Rare Bird

Until Thursday afternoon, I'd also never been party to a rare-bird gathering—those conclaves where birders descend on some sand dune or marsh with their tripod-mounted $3,000 Swarovski spotting scopes—the most intriguing species arguably not the birds but people with that much time and money on their hands. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

The script puts wit far ahead of logic, although Mr. Saldanha and his co-writer, Don Rhymer, had the bright comedic idea of shackling Blu and Jewel together, like Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in "The Defiant Ones," after they're captured by rare-bird smugglers. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

As well as raising awareness of rare-bird vulnerability, she also champions "virtuous coffee consumption". ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

Seeing senior Bush officials abroad for any length of time has become like rare-bird sightings emphasis added. ❋ John L. Trapp (2003)

Popular professions include rare-bird smuggler, cab driver, and hooker. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Well, they had their own sites, and I wanted to do some non-publishing things on mine, such as raise awareness of rare-bird vulnerability and heighten Virtuous Coffee Consumption (Arabica, shade-grown, doesn't kill birds) and blog the seven-country dramatic-and-musical book tour we were about to do. ❋ Feelinglistless (2010)

He loves living in a place where people get distracted by rare-bird sightings, not celebrities, where life is free from the glitzy distractions of New York and Los Angeles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ampersand’s list of masterworks certainly fits into that pattern, and so do many of the “exceptionally good” superhero stories mentioned in this thread (various titles associated primarily with Alan Moore (not his artists), Grant Morrison (not his artists) or Frank Miller (a rare-bird writer-artist)). ❋ Unknown (2004)