For a helpful and well designed site on Birds of North America, visit Cornell Lab of Ornithology.It has a guide for identifying birds by size & shape, habitat, markings, etc. The lovely photos are a real treat and there are several ways to search for a bird you might like to ID and learn about.
For New Zealand Birds,
explore Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of NZ's section on Native Birds & Bats.God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland
Use the talents you possess - the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~Henry Van Dyke
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
~Dixon Lanier Merritt
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off. ˜ African Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ˜ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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