Proverbs:

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.
Chinese
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
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A bird may be caught with a snare that will not be shot.
Danish
A bird may be ever so small yet it always seeks a nest of its own.
Danish
A little bird wants but a little nest.
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A rare bird upon the earth, something like a black swan.
*
A sly bird is often caught by two feet.
Modern Greek
According to his pinions the bird flies.
Danish
An old bird is not caught with chaff.
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Bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground.
Dutch
Birds of prey do not flock together.
Portuguese
Birds of prey do not sing.
German
Birds pay equal honors to all men.
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Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
*
Early birds pick up the crumbs (worms).
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Every bird is known by its feathers.
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Every bird likes its own nest best.
*
Every bird must hatch its own eggs.
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Every bird needs its own feathers.
Danish
Every bird sings as it is beaked.
Dutch
Every hooked beak is maintained by prey.
French
Every shot does not bring down a bird.
Dutch
Fine birds are commonly plucked.
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Fine feathers make fine birds.
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He that will take the bird must not scare it.
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He will ill catch a flying bird that cannot keep his own in a cage.
*
However high a bird may soar, it seeks its food on earth.
Danish
If every bird take back its own feathers, you’ll be naked.
*
If the partridge had the woodcock’s thigh,
It would be the best bird that ever did fly.
*
If you be false to both beasts and birds, you must like the bat fly only at night.
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If you can’t get the bird, get one of its feathers.
Danish
Ill fares the young bird in the urchin’s hand.
Portuguese
It is a dirty bird that fouls her own nest.
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It is a foolish bird that stays the laying salt upon her tail.
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It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest.
Danish
It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
German
It is rash to sell the bird on the bough.
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Let no shovel beaked bird ever enter your yard.
Spanish
Little bird, little nest.
Spanish
Little by little the bird builds its nest.
French
Old birds are hard to pluck.
German
Old birds are not caught with cats.
Dutch
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
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One beats the bush, another catches the bird.
German
Small birds must have meat.
*
The bird feels not its wing heavy.
Turkish
The bird once out of hand is hard to recover.
Danish
The bird that can sing and won’t sing must be made sing.
*
The bird that offers itself to the net is fair game to the fowler.
Oriental
The first bird gets the first grain.
Danish
The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught.
*
The nest made, the bird dead.
Portuguese
The nest of a blind bird is made by God.
Turkish
The noisy fowler catches no bird.
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Though the bird may fly over your head let it not make its nest in your hair.
Danish
Two birds of prey do not keep company with each other.
Spanish
When the cage is ready the bird is flown.
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Where the bird was hatched it haunts.
Dutch
You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
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Proverbs theme "Bird" in English
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