Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

We have chosen sites and species of birds that we think are the most likely ones that contact birds over in the Russian Siberian side that have the potential to migrate and make contact with birds in North America.

We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Migratory birds are the main distributors on the international scale and there is no way to stop them. Locally, migratory fowl and the trade in live and recently dead poultry keep it in circulation, too.

Migratory birds are innocent bystanders. I don't doubt (they're) moving the virus. I just don't think they're the primary movers.

Migratory birds are being blamed, but once poultry has been infected, it can spread from town to town, especially if people buy the infected poultry.

Wild birds seem to be one of the main avian influenza carriers, but more research is urgently needed to fully understand their role in spreading the virus,

When the birds realize that they are being chased away every day, they stop coming after a while. They don't want to molt here.

You bring the gun up, and if you see orange, you don't pull the trigger. I guess he got caught up in the frenzy of the birds going up.

It didn't originate from multiple ships, it originated from one ship. It looks that we may be leaning towards the traditional bilge oils that impacted these birds or impacted these shores.

I thought, 'If I could find a book about Iowa, I could kill two birds with one stone.' I'd find something I'd enjoy and that they'd enjoy.

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

We get birds in, eagles that were banded 35 years ago that are shot and taken out of the environment which is very sad.

The only real finding was that it was progressively less severe, the more neighbors the birds had. It reinforces this general message of how important physical and social enrichment for these birds really is. Well thought-out physical and social environments should be first thing we think of.

Mariella Frostrup

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.

Nigel: Hi there. Sorry if I took a snap at you at one time. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.

I was solicited to move to Florida and the Carolinas, but nobody ever gave me a presentation as to how me moving to any other region of the country was going to be better for the earnings of Birds Eye.

Orville Wright

If birds can glide for long periods of time, then why cant I ?

Globally, the evidence demonstrates that there is no risk of infection when birds and eggs are well cooked, as this kills the virus.

Joe Johnson

If it gets into the wild birds and then it gets into the domestic poultry, then we've got a very direct contact between humans and infected birds.

If it's just a few sporadic birds dying off, people are then exposed and then get sick and die -- it means it's a very difficult thing to stop when it's on a small scale.

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could be infected. Now we have seen it in Greece and Italy and now Germany. It is spreading all over Europe.

Irwin Redlener

Within the next six months, we'll have infected birds in the U.S..

We're in the middle of our migration season now where birds are flying. Are they going to bring it back to the Midwest on their flight patterns, we don't know. They're monitoring the birds closely--Alaska is the primary spot where they're watching the birds because it's the closest point where we would see contact.

He wanted to make sure the birds would still be there when he got back.

Kofi Annan

If they are not compensated, they are not going to tell you whether their birds are sick. If other pandemics have taught us anything, it is that silence is deadly.

We have no idea how she got it. We visited her neighborhood and found no poultry or caged birds near her house.

We also worry that birds will stop off in some of the U.S. territories in the Pacific like Guam, and Hawaii.