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Oh, what is that bird?'
'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times.
This book is a salute to the scientists and the surgeons, running along in the wake of combat, lab coats flapping. Building safer tanks, waging war on filth flies. Understanding turkey vultures. T
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
Carter-headed chicken.
A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another.
I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.
Men with wings. Angels of the Apocalypse. Supernatural beings who've pulverized the modern world and killed millions, maybe even billions, of people. And here's one of the horrors, right in front of me.
A peregrine falcon," a passenger said, "lives at 2180 Yonge Street in Toronto, on the corner of Yonge and Eglinton. It sits high on the Canadian Tire building, hunts from there, brings prey, and in full view of everyone in the offices, tears it to pieces. Blood everywhere.
Phoenix, n.
The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'
When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest.
Air France's in-flight magazine.
No bird ever looked at a plane in envy
The Eagle, he was lord above
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I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.
Butterflies,
the embodiment of myth,
the articulation of the past,
first for the elite,
then for the rest of us.
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.
Nightwindflyhighfreeeeeee.
It's a Magril - a bird that's native to Gillikin Country. It spends half its life as a beetle, and when it's an adult, it goes to sleep for a year and wakes up as this majestic creature."
"Kind of like a butterfly."
"Kind of like you," he said.
You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.
A pigeon flying with the ravens will start to caw!
Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.
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Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us - long-range radar, still not in sight."
Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?"
Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!
Peace is bald eagle
Flying and flying over the trees
In search for a spot
Under the blue sky
To build her nest to care.
If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
CHAPTER 6 Dovewing
Wings of PURIFICATION
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight
The little birds have God for their caterer.
What bird are you calling?' I ask, finally, when I can't stand it any longer. The bird man stops whistling. He grins, so that I can see all his pebbly teeth. He holds out a hand to me over the broth-thin water. 'You.
Better a starving eagle, than a well-fed pigeon.
Turbulence stretches the eagle's wings.
Fly for me, Bird of the Sun.
With strong will, you can soar high on eagle's wings.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.
(The) Gray wagtail ... doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
The peregrine falcon is the swiftest, most adept animal I have ever seen. It is worth noting that, like many bird, the falcon's bones are hollow. Travel light.
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature ... whence we formerly took our flight.
Goosing my own Maverick.
I catch sight of Raffe gliding with Beliel's old demon wings above me. He refused to take part in such "human work" as leaving flyers on cars and doors but keeps an eye on us anyway.
Owls are nocturnal, swooping down silently, with the soft edges of their feathers muffling the sound of the wings, before pouncing and swallowing their prey whole. Death unseen, death unheard, death from above - the military drones of the animal kingdom
The simple bird has the freedom to fly anywhere, and yet here we stay
What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane.
A monarch butterfly has top brand recognition, an excellent recall quotient, and highly favorable demographics. Associate your candidate with famous lepidoptera, and use these filmed spots early and often.
Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.
Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"
Australopithecus.
This thing is for the birds. My goodness, how do you work this thing? Oh-" she said noticing me and Siva. "It works."
Tammi (Sloane's mom)
This flour of wifly patience.
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
little red bird. Don't go.
Ticktock, people," Cam said. "Time is running out.
We need to fly.
The Dove
Fly your flight my dear dove
Sing your song, make it reach the ocean
I want my freedom
I want to live in peace
I want to sing your song
To have your wings
To be able to fly
I want my destiny to leave the path that it is taking now.
Avian madness or deranged kiwi?
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
[...]falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.
The igneo-aerial food. In other words, despite
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.
The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.
The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.
Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
When I realized I was hovering at the centre of a giant glowing purple vulture, my first thought was: Carter will never stop teasing me about this.
Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?"
"Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding.
"What was she doing here?" Max asked.
"Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.
An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.
Raven." There was a long pause as Ronan regarded his hand. "Maybe a crow. But I doubt it. I ... yeah, seriously doubt it. Corvus corax."
Even drunk, Ronan knew the Latin name for the common raven.
Flying High with the Angels
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!
Me and my merry band of mutant bird kids.
When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
Hark to the sky of a seagull!
He cries because he's not an eagle.
Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull?
What would you say to your she-gull?
Beelzebug n. Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Make way for the Raven King
Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.
The Warrior Elite,
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
steward, bailiff, falconer, houndmaster
What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [ ... ] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
Straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain ...
Ten feet to my left, Sadie smacked a vulture with her staff. The bird exploded into white sand. Annabeth jogged toward us, giving me one of those annoyed expressions like, If you get yourself killed, I'm going to murder you. Carter, being invisible, was nowhere to be seen.
Pigs had just officially sprouted wings and were flying alongside airplanes.
Atalanta in Calydon
green T-Bird. When
Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
Armageddon chickens.
Never your bird, never finch
never graceful feathered thing.
Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary.