Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.

Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

The more you look, the more you will see.