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Tame birds sing of freedom.
Wild birds fly.

—John Lennon

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Blackbird singing
in the dead of night.

—Beatles

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Birds flyin' high,
you know how I feel.

—Nina Simone

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I want to paint
the way a bird sings.

—Claude Monet

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Wherever there are birds,
there is hope.

―Mehmet Murat Ildan

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migrating birds—
fields of pampas grass
show the way

—Kristen Deming

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The gull
giving loneliness
sound.

—Alexis Rotella

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The bluebird
carries the sky
on its back.

—Henry David Thoreau

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My heart wants to beat
like the wings of the birds that rise
from the lake to the trees.

―The Sound of Music

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To-night
the self-same songs are sung,
the first green forest heard,
my heart
and the gray world grow young,
to shelter you,
my bird.

—Sophie Jewett

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Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.

―Bob Ross

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And wild, wild sings the bird.

―Mary Oliver

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All of us with wings.

—Jane's Addiction

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Fly on, little wing.

―Jimi Hendrix

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Starling murmuration

Poem: To a Child

Poem: Bird

Poem: Birds in the Wind

Poem: Birds

Poem: Bird-Understander

Poem: Bird in the Head

Poem: Birds in a Circle

Poem: Bird of Passion

Poem: After Reading Too Many Poems, I Watch a Robin Taking a Bath

Poem: Hawk

Poem: The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First

Poem: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Poem: The Season of Phantasmal Peace

Poem: Swan

Poem: The Dipper

Poem: Morning in a New Land

Poem: The Winter Bird

Crotophaga major / Anu-coroca / Greater Ani

What it’s like to be a bird

The Genius of Birds

The Bird Way

Dawn chorus

Poems about birds

Bird poems

More bird poems

Songs about birds

The bird called me out

Why birds do what they do

The life of birds

4,886 bird songs

Bird info

Fun bird facts

Basics of bird molts

How to begin birding

Mockingbirds sing a lot

Eat, sleep & mate without touching the earth

What owls’ silent flight tells us about the world

Western scrub jay’s wits & worries

The least popular birds deserve some love

National Audubon Society

Cat TV

Devotions

The Bird

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