Bird Quote by Charles Darwin

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

— Peter R. Grant

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created…

— Charles Lyell

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they…

— David Attenborough

“were endemic to each island were also three distinct species.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds

— Saadi

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to…

— Peter R. Grant

“In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets…

— Barry Lopez

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

— Bill Parcells

The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the…

— David Lack