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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."
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"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."
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"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
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"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned."
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"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
Birds


"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."
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"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
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"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."
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"The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history."
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"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology."
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