The word "birds" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to the animals that are commonly known as birds, such as chickens, ducks, and ostriches. For example, "The sound of birds chirping in the morning always cheers me up."
Ukip pose more of a problem as all our birds are European.
Coursework has included students making their own children's books and studying birds for conservationists the Audubon Society.
Some birds of prey also thrived on grouse moors because of these plentiful food supplies: merlin were four times more numerous on grouse moors than in other locations (although this may be because, unlike hen harriers, they are too small to kill grouse).
Now that's been whittled down by public vote to a final round of 10 birds".
Eggs are also valuable; besides their nutritional worth, they are used in their millions to produce our annual flu vaccines, as well as offering a means to explore embryo development and even test theories of how birds evolved from dinosaurs.
The non-avian dinosaurs were killed off completely, but others survived and became the direct ancestors of birds.
One pair of these birds made their appearance at the latter end of February, and, after cautiously surveying the place, began to construct a nest with branches which they very dextrously broke from the trees.
As a scientist working for Natural England, the government's conservation watchdog, Stephen Murphy has spent the last eight years fitting hen harriers with £2,700-satellite transmitters to better understand the lifestyle of these birds, and the reasons for their demise.
Around 70% of hen harriers die of natural causes in their first year and of Murphy's 47 tracked birds, 37 disappeared without a trace.
Birds tagged in Bowland have been tracked making lightning trips 300 miles north to Scotland and beyond.
These clients expected to shoot 75 brace (150 birds) in a day between them.
