Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 allows us to see where birds are expanding their ranges and where they're declining. (For example,) in the year after the West Nile virus was first discovered, we did see populations of crows decreasing in certain areas.

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.

Some birds might eat these in duress, but cheap seed products usually languish on the ground and become moldy.

Some birds may not be in a good enough condition to lay eggs now because the site is too dry.

Dick Thompson

The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected.

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 found some 3,600 birds dead at the farm on Friday evening. We collected samples and conducted tests.

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

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 threats to birds and mammals are well known, but it turns out that languages are far more threatened.

The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky.

A number of samples have to be taken from both wild and domestic birds in each member state, and the type of tests that will be done.

Leslie Miller

Anything is possible in nature. You have birds that fly around the world.

An outbreak has been detected. A local poultry farm keeping 46,000 birds was affected, of which 42,000 were infected and 40,000 of those, died.

Sometimes you can't even see the trees for all the birds that are back there.

Sometimes people think the rare birds are most interesting, but that's not true. This (bird count) is the only way to learn about more commonly seen species like blue jays or Northern cardinals. These common birds are hard to get a handle on because information is not the same about them every year.

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.

George H. W. Bush

At this moment there is no pandemic influenza in the United States or the world, but if history is our guide there's reason to be concerned, ... In the last century, our country and the world have been hit by three influenza pandemics, and viruses from birds contributed to all of them.

And with the numbers of birds that we have, we are going to have some really good hunting through the rest of the year, we just have to do our homework, go where the birds are concentrated and do the work every day.

There's been a lot of debate about the role that migratory birds are or might play in spreading the disease.

It's one of the most endangered birds in the world.

This is an exciting opportunity to better document the existence and learn more about this magnificent bird. Now that the leaves have fallen, conditions have improved for seeing and hearing the birds. Finding birds is a critical part of the recovery process and we're hoping for some exciting news.

It might be because children were home for the holidays, maybe playing with birds around the house, and sick birds are easier to catch.

It remains unclear if the outbreak has been triggered by migratory birds or by the trade and movement of poultry or poultry products.

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,

J. C. Watts

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Birds in the high Hall-garden/ When twilight was falling,/ Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,/ They were crying and calling.

Birds have carried several different influenza strains here in the United States for many years, but they usually do not cause problems in humans.

Birds die all the time for any number of reasons.

Gerard Hopkins

Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain,/ Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. / Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.