Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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.

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

We have sent teams of microbiologists to the places, where flocks of birds were found dead.

Stuart Appleby

The par-five I made a nice little five-foot birdie putt. That was a sneaky one down the hill. Then I chipped in from over the back of the green on six. It was a very difficult chip and it went in. That was a very fortunate shot there because I really was thinking four would be a good score to walk away with, so three was a bonus.

William Dampier

The petrel is a bird not much unlike a swallow, but smaller, and with a shorter tail. It is all over black, except a white spot on the rump.

We've got three new birds that are going up. I'm using all my clout, rapport and lobbying to, hopefully, have them at least fly calibration runs over Mt. Ararat.

We've had our bird feeder smashed a couple of times, but we never saw what it was. We kind of figured it was a bear,

Rachel Carson

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Up to 10km away, all the birds have been killed.

We will probably learn a lot about bird migration by discovering where the H5N1 virus crops up.

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.

William Cowper

There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow.

There is a better chance of a person winning the national lottery than catching bird flu in the UK today.

John Lennon

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Thomas made birdie there and I thought, 'Here we go. It's down the stretch now'. But I've been in that position before and decided to just try and make my par at the last and let Thomas try and come at me. Fortunately it worked out.

Confucius

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.

We had a strong first 10 minutes and the rest of the first half was very ordinary. Mentally and physically we just weren't there, and we only had ourselves to blame for that. The second half was better but the bird had flown by then.

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.

Dromaeosaurs are really interesting because they are so close to birds in evolution, having feathers and other, similar attributes.

Especially if they don't have feathers. The birds we worry about, they're not fully feathered. The youngsters are still fluffy downy.

During the treatment, we found out he owned a chicken coop and that some of his birds had died in recent days. We took samples from the man and he was isolated.

Florida is going to be a tough ticket. When the snow hit the Northeast early this winter, the snow birds came out early and made their reservations.

Mariella Frostrup

First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.

Even if we did have an outbreak, which is unlikely, it's going to be very limited. And the number of birds involved will be very small.

Even so, the health ministry has confirmed that the six died of bird flu. Tests in Hong Kong are for the purpose of WHO's record.

Birds play a role in the primary infection of the country, but then after that there's no need for wildlife. It will spread very easily from one village to another through trade,