Question

We changed the words in the proverb below into big and complicated ones.
For example: Exercise your faculties prior to executing a jump means Look before you leap.
Can you recognize the following well-known English proverb?
A feathered biped in the terminal part of the arm equals in value a pair of feathered bipeds in densely branched shrubbery.

Answer 1

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.