1.   The cages were full of brightly- coloured tropical birds.

2.   Three men are on trial for illegally smuggling tropical birds into the country.

3.   As she spoke, lounging on the deck of Los Flamingos hotel, the sea breeze carried the clinking of cocktail glasses and the lazy squawks of tropical birds.

4.   At night, the tropical birds let out some shrieks that nearly sounded human -- a bird being mugged, perhaps.

5.   At first she thought it was the cry of a tropical bird, perhaps belonging to the family next door.

6.   Bright-red conga drums sit in his living room like tall tropical birds by the side of a pool.

7.   But the onlookers cheered enthusiastically for a succession of marchers dressed as garbage cans, smokestacks spewing cotton and endangered tropical bird species.

8.   Cannadine has a long, serious face and large glasses that give him the look of a distinguished tropical bird.

9.   Features waterfalls, live tropical birds and fish, etc., and it bills itself as environmentally-conscious.

10.   Foreign merchants established markets in Changan to sell exotic spices and aromatics, camels, horses, tropical birds, jewelry, ivory and furs.