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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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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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The bluebird
carries the sky
on its back

—Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

Crotophaga major / Anu-coroca / Greater Ani

What it’s like to be a bird

The Genius of Birds

The Bird Way

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

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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