What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.
Feathers predate birds.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.