Amazement Quote by Christopher Cokinos

That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina…

— Christopher Cokinos

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I…

— Jim Parsons

I went to a party when I was a student and they had a mynah bird up in the bedroom where people put their…

— Derren Brown

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

— Christopher Cokinos

“The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into…

— Washington Irving

The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no…

— Arthur Cleveland Bent

“You may have noticed sudden death of parakeet or perhaps your parakeet is having breathing problem. This is because of birds having a susceptible…

— Mayur Kale

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though

— Roger Tory Peterson

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

— Tommy Douglas

“Trained hawks have a peculiar ability to conjure history because they are in a sense immortal. While individual hawks of different species die, the…

— Helen Macdonald