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

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

The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage — a perfect metaphor — in a central location.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022

There's a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2020

The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien