Birdwatchers With High Hopes Gifts

'I appreciate you desire to volunteer with Pilots Without Borders, but being a flightless bird you haven't enough flying hours to qualify with us.'

Life is for the birds.

"Congratulations. It's a chick."

"Better start moving towards shelter: the weather forecast is for rain this afternoon..."

Tequila Mockingbird

"You were the one who thought it was too dangerous to raise a child in the big city."

The last Passenger Pigeon

'Since we're being so honest, perhaps I should mention that I liked you better as an egg.'

'Think about it guys: We're fed and sheltered, why would we ever think about leaving the nest?'

"Why on earth do you insist on coming to this miserable, isolated, rocky, small island every year to roost? It's covered in guano! Disgusting..."

"Don't even think about it! I am the property of the English Monarch!"

"Those are the lyrics? How embarrassing—I've been singing it wrong this whole time."

'Yes, I'm nocturnal, or you could say, a certified daydreamer...'

Paralegal eagle.

"You spoil those pterodactyls!"

"We tried forming a collective - no leader, no structure, no power dynamics - but we just ended up flying in a circle over Winnipeg."

"The groceries are in the car."

'Hang on. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Apparently that's not a good idea.'

'Something tells me I shouldn't have had these around Easter.'

"You fly into a window, too?"

"We wanted to replicate their natural habitat, so we built a housing estate."

"Maybe we'd kiss better if we had lips."

"These days, everyone is lawyering up."

'Don't you just love that rap music!'

'Mom, Dad, this is Jennifer. We met early one morning and fell in love.'

"I've just been conned out of my dinner by a craft fox!"

"It's the vulture app. It appears when my phone battery is about to die."

'I don't migrate any more. The satellite dish has made the long winter nights quite bearable.'

Peacekeeping?

'Hey, you're growing fast alright: Your beak capacity has reached three litres!'

"Take us to your feeder."

'Ah ah! That's what I thought! The DNA tests prove that he is in fact a Cuckoo chick...'