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  2. Phoenix (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In the oldest images of phoenixes on record these nimbuses often have seven rays, like Helios (the Greek personification of the Sun). [16] Pliny the Elder [17] also describes the bird as having a crest of feathers on its head, [15] and Ezekiel the Dramatist compared it to a rooster. [18] The phoenix came to be associated with specific colors ...

  3. To a Waterfowl - Wikipedia

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    The duck, flying across the sunset, seemed to Bryant as solitary a soul as himself, and he wrote the poem that evening. [4] "To a Waterfowl" was first published in the North American Review in Volume 6, Issue 18, March 1818. [5] It was later published in the collection Poems in 1821. [1]

  4. Category:Metaphors referring to birds - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 17 November 2020, at 03:23 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Portal:Birds/Quotes - Wikipedia

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    Portal:Birds/Quotes/19 People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.

  6. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Wikipedia

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    The birds spend all their time extolling the virtues of Jonathan and his students and spend no time flying for flying's sake. The seagulls practice strange rituals and use demonstrations of their respect for Jonathan and his students as status symbols. Eventually, some birds reject the ceremony and rituals and just start flying.

  7. Birds and Fishes - Wikipedia

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    "Birds and Fishes" appeared in 1963, the year after Jeffers died, as the concluding poem in the collection The Beginning and the End and Other Poems, published by Random House. The same year it also appeared in Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems from Random House and Poetry in Crystal from Steuben Glass Works . [ 6 ]

  8. The Conference of the Birds - Wikipedia

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    The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Arabic: منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) [1] is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.

  9. Codex on the Flight of Birds - Wikipedia

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    The seventh folio contains a very detailed diagram of either the tip of a bird's wing or the wing of a possible flying machine along with five more diagrams of birds in flight. [10] Leonardo starts writing on a flying machine and comparing it with the notes he has already taken on the flight of birds.