Migratory birds Quote by Antonio Guterres

World Migratory Bird Day is an opportunity to celebrate the great natural wonder of bird migration - but also a reminder that those patterns,…

— Antonio Guterres

To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves,…

— William Beebe

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

— Roger Tory Peterson

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will…

— Edwin Way Teale

“Birds have done great jobs for the progression of humanity: They kept alive our love for freedom and they insistently motivated us to reach…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

— Roger Tory Peterson

When you're a birder, you have all sorts of reference books, and you know about migratory patterns and technical stuff. Most people just look…

— Bill Bailey

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time…

— Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

— Roger Tory Peterson

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's…

— Douglas Coupland

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They…

— David Attenborough

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of…

— John Burroughs