If you count every visible bird, including the smaller birds, I get 19 birds.
That is quite a difference from the “9” suggested by the text!
Here is the breakdown.
Top row
The first large bird on the upper left contains 1 bird.
The bird in the center is actually a group of 3 birds: one large bird and two smaller birds.
The large bird on the upper right is 1 bird.
That gives us:
1 + 3 + 1 = 5 birds
Middle row
The large bird on the left has two
