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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.

If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

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.

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

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 not quite the same thing.

Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.