About

We are Christian Birdwatchers who enjoy viewing and photographing the many creatures the Great Creator has made. These are thoughts and activities especially about our Birdwatching Adventures.

This blog has the Birds of the Bible articles and soon the Formed By Him Articles will also be copied here. The main blog, Lee’s Birdwatching Adventures Plus, is where these articles and many more interesting features are found. Some of what you can find there are listed on the tabs above.

Here are some of them:
Birds of the Bible – Same ones as here but with reference pages to the specific Bird of the Bible
Birdwatching – Tips, Trips, Videos
Birds in Hymns – Hymns that mention birds
Ian’s Bird of the Week by Ian Montgomery (photographer)
Birds of the World – List of all the 10,400+ birds around the world
Formed By Him
a j mithra’s articles
Guest Writers – April Lorier, Dottie Malcomb, and others
Plus - Creation and other related articles
When I Consider!
References - Torrey, Naves, and Scripture Alphabet of Animals

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This is a copy of the very first Birds of the Bible Blog that started this adventure into blogging.

Birds of the Bible – Introduction

Goal: To encourage your understanding and help you form a mental picture of the fowls or birds of the are found in Scripture.

God has created the fowls and birds and they are mentioned throughout the Bible. When you read the name of a bird, does a mental picture come to view or do you just keep reading without a thought to what you just read? Sure, you know some of them, like the Eagle or a Sparrow, but how about a Bittern, Ossifrage, Hoopoe, or Lapwing? Not just their names are important, but how about the illustrations that use birds to teach lessons? God’s care, strength, provision and other lessons are taught with birds as the examples.

Wood Stork

“But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds
of the air, and they will tell you;” Job 12:7

So, let’s get started with:

The Birds of the Bible

“Then God said, ‘Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.’ So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.” Gen 1: 20-23

Here we see that God created the birds on day five of creation and that “it was good.”

“Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.” Gen 2:19-20a

Adam was given the privilege of giving all the “critters” their names. Were there as many varieties of birds then as now? There have been changes within the species (kinds), but not evolution (changing from one kind to another kind).

Depending on which copy of the Bible you use, here are some of the names of birds mentioned in the Bible. These will be introduced in following blogs. Not necessarily in the following order.
Bittern; Chicken; Cormorant; Crane; Cuckoo; Dove; Eagle; Falcon; Glede; Hawk; Hen; Heron; Hoopoe; Kite; Lapwing; Night Hawk; Osprey; Ossifrage; Ostrich; Owl; Partridge; Peacock; Pelican; Pigeon; Quail; Raven; Sparrow; Stork; Swallow; Swan; Vulture

Links to First Birds of the Bible blogs – Eagles Raven Sparrows I