1.   A small land bird had taken refuge on the cabin roof during the gale.

2.   California condors, the largest land birds in North America, may soon be soaring over the Grand Canyon.

3.   If so, it would be by far the earliest parrot, and the earliest land bird of any kind, ever discovered.

4.   In addition to porpoise meat, Steadman found, the early Polynesian settlers were feasting on sea birds and land birds.

5.   Porpoises, sea birds, land birds and rats did not complete the list of meat sources formerly available on Easter.

6.   The land birds at times swirled around us, but generally they trickled through, crossing east to west over the open area where we stood.