Birds
Italy has recorded 516 bird species. This is too great a number to discuss here but notable birds are Hoopoe, Roller, White-backed Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, European Green Woodpecker, Alpine Chough, Snow Finch, Rock Partridge, Bonelli's Eagle, Goshawk, Eagle Owl, Lammergeier, Egyptian Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Collared Pratincole, Glossy Ibis, Spoonbill, Allen's Gallinule, Great Bustard, Trumpeter Finch, Rosy Starling, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Woodchat Shrike, Bluethroat and Eurasian Nightjar.
Read more about this topic: Fauna Of Italy
Famous quotes containing the word birds:
“We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;”
—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 10–12)