The Canary Islands sound like they should be named after those cheerful little yellow songbirds, right? Sweet, delicate, maybe perched on a windowsill somewhere in the sun. Charming. Logical. Completely wrong.
The real story has a bit more bite.
Falling air pressure causes pain in birds’ ears, so if birds are flying low to the ground, it almost always means a storm is coming.
The Albatross is a large bird that can go years without landing. They don’t touch the ground for the first six years of life but soar continuously over the ocean.
A group of flamingos is called a Flamboyance.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. ~ Rumi
The Summer breeze and sounds of birds singing drifting through my window.