61.   Half an hour later a colleague called from the lab to tell her that the bird did indeed have an inch-long sickle claw.

62.   He recalled how his brother had once had a bird, perhaps a macaw.

63.   I say the birds will have to take their chances.

64.   Immature birds have blotchy patches of white on their undersides and tails, brown eyes and brown beaks.

65.   In central Nebraska, where hotels fill to capacity every spring weekend, it is clear that birds now have a powerful constituency.

66.   Inspectors said birds usually have either Airsacculitis, a pneumonia-like infection, or Inflammatory Process, which is similar to an infected cut.

67.   In the first place, birds have small, soft bodies and feathers, so they decompose fast.

68.   It was a pain for motorists, but local birds had a field day.

69.   Most surprising, this toothless old bird clearly had a beak, just like modern birds.

70.   Nor have I ever been persuaded that the reader was betrayed or the world endangered by letting these birds have a little privacy.