Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a new opportunity, and they're not an easy bird to get. It's a challenge.

These birds would have been after the most vulnerable members of the group.

These birds used to nest on all the major shorelines in the state, but what's on those shorelines now homes, golf courses. These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

(The boy) died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

As long as the bird flu has yet to be stopped, no transport is allowed,

As long as we're dealing only with migratory birds being found here and there, I don't think it's a big deal, frankly. The big issue is if we start to have domestic poultry infected. Then it would start to be a problem ... a higher risk for transmission to humans.

Brett Keisel

That's what I've heard, that I'm the priority. A little birdie told me that, but birds can bring all kinds of different messages, so who knows?

We've never seen so many outbreaks of the same virus in so many different regions. Our concern obviously is that humans could potentially come into contact with birds infected with H5N1, which would mean populations worldwide are potentially at risk.

We got a lot of rain from the hurricane and started the season off real good, then it moderated and we didn't do as well. But you have to remember that by the time the birds get this far south they have a Ph.D. in survival.

We cannot just cull all birds which are infected or close to being infected without giving them something.

Alan Feduccia

The whole thing had become circular -- birds are dinosaurs, so whatever we find on dinosaurs that looks like a rudimentary feather has got to represent the origin of feathers.

The vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. By God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.

These are the wintering birds from Canada they think this is the warm spot.

Randy Harrison

With goalie it speaks of the individual. You have to work hard to play that position. It takes a different bird to be a keeper. He put in a lot of extra time.

You have to test the birds and test the water. If you find it in a lake, influenzas can hang around for a month. Some studies have shown it staying over 200 days.

We target the bird-nesting islands. The birds bring the line in from the Gulf fishing piers.

There's going to be another influenza pandemic. History teaches us that. We don't know if the current bird flu is the start of that, we don't know when it will hit. It could happen soon or it might be years off,

There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the court like was the case last year. The impact they're going to have is now going to be in the college game.

The transmission link between migrating birds and domestic ones has to be cut off before the virus has a chance to get into a host.

The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.

The United States is a huge country. There are millions of birds on the move -- but we're going to work smart.

I should make clear from the outset that we do not know if the bird virus we are seeing overseas will ever become ... a pandemic.

We monitor the situation and we have not discovered any unconventional respiratory diseases in humans suggesting bird flu infection. Monitoring is underway in all districts of southern Russia. Luckily, no confirmed bird flu cases in humans have been reported.

Around 500,000 birds will be killed. It is confirmed the deaths were caused by the H5N1 strain.

The Ministry of Public Health provided timely information on the country's human infection cases of bird flu and held three news briefings on the epidemic within two months, which created a favorable environment for bird flu prevention and control.

The mild temperatures of early January have made eagle viewing excellent this year. Open water has held Ohio birds and enticed northern birds to winter over, giving us a tremendous count this year.

The issue about contact with wild birds is, in fact, a wild goose chase.

The feather structure is unmistakable. You see a central shaft, and then veins or barbs coming off the side. It is identical to a modern bird feather. It was even obvious to my 3-year-old daughter.

The countries concerned and the international community have to make every effort to ensure that bird flu does not become endemic in Africa.

The Canadian poultry industry is, in general, little dependent on exports or imports, but new provincial rules forcing the confinement of birds make the practice of free-range raising more difficult.

In humans, the H5N1 bird flu takes about two weeks to kill, so there is time for T cells to come out and give protection.

In birds this is a disease of biblical proportions and it is difficult to control in a setting where people depend on poultry as a major source of protein for growing children.

It's purely precautionary. I always said that if bird flu got as far as Germany, I would put the birds inside.