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Some birds which feed on insects may bring food to the nest more than a thousand times in one day.

— Edward Allworthy Armstrong

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On the whole, the first-rate songsters have the most elaborate equipment. The birds with the most syringeal muscles and greatest ability to move the membranes tend to produce the greatest variety of sounds.

A Study of Bird Song (1963)

Those who would follow Christ must neither be unduly frightened by what is involved, nor rush into commitments which they will be unable to fulfil.

The Marsh Tit, Plain Tit, and some Willow Tits retain territory in winter and pair after occupying territory. Other species which abandon their breeding territories and flock in winter form pairs before they establish territory (Gibb 1956a).

A Study of Bird Song (1963)

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