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  • It tells how local woodbird tribes, the Cardinals and the Blue Jays, find themselves pitted against each other in a search for precious food supplies – some of which have mysteriously gone missing.

    Kaavya 2.0? « raincoaster 2006

  • 'Thou art a little woodbird, and flyest in and out the green wood; fair Nightingale, thou little woodbird, thou shalt be my messenger.'

    The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

  • He went about the work methodically, whistling again in that low key he had used when on the way from his hotel, and stopping now and then as the noise of a woodbird or some wild quadruped of the smaller kind came to his ears.

    A Black Adonis Linn Boyd Porter 1883

  • It is like a woodbird mating with an eagle, straining its little wings to scale the sky with him, blinding itself with gazing at the sun, striving to fill and warm the wild eyrie which becomes its home, and perishing in the stern solitude the other loves.

    Moods Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • The woodbird, a fluffy blue tweetie pie, struck a rather cute note with her big yellow feet!

    Gramophone James Jolly 2010

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  • Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest

    Of leaves, and feathers from her breast?

    Or how the fish outbuilt her shell,

    Painting with morn each annual cell?

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'The Problem'.

    September 15, 2009