"catch a bird" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about attempts to physically catch a bird (such as a pet or a wild animal). For example: "My daughter loves birds, so she tried to catch a bird in the park."
"You can't catch a bird when it's looking at you," Mr. Horvath said.
To break a code is to extend a hand to grasp the sky and hope to catch a bird.
"When you try and catch a bird, if you're flailing at it, trying to grab for it, you're never going to catch it," Halladay said after the game, invoking a lesson he learned from Dorfman, who died in 2011.
The cameraman's job was to catch a bird of paradise in full display, so he dug himself a hole, covered it with branches, and sat inside it for three weeks.
You might not quite be able to catch a bird in lime or shoe a horse by the end of it, but you'd certainly have the rudiments of the job.
Barocci is as alive to the comedy of a cat that can't catch a bird as he is to the astonishment of a saint suddenly receiving stigmata from heaven, as attuned to the pleasure of waking to sunlight as he is to the humorous solidarity between old friends.
"Somehow they caught a bird, I don't know how, but they caught it.
We'll keep you posted as we pick up on them but here are the first batch: Jenny Ramsay (@JRazzz) Caught a bird!
A gamekeeper on a Stirlingshire sporting estate caught a bird of prey in a type of trap that has been illegal for decades, a court has heard.
In the first episode, Claire catches a bird trapped in the walls of the White House.
A lonely girl called Immi goes fishing one day only to catch a colourful bird followed by another colourful item after another.
