Some articles on breeding birds, bird, birds:
... The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds - their distribution and abundance (ISBN 0-85661-091-7) is an ornithological atlas published for the European Bird Census Council by T A D Poyser in 1997 ... The atlas was the first to present grid-square distribution maps for all breeding birds at a Europe-wide level ...
... Annet has long had a reputation for being the best island for breeding birds and Jessie Mothersole visiting in 1910 described the island thus ″Annet is known by the name of " Bird Island," from the ... Numbers of breeding birds have fallen over the years and in the last 150 years some of the threats have been recorded ... Shearwaters' holes, probably destroying many birds, and made a ruin of everything ...
... in thermals along with other scavengers and birds of prey, or perched on the ground or atop a building ... Young birds have been heard making a hissing croak in flight ... In Spain, summer roosts are formed mainly by immature birds ...
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)