Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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.
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
