Modest Mouse -- Worms vs. Birds + House Wren

"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages." -- Spiro T. Agnew



Modest Mouse -- Worms vs. Birds




House Wren

Breathe Owl Breathe -- Drop and Roll + Barred Owl

“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?”



Breathe Owl Breathe -- Drop and Roll




Barred Owl

Andrew Bird -- Heretics + Sandhill Crane

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” -- William Blake



Andrew Bird -- Heretics




Sandhill Crane

Iron and Wine -- Flightless Bird, American Mouth + House Sparrow

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." -- Henry Ward Beecher



Iron and Wine -- Flightless Bird, American Mouth




Common House Sparrow

Rosebuds -- Blue Bird + Eastern Bluebird

1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Who goes there?
King Arthur: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Pull the other one!
King Arthur: I am, and this is my trusty servant Patsy. We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: What? Ridden on a horse?
King Arthur: Yes!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: You're using coconuts!
King Arthur: What?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.
King Arthur: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercia, through...
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Where'd you get the coconuts?
King Arthur: We found them.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
King Arthur: What do you mean?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Well, this is a temperate zone
King Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
King Arthur: Not at all. They could be carried.
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
King Arthur: It could grip it by the husk!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
King Arthur: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
King Arthur: Please!
1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Am I right?



Rosebuds -- Blue Bird




Eastern Blue Bird

Fleet Foxes -- White Winter Hymnal + Skylark

"Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best." -- Henry Van Dyke



Fleet Foxes -- White Winter Hymnal





Skylark

Magnolia Electric Co. -- Dark Don't Hide It + Snowy Owl

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?" -- Rose F. Kennedy



Magnolia Electric Company -- Dark Don't Hide It




Snowy Owl

Lhasa De Sela -- De Cara a la Pared + Resplendent Quetzal

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. --Edward Hoagland



Lhasa De Dela -- De Cara a la Pared




Resplendent Quetzal

She and Him -- You Really Got a Hold On Me + Blackburnian Warbler

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” --Maya Angelou



She and Him -- You Really Got a Hold On Me




Blackburnian Warbler