William Bartram Bird Quotations

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.