The open book represents a gateway to learning, while the birds represent the knowledge learned through the books.

These birds represented the gods of the earth, air, fire, and water.

The birds represent the danger that Robert was going to experience in the novel.

Inside, the birds here represent living, breathing evidence of the environmental effects of the spill.

The bird represents attachment (also translated as desire or clinging).

They must have seen what danger the birds represented to the future of all baryonic species.

Perhaps the bird is also representing the sound that the person might make - or might have made at one time.

The royal bird represented something more: it was the symbol of a god and a king.

But, he added, farmers, airport managers and others for whom birds represent a health, safety or economic threat need a weapon.

Five birds, which some say represent the dead girls, circle in the blue sky above.