50 sentences on birds to improve speaking and vocabulary

If you’d like to improve your speaking and writing, have a look at these 50 sentences on birds. From simple to advanced English levels.

Birds are quite amazing and unique creatures. For example, flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down!

Today we will talk about birds with 50 fun lines on them, along with a paragraph about birds. Lots of material to dig into and boost your vocab! 

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5 simple sentences about birds 

First, we will practice 5 simple sentences on birds. We will use the simple present tense to make these phrases.

1. Birds come to my garden in spring.
2. My favorite bird is the robin.
3. Many birds fly overhead.
4. An ostrich is a big bird.
5. A sparrow is a small bird.

5 advanced sentences on birds

Next, we will practice some more advanced sentences on birds. We are using some trickier vocabulary including soar, mammoth, unable, and ferocious. 

1. The way eagles soar above the ground is simply inspiring.
2. Condors have an absolutely mammoth wingspan.
3. Cassowaries are ferocious and prehistoric-looking creatures.
4. Although the blackbirds nest in a tree by my window, I rarely see them.
5. Despite being birds, ostriches are completely unable to fly.

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10 sentences about birds: let’s use some adjectives!

Adjectives can help add color, detail, and descriptive elements to English sentences. Let’s look at 10 avian-related adjectives, and then make 10 sentences about birds. 

Aerial	Flapping	Mobile	Plumed	Avian
Speedy	Feathery	Ferocious	Elegant	Colorful

1. The aerial abilities of kites are quite impressive!
2. The little duckling was making a cute flapping sound.
3. Those chicks are mobile from a very young age.
4. The plumed display of the peacocks was stunning.
5. Emma is interested in all things avian.
6. To avoid danger, sparrows are very speedy.
7. That cute chick is so feathery, I think it will lose some of them as it matures.
8. The eagle chick looks so ferocious already!
9. The way the peacock is strutting around is so elegant and cool.
10. The colorful plumage of peacocks is a work of art.

10 lines on birds: let’s use bird words!

Most of these words are avian-related nouns, or bird words! We can use them to make 10 lines on birds.

Beak	Bill	Egg	Birdhouse	Migration
Parrot	Peacock	Blackbird	Eagle	Incubate

1. The beak of the cassowary is black.
2. The duck’s bill is yellow.
3. The peacock laid several eggs.
4. I keep pigeons in a birdhouse.
5. The migration of birds happens every year in my area.
6. Keeping a parrot is a very rewarding hobby.
7. Don’t you just love the color of peacocks?
8. Blackbirds nest in the tree by my window.
9. I’m rather scared of eagles because they are dangerous.
10. The eggs need to incubate for a few weeks.

5 sentences on birds: let’s use some prepositions

Prepositions are very helpful when we would like to explain the location, or how something happens. Here we will look at 5 prepositions, and then make some sentences about birds using them. 

in

on

over

during

through

• Blackbirds live in a tree in my garden.
• There are some birds nesting on my roof.
• Starlings fly over this area all the time.
• During the winter I can’t see so many birds.
• Through the spring and summer, my garden is full of birds!

5 sentences on birds: past perfect

We use the past perfect to talk about things that have already finished, and that happened in the past. Using this structure, here are 5 sentences on birds.

1. The blackbirds had lived here.
2. They had fed just by the water fountain.
3. The eagle had caught some food in that field.
4. Martin had kept a bird as a pet.
5. Emma had wanted a pet parrot.

10 sentences on birds using past tense

The past tense is formed using “ed” ending verbs, for regular verbs. We can use the simple past to discuss things that have already finished. Here are 10 sentences on birds that make use of the simple past tense. 

1. The birds flew over my house
2. The ducks quacked all afternoon long!
3. I fed pigeons in the park.
4. I walked through the forest and saw lots of beautiful birds.
5. Although he couldn’t fly, the ostrich ran very quickly!
6. Similar to the ostrich, the cassowary couldn’t fly but walked through the undergrowth.
7. The cassowary ran powerfully through the forest.
8. The blackbirds made a nest in the tree.
9. The pigeons made a mess on my windowsill!
10. The hummingbird hovered by the plant.

Paragraph on birds using prepositions and past tense    

So far we have made 50 sentences on birds, with the aim of improving our speaking and vocabulary in English. Next, to focus on our writing ability we will make a paragraph on birds. This will include English prepositions and past tense use.

My paragraph on birds

I’d like to talk about a few of the birds I’m interested in. First, there are peacocks. Peacocks have always appealed to me because of their beautiful feathers. If you look at the full spread of peacock feathers, they are absolutely mesmerizing. As a child though, I was always scared of peacocks in the park, because they looked quite ferocious, to me! I’d also like to talk about Robbins. Where I grew up there were many robins in the area. They are characterized by the reddish-orange feathers on the chest. They look really pretty. They’re small birds, and I don’t know how long they live, but I always feel at ease when I watch them in my garden.

50 sentences on birds: practice them to improve your speaking and vocabulary!

I hope these 50 sentences on birds have demonstrated some new vocabulary, and shown you how to use the past tense and prepositions. Whether you are a beginner (5 simple sentences about birds), or more advanced (5 advanced sentences on birds), there was something to help on your English journey here. 

If you are a student of English, please feel free to use the paragraph on birds as inspiration for your own writing projects. Stick around for a while and find many more English sentences here at Natural English Central.