Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

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

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.