Famous Quotes & Sayings

It allows us to keep track of the population and monitor the various numbers of birds each year.

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.

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.

Pablo Neruda

I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated /that had been sleeping in your soul.

James Harris

Parent birds normally shade the young during the day,

Louis MacNeice

Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

When I was a kid I was always thinking about the planes and birds overhead and I would never win a match.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Bjarke Ingels

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

Wilbur Smith

I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

We're averaging about 30 percent mortality per year, or 70 percent of birds released are surviving. For the population to survive on its own, we need survival to be 90 percent. As the population builds, we're hoping that mortality decreases.

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 need to step up control to reduce contact between wild birds and poultry, and also contact between humans and wild birds.

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.

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.

Morrie Schwartz

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

When the entire region is affected, how can we say how many birds are hit? We are taking no chances and we will cull all the birds in all the farms.

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.

Finding birds is a critical part of the recovery process and we're hoping for some exciting news.

Phillip Thomas

But once they heard there was gas up here, they came Sunday and Monday and we had more hunters. I wish the birds would have been the same way. We had plenty on Saturday but they were scarce the next two days.

Greg Davis

We're the three early birds on the staff.

Trying to get one of those birds and the snails together is problematic. So I suspect that some type of wading bird, with a cargo of stowaway snails tucked into its feathers, was blown off course by a storm and deposited the snails on these islands.

With all this rain and the wet weather, we already have mosquitoes developing and adults flying. There are eight positive birds in the state and half of them are here.

We understand the stresses on caribou and birds in a much better way than we used to. We can mitigate those disturbances.

We have sent teams of microbiologists to the places where large-scale deaths of birds have taken place.