If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
The early bird catches the worm.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
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