The bird that fly around are hard to hit early on in the game so they should not spit stuff out of there mouth but like dive from the air to attack or maybe fly down grab a rock with it mouth and throw it. Mini bird boss should throw acid out of it moth and fire but not regular alien bird Ps let them hover a little lower to hit at lest
The hunting bow is easily crafted early in the game. Grab one of those as quick as you can and those birds won't be much trouble any more. I do agree that it would be nice to see several different types of "starter birds" that have different attack/swooping tactics. Good idea man.