"caught a bird" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing an action that has taken place, usually in the past tense. For example, "Yesterday, I caught a bird when it landed in my backyard."
"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.
"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.
But if you like to catch a bird's-eye view of your travels, only Google offers a satellite view of your route, much like its satellite view on a Google map on a computer.
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.
The old man would tilt his head as if to catch a bird's last chirpings; his glowing cigar end would somersault as he tossed it into the peonies.
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.
"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.
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.
