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

Mercury starts barkingat a bunch of colourful parrots sitting in the bending fennel. I let him off the leash, and they twitter and fly away, points in a moving constellation.Dad used to say Aussie birds...

Tú, pájaro, vivirás en los árboles y volarás por los aires, alcanzarás la región de las nubes, rozarás la transparencia del cielo y no tendrás miedo de caer.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

The birds fly south for the winter not because it’s cold, but because they have wings. Similarly, love has the ultimate flight pattern, and that pattern is plaid.

Some friends are like birds, who never leave you when you are alone.

O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work.”Shay shrugged. “Being a bird’s probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?