The phrase "a host of birds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large number or variety of birds in a particular area or context.
Example: "As we walked through the park, we were delighted to see a host of birds flitting about in the trees."
Alternatives: "a multitude of birds" or "a flock of birds."
The team also found fossilised remains of a host of birds, reptiles and mammals including hippopotamuses.
* Encountering close up a host of birds and animals that many people never see.
The artist, a nephew of the master Lu Ji, used a vivid blue and a host of birds and flowers to conjure Taoist fairylands of eternal happiness.
Without a host of birds, toads, newts and frogs to prey on the gastropods, the home gardener is engaged in a more personal battle.
A host of birds, including black grouse, orioles, hazel grouse, woodpeckers, owls, blue tits, and ducks, inhabit the forests and marshlands.
As a result, a host of mammals, birds, and insects are most active during these times.
It has everything a small tree should: flowers in spring, colour in autumn, and fruit that attracts a host of small birds to flit around its branches.
Though I did not see quail, I saw a host of other birds, including Mexican blue-rumped parrotlets (Forpus cyanopygius), a brilliant vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus), and amazing black-throated magpie jays (Calocitta colliei).
The shift from quotidian sightings to the hinterlands of mythic lore is typical of Field Notes, which promises a suburban focus only to fly its coop repeatedly; though getting outdoors at all is new territory – Woolfson's last book, Corvus, was an account of her home life with a host of rescue birds, chiefly a crow called Spike.
The cranes – including the white-naped and the Manchurian crane, listed as vulnerable and endangered respectively by IUCN – are among a host of migratory birds that come to winter, while permanent residents include the leopard cat, several types of deer, and in the mountains black bears and the rare amur goral, an ungulate.
A new book published by Audubon New York has identified 25 locations on Long Island that are vital to the endangered plovers and a host of other birds that breed or winter on the Island or pass through it on their migrations.
