birdhood

• 'I conjure you,' said the parrot earnestly, 'I conjure you by our common birdhood to help me in my misfortune.' —  The Magic City
• She won't have time to get into her birdhood now, "chuckled Nell," so she's making the best of it. —  The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
• So many hundreds were there, and their shadows so multiplied them, that they seemed less like birds than like some dream of a bird heaven -- essential birdhood. —  Gone to Earth
• A wren shot away from the porch, as the Judge and his protege entered it, and went fluttering in and out through the green branches waving over it quite distractedly, as if she had never seen a human being there in her whole birdhood before. —  The Old Homestead
• Yet with unfailing instinct he squats on some twig, fluffs up his feathers, tucks his wee head behind his wing, and sleeps the sleep of his first adult birdhood as soundly as if this position of rest had been familiar to him since he broke through the shell. —  The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year

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