Many birds possess a muscular pouch along the esophagus called a crop.
Many waterfowl and some other birds, such as the ostrich and turkey, possess a phallus.
But slowly the bird of the Otherworld possessed her, until at last she gazed only upon it as it winged across the new moon.
Not even birds had ever possessed such freedom of the third dimension; this was the real conquest of space.
Animals, birds, insects, plants and all lower species do not possess man's akashic linkage in their inner equipment or structure.
Tanree had an odd flash of feeling that this one had more understanding than other birds possessed.
Con- sidering that the birds usually possess the ability to fly, this is perhaps not so unusual.
For a bird possessed of enhanced intelligence, you can be awfully dense.
In the end, the speaker concludes that the small bird possesses "some blessed Hope, whereof he knew and I was unaware."
She was like a little bird in the sunset hour, safe beneath the eave, chirping and cheeping, possessed of complete poverty.