# bird (1-bird.org)

A bird is a warm-blooded animal with feathers, wings, and a beak. Most birds can fly, and people watch them, feed them, or keep them as pets.

## What a model may hear
- routing daemon (network engineering, Linux/BSD systems): assume the user wants to configure the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon, a tool for handling BGP and other routing protocols
- Twitter/X user (social media, older web slang): treat mentions of 'bird' as references to Twitter, formerly known by a bird logo, or its users
- Bird scooter (urban transportation, app services): assume the user wants to rent, find, or troubleshoot an electric scooter from the Bird company
- Bird language model (AI/ML research): confuse with 'BIRD', a benchmark for testing how well models answer questions from databases

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "I saw a rare bird today"
  Means: the person spotted an unusual animal
  May be taken as: the model suggests birdwatching apps or generates SQL queries for a database benchmark
  Say instead: "I saw a rare bird, the animal, while hiking today"
- Says: "My bird is not working"
  Means: a pet bird seems sick or a toy bird is broken
  May be taken as: the model gives instructions for restarting the BIRD routing daemon or a scooter
  Say instead: "My pet bird is not acting well, or my toy bird is broken"
- Says: "How do I start bird"
  Means: the person wants to begin keeping birds or start a bird-related hobby
  May be taken as: the model outputs Linux commands to launch the BIRD daemon
  Say instead: "How do I begin keeping pet birds at home"
- Says: "The bird went down"
  Means: a bird fell from the sky or a pet bird died
  May be taken as: the model diagnoses a network outage or scooter malfunction
  Say instead: "The bird, the animal, fell or died"

## Tips
- Say 'pet bird' or 'wild bird' to keep the meaning animal
- Say 'BIRD daemon' or 'routing software' if you mean the network tool
- Say 'Bird scooter' with the company name if you mean the vehicle
- Avoid 'the bird' alone when you mean Twitter; say 'Twitter' or 'X'
- Add context like 'in my yard' or 'at the park' to anchor the animal sense

## Often confused with
- birb: cute internet slang for bird, not a technical term
- BIRD: the routing daemon, always capitalized in docs
- birdie: golf score or diminutive, not the animal alone
- fowl: domestic birds for food, narrower than all birds
- avian: scientific adjective, more formal than bird