“You’ll think this is a bit silly, but I’m a bit–well, I have a thing about birds.”
“What, a phobia?”
“Sort of.”
“Well, that’s the common term for an irrational fear of birds.”
“What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?”
― Anansi Boys
Spirit of Flight (detail), Charles Umlauf, Love Field, Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 
Birds can scary. They don’t blink much. You ever been around a person that doesn’t blink much?
Pretty scary.
Don’t know… I blink all the time. Allergies, I think. Does that mean birds don’t have allergies?
Haha. I don’t know, Bill.