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The phrase "a number of bird" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a number of birds" to refer to multiple birds.
Example: "During our hike, we spotted a number of birds flying overhead."
Alternatives: "several birds" or "a variety of birds".
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A number of bird and mammal taxa specialize on these habitats.
By alternating among hosts, cuckoos are coevolving with a number of bird species in Britain.
Since then, imprinting has been observed in a number of bird species including geese, ducks and, of course, cranes.
Instead, it argues with an overwhelming amount of evidence that a number of bird species should be considered more as "feathered apes".
In recent decades, scientists have discovered that a number of bird species employ tools in the wild, usually to get at food they can't reach with their beaks.
There are little groups of doll's house furniture, a number of bird houses (looking like weatherbeaten beach huts), and the glass cast of what seems to be a human intestine.
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"And there are quite a number of birds that fly," he said.
A number of birds, of widely divergent families, have feathers modified for producing sound in flight.
A number of birds engage in so-called nest relief ceremonies.
"I can see this killing a number of birds with one stone".
And the heavy annual seed crop provides a source of food for a number of birds and rodents.
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