The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Usually, there is not too much competition, but there are usually two or three animals that draw a lot of interest.

... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.