Bee eaters eat bees. This one has a nice blue cheek.

Longlines are also a significant threat to species of seabirds that are often caught on longline hooks on the high seas.

Like, for example, a hive of bees that's finding a new nesting site, or a flock of birds that's evading a predator, or a flock of birds that's able to pool its wisdom and navigate and find a tiny speck of an island in the middle of the Pacific, or a pack of wolves that's able to bring down larger prey.

Recalling that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1999 adopted international plans of action for the management of fishing capacity, for reducing the incidental catch of seabirds in longline fisheries and for the conservation and management of sharks,

The latest estimates indicate that between 5,000 to 13,800 Black footed Albatross (1.9 to 5 percent of the population) are killed each year by industrial longline fishers with additional birds killed by other types of fishing and pollution.

Sea turtles, seabirds, marine mammals and other threatened marine species are caught, injured and killed by industrial longlines in large numbers and pushed to the edge of extinction.

The world model that a bat needs in order to navigate through three dimensions catching insects must be pretty similar to the world model that any flying bird, a day flying bird like a swallow, needs to perform the same kind of tasks.

And every one of these birds that makes the crossing from India to East Africa eats insects, large insects, the size of dragonflies. Thank you very much.

Those commitments include the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries the international plan of action for reducing incidental catch of seabirds in longline fisheries the international plan of action for the conservation and management of sharks and the international plan of action to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

We now call them non avian dinosaurs and avian dinosaurs.

When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.

Archaeopteryx, which is a bird, a primitive bird, still has that very primitive hand.

Avian dinosaurs are our modern birds.

Expressing concern over reports of continued losses of seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, as well as other marine species, including sharks, fin fish species and marine turtles, as a result of incidental mortality in fishing operations, particularly longline fishing, and other activities, while recognizing considerable efforts to reduce by catch in longline fishing by States and through various regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements,

So for instance, most of the birds in this picture are migratory birds.

Expressing concern over reports of continued losses of seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, as well as other marine species, including sharks, fin fish species and marine turtles, as a result of incidental mortality in fishing operations, particularly longline fishing, and other activities, while recognizing considerable efforts to reduce by catch in longline fishing by States and through various regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements,

And this guy, the roller, a rather beautiful bird.

Free Bird.

A bird can fly.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources has continued to play an important role in the development and implementation of measures aiming at reducing seabird mortality in longline fisheries.

As far as cleaning them, I don't mean to cast any aspersion on people cleaning birds.

Well, if you want to fly, it's good that you look at birds to be inspired by birds.

I'm going to leave you with a little bit more birdsong.

What is a bird?

To kill two birds with one stone.

Kill two birds with one stone.

A bird has wings.

Birds build nests.

The birds flew to the south.

Birds have wings.

Targeting highly migratory predatory fish species including tuna and swordfish, industrial longlines also catch or kill as many as 4.4 million sea turtles, billfish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds.

This is a bird.

Ostriches can't fly.

The bird likes rice.

And if you have one of these birds children in Japan have been making this bird for many, many years.

Longlining threatens the survival of artisanal and subsistence fishing communities, large predatory fish stocks, sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds to provide seafood that is too dangerous to eat.

34 aviaries with total capacity of 102.000 birds had AIDS constructed and the sector started to have capacity for 237.000 birds for cycle while to the level of the families 130 aviaries with capacity for 65.000 birds had AIDS constructed and the sector started to have capacity of 106.170 birds for cycle.

Well, as an ornithologist, I can tell you that birds fly, and that and that booming a bird colony doesn't do it it doesn't do it.

According to Syria, the wet deposition might have included acidic components, ionic components, soluble metals, elemental carbon and soluble organic fractions.

I'm also interested in birds. And I'm familiar with this fellow. This is a rather special bird.

Birdsong, for example, is a sound which most people find reassuring.

And so, robin eggs failed to hatch, songbirds died en masse, towns fell silent.

Mockingbirds are badass.

Birds are living dinosaurs.

There's burrowing birds.