Sentence examples for birds it has from inspiring English sources

Like many other small birds, it has in the past been trapped in rural areas at its night roosts as an easily available addition to the diet, and in medieval times the conceit of placing live birds under a pie crust just before serving may have been the origin of the familiar nursery rhyme: Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie!

Like other lure birds, it has an enviable schedule, to limit job stress: 60 to 90 minutes every other day.

Although H5N1 spreads rapidly between birds, it has so far affected only about 600 people worldwide who have had direct contact with infected poultry.

This collection isn't for the birds — it has a poetic beauty and a unique grace that will see most of the pieces flying out of stores.

But needless to say, the scenario is familiar: The game's icon is practically identical to that of Angry Birds, it has "Angry" in the title, the design and gameplay — while not exactly identical — have enough similarities to make for some serious eye-rolling.

Although the purpose of the expedition was to discover, identify and collect Mexico's birds, it has also been described as yet another honeymoon between him and Blair.

Rovio has had a number of strong follow ups to the original Angry Birds — it had three mobile in Apple's top 100 highest grossing apps over the summer, for Angry Birds Blast, Angry Birds Evolution and Angry Birds 2 — but no new brand so far has quite broken through as a blockbuster in quite the way as the original Angry Birds did.

An animal such as the bat is tabooed because it has fur like a mammal but flies like a bird; it has wings like a bird but has fur rather than feathers and therefore is neither mammal nor bird and must be shunned.

It should be said that it's not actually the same size as a bird — it has a 2-meter wingspan, making it more of an albatross simulator than anything.

Archaeopteryx has long been considered the earliest known bird; it has thus received widespread attention.

A large bird, it has a wingspan of 160 183 cm, a length of 62 81 cm, and weight of 0.8-2.3 0.8-2.3