birdcage

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Plenty more dinosaurs will arrive in the film’s two-hour-plus running time: swooping Quetzalcoatlus, splashing Mosasaurus, frilled Dilophosaurus and a bitty Whoknowswhatasaurus that Ali’s Duncan keeps in a bamboo birdcage by his boat dock in Suriname.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

Mindy is bracingly funny but also masculine enough to intimidate Jerry, the delicate peacock in this gilded birdcage.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

In a rather tragic detail that feels straight out of a fable, Tiny Pinocchio was kept in a decorative metal birdcage when people visited the house to prevent him from accidentally getting squished.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2023

During one moment of digging, Volunteer Bekir Bicer uncovered a crushed birdcage, he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2023

But in his sudden elation, Jemmy banged into the wall with the birdcage.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman