In August at Ulithi, birds were on the beaches in company with Crocethia alba.
Birds were numerous at inland openings and ponds, air field strips, and on the extensive tidal flats at Akarakoro Point.
Consider what would be the result if the proper food of birds were leaves, or if insects were permitted to devour the foliage unchecked!
This was so placed as to hang across the course which the birds were likely to take, and when a cock flew against it, the net was suddenly made to drop by the concealed fowler, and the bird caught, entangled in the meshes.
Farther down the valley, a mile or more from the roost, birds were to be seen flying toward it, but I found no place at which a general movement could be observed and large numbers counted.
Then, in an hour and ten minutes, 1203 birds were seen to enter the roost at the eastern end.
A moment later two humming-birds were there, and in another moment they flew away in a direction opposite to the apple-tree.
After the flight-birds were over, with a single net sprung on the ground we have taken 100 dozen at a time.
I have quoted from the latter part of Mr. Phillips' letter to show how plentiful other kinds of birds were in the old days.
A heavy body had got through nesting, but worlds of birds were feeding on blueberries.
In 1861 a large body of birds were in Ohio roosting in the Hocking Hills, my first year out.
With desperate determination they dragged their sodden and weary bodies through the shallows beyond, and blind fury filled them with spasmodic vigour as they saw what the sea-birds were feeding on.
Sea-birds were just as bad in a different way, and fishes were altogether too elusive until you wanted to eat them, when a baited hook did the trick in a moment.
This close to the hunters' lodge there shouldn't be many animals--but arrow-birds were always on the watch.
After making sure no arrow-birds were feeding on the meat fruit, he undid one of his armor zippers and pulled a bottle of black liquid and a small brush from an inside pocket.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birds were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
