English of Core Text: One verse says “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly” — implying they were created from water; and one verse says “And the Lord God formed from the ground every fowl of the heaven” — implying they were created from the earth. How is this? They were created from the mud (the watery sediment of the earth).
On the daf / in context: The Gemara resolves the apparent contradiction about the origin of birds by locating their creation in the interface of water and earth.
Type of Learning: Custom (resolving origin of birds)What Is Learned: Birds were created from the mud, reconciling the water-source and earth-source verses.