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Bird Box (film)
Bird Box (2018) is a Netflix post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Susanne Bier, starring Sandra Bullock as Malorie, based on Josh Malerman's 2014 novel; over 80 million viewers, 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, spinoff Bird Box Barcelona.
Bird Box (novel)
Bird Box (2014) is Josh Malerman's debut post-apocalyptic horror novel, published by Ecco, about Malorie's blindfolded rowboat journey with her two children; adapted into a 2018 Netflix film and followed by the sequel Malorie.
Bird Box Barcelona
Bird Box Barcelona is a 2023 Spanish-language Netflix post-apocalyptic thriller, a parallel spin-off of Bird Box (2018), directed by Àlex and David Pastor, starring Mario Casas, released 14 July 2023.
Bird fancier lung
Bird fancier lung (BFL), or pigeon breeder's lung, avian hypersensitivity pneumonitis: immune lung disease from inhaled bird proteins in droppings, feathers, serum; treated mainly by antigen avoidance.
Bird flight
Bird flight: powered flight by birds using feathered wings, evolved from small theropod dinosaurs with Archaeopteryx about 150 million years ago; lift, thrust, pectoralis-driven flapping, repeated origins, and at least 150 losses of flight.
Bird in Space
Bird in Space (L'Oiseau dans l'espace) is a sculpture series by Constantin Brancusi, begun in marble in 1923, reducing a bird in flight to one elongated polished form.
Bird intelligence
Bird intelligence: complex cognition in birds, chiefly corvids (crows, ravens, jays) and parrots, showing ape-like tool use, planning, and vocal learning despite small, cortex-free brains with primate-like neuron counts.
Bird migration
Bird migration: seasonal movement of birds between breeding and nonbreeding grounds. Also called partial migration when only part of a population migrates; birds navigate with sun, star, and magnetic compasses; 45% of migratory bird species are declining.
Bird nest
Bird nest: the structure or site where birds lay eggs and raise young. Ten recognized types from scrape to mound; climate explains more architectural variation than predation; nestboxes can become ecological traps under heatwaves.
Bird of prey
Bird of prey (raptor, from Latin rapere, to seize): carnivorous birds with hooked beaks, talons, and keen vision, including hawks, eagles, falcons, owls, and vultures; over 300 diurnal species, 18% threatened globally.
Bird on a Wire (film)
Bird on a Wire is a 1990 American action-comedy directed by John Badham. It stars Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn in a chase film shot in Vancouver.
Bird sanctuary
Bird sanctuary: an area of land or water set aside by governments, communities, or private entities to protect birds, closed to hunting and disturbance. From Last Mountain Lake (1887) and Pelican Island (1903) to EU SPAs and community ecotourism sites.
Bird Singing Stream
Bird Singing Stream (鸟鸣涧) is a twenty-character Chinese quatrain by the Tang poet Wang Wei, describing a still spring night stirred by falling flowers, moonrise, and bird calls.
Bird species
Bird species: distinct bird populations treated as evolutionary lineages, roughly 10,000 living species split into Palaeognathae and Neognathae, with 11% threatened and three in five declining.
Bird strike
A bird strike, also called a bird hit, is a collision between a bird and an aircraft, most often during takeoff, landing, or low-altitude flight.
Bird vision
Bird vision: tetrachromatic avian visual system with four single cone types, double cones, colored oil droplet filters, and secondarily re-evolved ultraviolet sensitivity via Ser90Cys; raptor acuity 3–5x human.
Bird vocalization
Bird vocalization: sounds birds make via the syrinx, a dual-source vocal organ at the tracheobronchial junction using the MEAD mechanism. Covers calls versus song, vocal learning in songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds, and bioacoustic monitoring.
Bird Wetlands of Hanko and Tammisaari
Bird Wetlands of Hanko and Tammisaari (Ramsar site 1506, Waterfowl habitats of Hanko and Tammisaari), a 55,196 ha Finnish Ramsar wetland designated 2004 in the Gulf of Finland, with flads, gloes, migrating ducks and waders, and Finland's largest Caspian Tern colony.
Bird-and-flower painting
Bird-and-flower painting (huaniao hua) is one of the three principal genres of traditional Chinese painting, matured in the Song dynasty and later transmitted to Japan.
Bird-in-the-hand theory
The bird-in-the-hand theory, attributed to Myron J. Gordon's work of 1956 to 1963, holds that investors value certain dividends over uncertain capital gains, so higher payouts raise share prices.
Bird-of-paradise
Birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae), 39–45 species of New Guinean passerines with extreme male plumage and courtship displays driven by sexual selection; 37 of 45 species biofluorescent; riflebirds and manucodes also in Australia.
Bird-Singing Woods
Bird-Singing Woods (鸟语林) is the Chinese name for large walk-through aviary attractions with semi-natural, netted enclosures; notable sites include Dalian Laohutan, Chengdu, Changsha, Fuzhou, and Shihua Cave near Beijing.
Bird's Eye (album)
Bird's Eye is Ravyn Lenae's second album (Atlantic, August 9, 2024), 12 songs, 39 minutes, executive produced by Dahi, featuring Childish Gambino and Ty Dolla $ign, genre-blending R&B with a Metacritic score of 83.
Bird's eye chili
Bird's eye chili (prik kee noo, cili padi) is a trade name for small, upright, very hot chilies of Capsicum annuum or C. frutescens, 2–4 cm, 50,000–100,000 SHU, central to Southeast Asian and African cooking.
Bird's Opening
Bird's Opening is the chess opening starting 1.f4, a reversed Dutch Defence named for Henry Bird; ECO A02–A03, main reply 1...d5, sharpest test the From's Gambit 1...e5, rare in classical play and used as a blitz surprise weapon.
Bird's-eye view
Bird's-eye view: a view from directly above, also a 19th-century American drawn city panorama (about 2,400 communities, 1830s-1920s), a 90-degree film camera angle, and a BEV representation in computer vision for autonomous driving.
Bird's-eye-view perception
Bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception is an autonomous driving approach that transforms camera, LiDAR, and radar data into a unified top-down representation, letting detection, fusion, and planning operate in one coordinate frame.
Bird's-nest fern and crocodile fern as houseplants
The bird's-nest fern (Asplenium nidus) and crocodile fern (Microsorum musifolium) are tropical ferns grown as houseplants for their architectural foliage, requiring shade, humidity, and careful watering to avoid crown rot.
Birdcage Inn (파란 대문)
Birdcage Inn (파란 대문, Paran Daemun) is Kim Ki-duk's 1998 South Korean drama, his third feature, about a prostitute at a seaside Pohang inn and the innkeeper's daughter; it opened Berlin 1999 Panorama.
Birdeater
Birdeater is a 2023 Australian psychological thriller and debut feature of directors Jack Clark and Jim Weir, in which bride-to-be Irene joins her fiancé Louie's outback bucks party, which turns feral; it won the Sydney Film Festival Audience Award and the 2025 AACTA Best Indie Film award.