That statement “Birds are real” presupposes that the phenomena in question can be defined. What is a fish? It has been reported that fish ‘live’ in water. “But what is water? It’s a difficult question because water is impossible to describe. One might ask the same about birds, what are birds? We just will never know.”
Source: from: *Look Around You : season 1, (2001/2 pilot episode?), clip found on YouTube, posted by user FlatFootHero on 2011 08 12, see also Birds Arn’t Real, Boingboing, 2019 09 12 by Rob Beschizza and Birds Aren’t Real activists hold rally in Springfield, Missouri, BoingBoing, 2021 06 25 by David Pescovitz
Now, I’m off to get a jump on fitting into the society of the future by watering my plants with Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator™, ‘It has what plants crave!’.