If you are looking for bird images in stained glass church windows, you will usually find a white dove bearing the weight of religious imagery from ancient stories. I like the bird in this stained glass - a white-crowned sparrow that finds itself memorialized in the window of a 13th century church in Norfolk, England. It drew a crowd when it landed in the vicar's garden having completed a 3,000 mile journey across the Atlantic to become only one of four white-crowned sparrows to ever be spotted in Great Britain.
The crowds took up a collection to have this memorial made and it inspires me more than many a dove. I like the idea of remembering something that pleasantly surprised you simply because it was out of place, hung around a while, and then flew away again. Here's to all those who get lost and decide to keep flying.