birddom

Updated: May 29, 2025

Whatever may be Nature's reason for dressing the sexes unlike each other in the feathered world, which I will leave for the wise heads to settle, it is certainly an immense advantage to the looker-on in birddom.

Olive Thorne Miller - A Bird-Lover in the West

This fragile little speck of birddom fluttered into the house one stormy day, and the Chief warmed it in his hands and fed it warm milk and crumbs. From that day on it belonged, brave soul and wee body, to him. As the days grew warmer it spent its time somewhere in the forest, but at mealtime when the Chief came home all he had to do was step outside the door and whistle.

Dama Margaret Smith - I Married a Ranger

Bluejay is eating it in perfect security well beyond your reach. Oh, he is a fascinating creature is this bunch of beautiful blue feathers decorating the harshest voice of all birddom in the region of Lake Tahoe.

George Wharton James - The Lake of the Sky: Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

At this time few of their human admirers intrude upon them and the birds themselves are only too glad to escape observation. Collectors of skins disdain to ply their trade, as the ragged, pin-feathery coats of the birds now make sorry-looking specimens. But we can find something of interest in birddom, even in this interim.

William Beebe - The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year

Of all the malaperts of birddom none excel and few equal the white-eyed vireo for volubility and downright audacity. All his songs and he has quite a respectable list of them seem to be either a protest or a challenge; a protest against your intrusion into his precincts, a challenge to find him and his nest if you can.

Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser - Our Bird Comrades