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Bird

Definition: Bird

Bird

Noun

1. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.

2. The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food.

3. Informal terms for a (young) woman.

4. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.

5. Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.

Verb

1. Watch and study birds in their natural habitat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bird" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Bird \Bird\ (b[~e]rd), noun. [Old English brid, bred, bird, young bird, bird, Anglo-Saxon bridd young bird.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Bird

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

A colloquial term for a rocket, satellite, or spacecraft. (references)

Bible

Bird Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and (2) the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, they were not divided as other victims were (Gen. 15:10). They are mentioned also as an article of food (Deut. 14:11). The art of snaring wild birds is referred to (Ps. 124:7; Prov. 1:17; 7:23; Jer. 5:27). Singing birds are mentioned in Ps. 104:12; Eccl. 12:4. Their timidity is alluded to (Hos. 11:11). The reference in Ps. 84:3 to the swallow and the sparrow may be only a comparison equivalent to, "What her house is to the sparrow, and her nest to the swallow, that thine altars are to my soul." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Electrical Engineering

An orbiting space vehicle that actively or passively relays signals between communications stations. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Bird An endearing name for girl.
"And by my word, your bonnie bird
In danger shall not tarry;
So, though the waves are raging white,
I'll row you o'er the ferry."
Campbell: Lord Ullin's Daughter.
Bird is the Anglo-Saxon bird, the young of any animal, hence bride, verb, beran, to bring forth.
A bird of ill-omen. A person who is regarded as unlucky; one who is in the habit of bringing ill-news. The ancients thought that some birds indicated good luck, and others evil. Even to the present day many look upon owls, crows, and ravens as unlucky birds; swallows and storks as lucky ones.
Ravens, by their acute sense of smell, discern the savour of dying bodies, and, under the hope of preying on them, light on chimney-tops or flutter about sick rooms; hence the raven indicates death. Owls screech when bad weather is at hand, and as foul weather often precedes sickness, so the owl is looked on as a funeral bird.
A bird of passage. A person who shifts from place to place; a temporary visitant, like a cuckoo, the swallows, starlings, etc.
A jail-bird. (See Jail.)
The bird of Juno. The peacock.
Minerva's bird is either the cock or the owl; that of Venus is the dove.
The bird of Washington. The American or baldheaded eagle.
"The well-known bald-headed eagle, sometimes called the Bird of Washington."- Wood.
The Arabian bird. The phoenix.
The green bird tells everything a person wishes to know. (Cherry and Fairstar.)
The talking bird spoke with a human voice, and could bid all other birds join in concert. (Arabian Nights.)
Old birds are not to be caught with chaff. Experience teaches wisdom.
One beats the bush, and another takes the bird. The workman does the work, the master makes the money.
`Tis the early bird that catches the worm.
"Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
A little bird told me so. From Eccles. x. 20: "Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, ... for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

A geophysical measuring device such as a magnetometer, plus the housing inwhich it is towed behind an aircraft. (references)

Slang

Noun. Source: Bird- flying animal. Definition: Any military aircraft, but most commonly used to refer to Helicopters. Context: . Social Source: Military Personnel. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Bird

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

nah:Tototl

Birds
Lemon-bellied Flycatcher
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Orders
Many: see text

Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds in the world.

Introduction

Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge Ostrich and Emu.

Although most birds are characterised by flight, the ratites are flightless, and several other species, particularly on islands, lost this ability. Flightless birds include the penguins, Ostrich, kiwis, and the extinct Dodo. Flightless species are vulnerable to extinction when humans or the mammals they introduce arrive in their habitat, for example the Great Auk, flightless rails, and the moa of New Zealand.

Birds are a very differentiated class, with some feeding on nectar, seeds, insects, rodents, fish, carrion, or other birds. Most birds are diurnal, or active during the day. Some birds, such as the owls and nightjars are nocturnal or crepuscular (active during twilight hours). Many birds migrate long distances to utilize marginal habitats (e.g., Arctic Tern) while others spend almost all their time at sea (e.g. the Wandering Albatross).

Common characteristics of birds are the ability to fly using feathered wings, a bony beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, high metabolic rate, and a light but strong skeleton. Birds are among the most extensively studied animal groups, with hundreds of academic journals devoted to their study.

To groom, or preen, their feathers, birds use beaks to brush away foreign particles.

The birds of a region are called the avifauna. This term is also the name of various bird parks, e.g., that in Alphen aan den Rijn.

Reproduction

Although most male birds have no external sex organs, the male does have two testes which become hundreds of times larger during the breeding season to produce sperm. The female's ovaries also become larger, although only the left ovary actually functions.


Black-browed Albatross.
Larger version

In the males of species without a phallus (see below), sperm is stored within the proctodeum compartment within the cloaca prior to copulation. During copulation, the female moves her tail to the side and the male either mounts the female from behind or moves very close to her. He moves the opening of his cloaca, or vent, close to hers, so that the sperm can enter the female's cloaca, in what is referred to as a cloacal kiss. This can happen very fast, sometimes in less than one second.

The sperm is stored in the female's cloaca for anywhere from a week to a year, depending on the species of bird. Then, one by one, eggs will descend from the female's ovaries and become fertilized by the male's sperm, before being subsequently laid by the female. The eggs will then continue their development in the nest.

Many waterfowl and some other birds, such as the ostrich and turkey, do possess a phallus. Except during copulation, it is hidden within the proctodeum compartment within the cloaca, just inside the vent. The avian phallus differs from the mammalian penis in several ways, most importantly in that it is purely a copulatory organ and is not used for dispelling urine.

After the eggs hatch, parent birds provide varying degrees of care in terms of food and protection. The chicks of ground-nesting birds such as larks and waders are often able to run virtually immediately after hatching, whereas the young of hole-nesters are often totally incapable of unassisted survival. "Fledging" is the process of a chick acquiring feathers until it can fly.

Evolution

Birds are generally considered to have evolved from theropod dinosaurss.

The exact boundary between dinosaurss and birds is unclear, especially with the recent discoveries in North-east China (Liaoning Province) that support the theory that many small theropod dinosaurs had feathers. It should be noted that although ornithischian dinosaurs share the same hip structure as birds (bird-hipped), birds originated from the saurischian or lizard-hipped dinosaurs, and so arrived at this condition independently. In fact, it developed a third time among a peculiar group of theropods, the thurizinosauridae.

The early bird Archaeopteryx, from the Jurassic, is well-known as one of the first "missing links" to be found in support of evolution in the late 19th century, though it is probably not basal among the birds.

All modern birds are classified as Neornithes, with two other major groups, the Ichthyornithes and Hesperornithes having become extinct.

The flightless Palaeognaths, the Ostrich group, were first to diverge from the avian lineage, and it is now thought that the basal divergence from the remaining Neognathes was that of the Galloanseri, the superorder containing the Anseriformes (ducks, geese and swans), and the Galliformes (the pheasants, grouse and their allies. See the chart.

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Sibley & Ahlquist's Phylogeny and Classification of Birds (1990) is a landmark work on the classification of birds (although frequently debated and constantly revised).

Birds and humans

Birds are an important food source for humans. The most commonly eaten species is the domestic chicken and its eggs, although geese, pheasants, turkeys and ducks are also widely eaten. Other birds that have been utilized for food include emus, ostriches, pigeons, grouse, quails, doves, woodcocks, songbirds and others, including small passerines such as finches..

At one time swans and flamingos were delicacies of the rich and powerful, although these are generally protected now.

Many species have become extinct through over-hunting, such as the Passenger Pigeon.

Numerous species are commensal on man and have become pandemic, for example Common Pigeon or Rock Doves (Columba livia), House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Other birds have been used by humans: for example Homing pigeons to carry messages (many are still kept for sport), falcons for hunting, cormorants for fishing, and honeycreepers to lead people to honey. Chickens and pigeons are popular subjects in experimental research in biology and comparative psychology. As birds are extra-sensitive to toxins, the Canary was often used in coal mines to indicate the presence of poisonous gases, so that the miners could escape.

Colorful, particularly tropical, birds (e.g., Parrotss, and Mynahs) are often kept as pets although this has lead to smuggling of some endangered species; CITES does considerable work to deter this.

Bird diseases that can be contracted by humans include: psittacosis, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, Newcastle's disease, mycobacteriosis (avian tuberculosis), influenza, giardiasis, and cryptosporiadiosis.


Chinstrap Penguin

See also:

and for regional articles: Bird families and taxonomic discussion are given in list of birds and Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy.

Bird was also the nickname of Charlie Parker, the noted jazz musician. Christopher Bird was a science journalist.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bird."

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Charlie Parker

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Charlie "Bird" Parker (August 29, 1920- March 12, 1955) was a famous jazz saxophonist who made huge contributions to jazz music.

Born in Kansas City, Kansas and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Parker grew up listening to jazz bands like Count Basie and Bennie Moten.

Parker moved to New York City and, with Dizzy Gillespie, was critical in the development of bebop.

Charlie Parker was responsible for a complete change in direction of melodic improvisation in regards to chromatisism, which had hitherto been largely ignored. Prior to Bird, jazz improvisation was largely based on arpeggionic flurries or the paraphrasing of melodies.

Parker was addicted to heroin for most of his life and died early.

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Kiwi

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Kiwis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Struthioniformes
Family:Apterygidae
Genus:Apteryx
Species
Brown Kiwi, A. australis
Great Spotted Kiwi, A. hastii
Little Spotted Kiwi, A. owenii

This is an article about the flightless birds native to New Zealand called kiwi. For information on the people of that country, who are nicknamed "Kiwis", see New Zealand. For information on the fruit of Chinese origin, see Kiwifruit.

The Kiwi is any of the species of small flightless birds native to New Zealand of the genus Apteryx. At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites. Though they are thought to be most closely related to either cassowaries or moa, their evolutionary origin is still uncertain.

Prior to the arrival of humans in about 1300 CE, New Zealand had no mammals, and the ecological niches that in other parts of the world were filled by creatures as diverse as horses, wolves and mice were taken up by birds (and, to a lesser extent, reptiles).

Kiwi are shy, nocturnal creatures with a highly developed sense of smell and, most unusually in a bird, nostrils at the end of their long, sharp bill. They feed by thrusting the bill into the ground in search of worms, insects, and other invertebrates; though they also take fruit and, if the opportunity arises, small crayfish, amphibians and eels.

Their adaptation to a terrestrial life is extensive: like all ratities they have no keel on the breastbone to anchor wing muscles, and barely any wings either: the vestiges are so small that they are invisible under the kiwi's bristly, hair-like, two-branched feathers. While birds generally have hollow bones to save weight and make flight practicable, kiwi have marrow, in the style of mammals.

There are three species, one of which has two sub-species:

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List of birds

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This page lists orders and families of birds, class Aves. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species.

Taxonomy is very fluid in the age of DNA analysis, so comments are made where appropriate, and all numbers are approximate. In particular see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for a very different classification.

This article and the descendant family articles follow the taxonomy of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB)for families largely endemic to that region, and otherwise the Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW).

Paleognathae

The giant flightless Struthioniformes lack a keeled sternum and are collectively known as ratites. Together with the Tinamiformes, they form the Paleognathae (or 'old jaws'), one of the two evolutionary "super orders".

Neognathae

Nearly all living birds belong to the super order of Neognathae— or 'new jaws'. With their keels, unlike the ratites, they are known as carinates. The passerines alone account for well over 5000 species.

See also

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Poultry

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Poultry refers to domesticated fowl (birds) used for food or for their eggs. These most typically are members of the orders Galliformes (such as chickens and turkeyss), and Anseriformes (waterfowl such as ducks and geese). The word poultry is often used to refer to the flesh of these birds.

In a more general sense, the word poultry may refer to the flesh of other birds, such as pigeons or doves, or "game" birds like pheasants.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Poultry."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bird

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

BIRD

EnglishBinational Industrial Research and Development(Foundation)Economics

BIRD

FrenchBanque internationale pour la Reconstruction et le Développement(économique)Economics, Finance

BIRD

PortugueseBanco Internacional de Reconstrução e DesenvolvimentoFinance

BIRD

SpanishBanco internacional de reconstrucción y desarrolloEconomics, Finance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Bird

Synonyms: birdie (n), boo (n), chick (n), dame (n), doll (n), fowl (n), hiss (n), hoot (n), raspberry (n), razzing (n), shuttle (n), shuttlecock (n), skirt (n), snort (n), wench (n), birdwatch (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bird

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Animal

Mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bird

English words defined with "bird": apodiform bird ♦ baby bird, Banana bird, Bird louse, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of paradise, bird of passage, Bower bird, Buffalo bird, butcher bird ♦ Call bird, Cricket bird, Crocodile bird ♦ Devil bird, Dial bird, Diamond bird ♦ elephant bird ♦ Flower bird, Friar bird, frigate bird ♦ game bird ♦ Humming bird, Hurricane bird ♦ Invisible bird ♦ King bird of paradise ♦ Lyre bird ♦ Magic humming bird, man-of-war bird, Messenger bird, Mino bird, mocking bird, Monk bird ♦ night bird, Nile bird, northern butcher bird ♦ oceanic bird, oscine bird ♦ Paradise bird, Parson bird, pelagic bird, Pilot bird, Puff bird ♦ Regent bird, rifleman bird ♦ satin bird, scrub bird, sea bird, secretary bird, Singing bird, Sociable bird, Song bird, Superb paradise bird, Surf bird ♦ Tailor bird, Toddy bird, tropic bird ♦ umbrella bird ♦ water bird, Whidah bird ♦ young bird. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bird": After-third-year bird, Arabian Bird, Attic Bird ♦ Big Bird, BIRD AND BABY, Bird Clear Sky Model, Bird Fancier's Lung, Bird in the hand, Bird in thy Bosom, bird nest, Bird of Este ♦ Chaonian Bird, chaparral bird, CHOIR BIRD ♦ First-year bird ♦ Green Bird ♦ Junonian Bird ♦ Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, Monk listening to a Bird ♦ NEWGATE BIRD ♦ Sea-blue Bird of March, squirt the bird ♦ Third-year bird, TRAPPER, BIRD ♦ White Bird, Winter Bird Population Study ♦ Yellow Bird. (references)
Etymologies containing "bird": Yellowhammer. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bird" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, The World Bank).

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Modern Usage: Bird

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I was filming this dead bird. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Hey, you just squashed the state bird of Alabama (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Yeah, you do more ballhandling in one minute than Larry Bird does in an hour (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

They talk to me, some times we stop and watch the sunset, and look at the birds fly. And sometimes we stop and watch the bird when there aint no birds (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;)

It's a bird cage (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman)

Lyrics

I'm like a bird, I only fly away (I'm Like A Bird; performing artist: Nelly Furtado)

Twenty inches pop my feather, The Bird man daddy (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

Then you taught me to fly like a bird (Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven; performing artist: Bryan Adams)

Will you ride the great white bird into heaven (Oh Very Young; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

Higher than any bird ever flew (Longer; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

Clever

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. (references; author: unknown)

God creates a worm for every bird, but He does not throw it in the nest. (references; author: unknown)

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. (references; author: unknown)

No one should live by the early bird policy without finding out whether he classifies as a bird or a worm. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Caged Bird (2001)

Birthday Bird (1973)

The Big Bird Cage (1972)

Bird On a Wire (1972)

The Crunch Bird (1971)

Song Titles

May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose (performing artist: Little Jimmy Dickens)

I'm Like A Bird (performing artist: Nelly Furtado)

Mama-Oom-Mow-Mow (The Bird) (performing artist: The Rivingtons)

Yellow Bird (Instrumental) (performing artist: The Arthur Lyman Group)

Surfin' Bird (performing artist: The Trashmen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bird

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Cleaned or Treated Bird Skins, Feathers, and Down Including Powder and Wastes Thereof: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Phoenix Bird Chinaware (reference)

  • Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology, Energy and Chinese Medicine (reference)

  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (reference)

  • Clapper Rail: The Secret Bird of the Marsh (reference)

  • The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training: A Realistic Approach to Training Close-Working Gun Dogs for Tight Cover Conditions (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Secrets of the Bird Tribe: Lost Stargate Artifacts and Spiritual Teachings (reference)

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (reference)

  • The Wonderful World of Sporting Dogs (A Bird Dog Puppy's First Year) (reference)

  • Bird of Paradise (reference)

  • Hollywood Classics Collectors Edition - Bird of Paradise (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bird

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Photo Album: Bird

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A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting reading a story to her pet bird. She is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Common characteristics of Culiseta melanura include a long and curved proboscis, a dark-scaled abdomen, and slightly enlarged dark scales on the outer wing. This mosquito is a vector of the eastern equine encephalitis virus in bird populations. Credit: CDC.

A male frigate bird, Frigata minor. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

A hot day on the beach at Bird Island Off of Launch ELSIE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp on eastern Lisianski Island Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Nesting place for albatross and other marine bird species Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Bird of Paradise" flower. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sea bird hovering overhead. Credit: America's Coastlines.

An ice cave with a freeze-dried mummified bird. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A gannett - a sea bird that spends most of its life off shore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bell UH-1M ready to load recruited reindeer for Santa's sleigh. Just kidding! Caribou passing by helicopter supporting bird observation camp on North Slope. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Bird
 

"Bird of paradise" by Helena Björk
Commentary: "Black and white's are my favorites. ."		"Bird" by Maciek M
Commentary: "Seagull."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Bird".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Assorted bird calls.Bird song.
Bird tweeting.Bird call.
Cardinal bird call.Bird call; tweet; bird song.
Macaw bird sounds.Digital bird call.
Exotic bird call.Digital bird call.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Bird

AuthorQuotation

Decimus Junius Juvenal

A rare bird on earth, comparable to a black swan.

Henrik Ibsen

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Homer

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

John Milton

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Lao Tse

The bird chooses its tree, not the tree the bird.

P. D. James

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Robert Browning

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Sir James M. Barrie

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

W. Blake

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Bird

TitleAuthorQuote

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

Eat your bird, Puss, for you will get nothing from me

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

A spruce little bird, probably in love, was singing desperately in a tall tree

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The shadow of a buzzard slid across the earth, and the family all looked up at the sailing black bird.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bird

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Soil contaminated with bird or bat droppings. (references)

Bird owners, pet shop employees, and veterinarians. (references)

Similarly, substantial bird virulence of SLE virus has not been reported. (references)

Business

Environmental regulations restrict noise output and require that the farms be installed away from bird migration routes. (references)

Nowadays there is an increasing demand/need for airport infrastructure projects to control the effects that sound contamination levels may have over surrounding populations as well the effects that departure/landing routes may have over bird migrating routes. (references)

Children

Nicaragua

In the spring of 2000, the Ministry of the Family announced that it would cut a considerable amount of financial support for the Blue Bird Protection Association that shelters about 100 persons with disabilities, aged from 10 months to 40 years old, who are considered unable to care for themselves. (references)

Economic History

Kuwait

The preferred size for whole chickens ranges from 900-1,200 grams per bird. (references)

New Zealand

New Zealanders colloquially refer to themselves as "Kiwis," after the country' native bird. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

Foundations in the fields of science and technology include the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD), the Binational Science Foundation, the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD), and the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission. (references)

Trade

Israel

BIRD has a website at WWW.birdf.com. (references)

Israel

BIRD often plays a proactive role in bringing together potential U.S. and Israeli strategic partners. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

In Jakarta, Blue Bird family of taxis (and the sister Silver and Golden Bird luxury taxis) are considered to be the safest and most reliable and they can be summoned by telephone (794-1234). (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Bird

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Nellie Connally

To tell me what was going on. And, otherwise, I was there just starkly alone. Well, there was a knock on the door. And I said, come in. And Lady Bird came in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bird

"Bird" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Bird" is used about 3,795 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.63%3,4392,816
Noun (proper)9.37%35615,102
                    Total100.00%3,795N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bird

The following table summarizes the usage of "bird" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
BirdLast name12,000972
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Bird

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bird".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
EtamN/ABiblical

Their bird

ZipporN/ABiblical

Bird

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Bird

CountryName
USA

Blue Bird Body Company

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Bird

Expressions using "bird": a bird in the bush ♦ a bird in the hand is worth two in the bus ♦ a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ♦ a little bird told me ♦ adjutant bird ♦ anseriform bird ♦ Ant bird ♦ apodiform bird ♦ aquatic bird ♦ arabian bird ♦ baby bird ♦ baltimore bird ♦ Banana bird ♦ barking bird ♦ Barley bird ♦ be an early bird ♦ bee bird ♦ bill of bird ♦ bird box ♦ bird brained ♦ bird breeder ♦ bird breeder's disease ♦ bird breeder's lung ♦ bird breeders'lung ♦ bird cage ♦ bird call ♦ bird catching spider ♦ bird cherry ♦ bird cherry tree ♦ bird City ♦ bird cliff ♦ Bird Diseases ♦ bird dog ♦ bird egg ♦ Bird Eye Wall's ♦ bird family ♦ bird fancier ♦ bird fancier's disease ♦ Bird Fancier's Lung ♦ bird fanciers'lung ♦ bird food ♦ bird genus ♦ bird house ♦ bird in hand ♦ bird Island ♦ bird lice ♦ bird life ♦ bird lime ♦ bird lore ♦ Bird louse ♦ bird nest ♦ bird of bad omen ♦ bird of ill omen ♦ Bird of Jove ♦ Bird of June ♦ Bird of Juno ♦ bird of Minerva ♦ bird of night ♦ bird of paradise ♦ bird of passage ♦ bird of peace ♦ bird of prey ♦ bird Parker ♦ Bird pepper ♦ bird rearers'lung ♦ bird sanctuary ♦ bird seed ♦ bird shooting ♦ bird shot ♦ bird song ♦ bird species ♦ bird spider ♦ bird strike hazard ♦ bird swing ♦ bird table ♦ bird tick ♦ bird twitter ♦ bird vetch ♦ bird watcher ♦ bird watching ♦ bird witted ♦ boatswain bird ♦ Bower bird ♦ brant bird ♦ brush bird ♦ Buffalo bird ♦ bush of a bird ♦ butcher bird ♦ cage bird ♦ Call bird ♦ camel bird ♦ canary bird ♦ Canary bird flower ♦ caprimulgiform bird ♦ Cardinal bird ♦ carinate bird ♦ cataract bird ♦ catch bird ♦ cedar bird ♦ chaparral bird ♦ cherry bird. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bird": bird-box, bird-brained, bird-breeder, bird-brightness, bird-cage, bird-call, bird-catcher, bird-catchers, bird-cherry, bird-cherry tree, bird-claw, bird-dispersed, bird-dogging, bird-drawing, bird-drive, bird-droppings, bird-eating, bird-enticing, Bird-eyed, bird-eyes, bird-faced, bird-fanciers, bird-fancying, bird-fart, bird-feather, bird-feeder, bird-filled, bird-food, bird-footed, bird-footed dinosaur, bird-friendly, bird-hipped, bird-house, bird-hunting, bird-inflight, bird-keeping, bird-killing, bird-language, bird-ledges, bird-life, bird-like, bird-lime, bird-lime-encrusted, bird-man, Bird-Meertens Formalism, bird-nest, bird-nesting, Bird-of, bird-of-paradise, bird-of-prey, bird-on-the-wing, bird-peck, bird-pollinated, bird-prints, bird-proof, bird-pulling, bird-rich, bird-scarer, bird-scaring, bird-screech, bird-shooting, bird-song, bird-songs, bird-sound, bird-spotters, bird-spotting, bird-strike, bird-swat, bird-table, bird-tables, bird-tending, bird-twitter, bird-walks, bird-watcher, bird-watchers, bird-watching, bird-whistle, bird-wing, bird-winged, Bird-witted.

Ending with "bird": bower-bird, game-bird, humming-bird, lyre-bird, sea-bird, weaver-bird.

Containing "bird": game-bird shooting, Humming-bird moth, we-come-from-place-bilong-far-on-big-bird-that-doesn't-go-flap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bird

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bird

17,476

bird t shirt

1,004

bird house

7,280

bird gift

846

humming bird

7,124

blue bird house

839

bird watching

7,094

bird control

765

bird feeder

5,226

love bird

742

bird bath

4,000

bird talk magazine

701

wild bird

3,533

bird of paradise

640

bird cage

2,722

phoenix bird

604

bird book

2,190

humming bird food

583

blue bird

2,019

sue bird

567

tweety bird

1,356

bird song

531

bird of prey

1,354

early bird

528

humming bird feeder

1,317

bird supply

500

bird toy

1,285

bird house plan

491

bird figurine

1,251

humming bird fish finder

434

pet bird

1,164