What ARE birds?

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SpoilerBird list:
Centipedes, Alligators, Bald Eagles, Penguins, Chicken, Spiders, Crows, Peacocks, Owls, Tyrannosauruses, Blue whales, Squid, kangaroo, gorillas, turtles, octopuses, roses, sunflowers, trilobites, crabs, lions, tigers, wolves, giant pandas, grizzly bears, mammoths, hornets, flying fish, snails, dragons, chameleons


Some ____ are birds:
Birds, Passerines, flightless birds, reptiles, primates, strict-herbivores, insects, angiosperms, monkeys, beetles, extinct organisms, fish, sharks, fictional creatures, beetles with horns or pincers, lizards


Not birds:
Humans, Snakes, Bees, Rotifers, Cockroaches, Worms, Annelids, Shrimp, Crocodiles, Gharials, Caimans, Ants, Canaries, Cassowaries, Emus, Kiwis, Vultures, Herons, Ducks, Sparrows, Doves, Seagulls, Sperm Whales, Platypuses, ratites, kakapos, Elephants, unicellular organisms, all marsupials except kangaroos, venus fly traps, sea turtles, all fungi except mushrooms, pacmen, termites, toads, hermit crabs, slugs, swans, eels, unicorns, Anomalocarises, domesticated animals except chickens, pokemon, dolphins, hummingbirds, red pandas, all canines except for wolves, all felines except lions or tigers, all extinct vertebrates besides mammoths and tyrannosauruses (probably), all plants except some angiosperms, rodents, all bears except grizzly bears and pandas, all wasps that are not hornets, Great White Sharks, Tiger Sharks, Whale sharks, Nurse Sharks, griffons

There are 64 total types of things that are birds.

"Zoofights" while an extremely good guess are not birds.
Organisms who have never been represented in drawings are not birds.
Ghosts are not organisms so they are not birds
Some non human animals with sapience, maybe are birds
The organisms that share a taxonomical trait that is exclusive to organisms that are birds but is not simply a listing of the names of organisms that are birds are not birds.
Creatures that have not represented groups or individuals in a tournament bracket are birds.
Birds are not things that would make awesome names for sports teams.
Birds are not things which are depicted in art as having pointy teeth.
Birds are not organisms entered into a tournament bracket.
Birds are not creatures referenced in a specific piece of fictional literature.

Free plant facts, anytime!

Are birds creatures referenced in a specific webcomic?
Are birds creatures referenced in a specific film?
Are birds creatures referenced in a specific television series?

Are fictional creatures that are not dragons birds?
Are trees birds?
Are sharks that are not hammerhead sharks birds?
Are lizards that are not chameleons birds?
Are dung beetles birds?
Are mosquitoes birds?
Are butterflies birds?
Are monocots birds?

I don't know if I want to pursue the non-iterative search for birds...I'm kind of enjoying going through the whole of living things real and imagined. But for akumu's sake we should probably go ahead and figure out what birds are.