Birding Analogy Applied to Members of the Bush Administration

"They don't like to travel. Seeing senior Bush officials abroad for any length of time has become like rare-bird sightings [emphasis added]."

(Source: Tom Friedman in an 02/19/03 article in the New York Times, thanks to an excerpt posted to the BirdChat listserv on 03/04/03 by Shireen Gonzaga)