Adapted Quote by Roger Tory Peterson

“As avian diversity declined in the United States, specialist species like woodpeckers and rails disappeared, while generalist species like American robins and crows boomed.…

— Sonia Shah

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

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 which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want…

— Robert Benchley

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went…

— Jim Elliot

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

— Charlie Brooker

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Do you think trees are the new birds? Don’t answer that right away.

— Julie Klausner

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in…

— Ingrid Newkirk

“Jodie had said that if a bird becomes different from the others -- disfigured or wounded -- it is more likely to attract a…

— Delia Owens