Proverbs and quotes about birds

• A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
• The early bird catches the worm, but it is the early worm that gets caught.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• A bird never flew on one wing.
• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. (Jacques Deval)
• A fine cage won't feed the bird.
• A new net won't catch an old bird.
• Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
• No matter how high a bird flies, it has to come down for water.
• A talkative bird will not build a nest
• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds
• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. (Charles Lindbergh)
• A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by.
• A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can’t catch it.
• The summer does not start with a single swallow.
• One swallow does not make a summer.
• If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.
• What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
• Had the pheasant not screamed, it wouldn’t have been shot.
• The chicken that cries at night will not lay eggs in the morning.
• The eagle does not catch flies.
• The locust flies with the wings of a falcon.
• The parrot utters one cry, the quail another.
• The owl sees in his son a falcon.
• A wise old owl sat on an oak;
  The more he saw the less he spoke;
  The less he spoke the more he heard;
  Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?
  (Edward Hersey Richards)
• When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him.
• The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her.
• The seagull sees farthest who flies highest.
• Live with vultures, become a vulture; live with crows, become a crow.
• The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.
• As proud as a peacock.
• To be up with the lark ( = to be awake and out of bed early in the morning)
• The arrow strikes one bird down, but the flock remains.
• Birds in their nest agree.
• Feather one’s own nest.
• The bird does not cry for feathers, he cries for long life and the feathers will come.

* If you can help expand this list, please send a message.