Birding Quotes

This birding tail is one of the reasons the governor and I decided that 2006 would be the year of outdoors Alabama. - Lee Sentell

They grew up in a birding household. - Clay Henderson

There's nothing like improving your birding skills by birding with someone who's good, and by meeting other birders. The best chance you have to learn birding is to hang out with folks who know their stuff, who love shorebirds and are willing to share their passion for it. It's kind of contagious when you get out with lots of people like that. - Dawn Grafe

There was no birding before the binocular. There was simply ornithology. - Pete Dunne

The weather was not favorable for birding. The winds were very heavy, 25 to 30 miles per hour. That keeps the birds below cover and you can't hear their songs. - Thomas Lipsky

The birding community is generally supportive of this sort of thing, and there's been a lot of discussion among us lately about whether this is enough. There's the understanding that fishing and hunting dollars have paid for an awful lot of habitat improvement, but overall, hunting and fishing people are declining in numbers. - Joel Geir

Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The birding trails are in the same category... We need to use our natural resources. We need to play the cards we have. - John Seymour

It's a hot birding state. Towns, especially in the southeast of Arizona, realize millions of dollars. - Mike Rupp

It was exciting and humbling to see the bird. It gives the birding world a glimmer of hope. It may still be a biological dead end. There may not be enough of a gene pool left, maybe only two or three pairs of birds. - Jim Fitzpatrick