Keeping the bird from flying away is a parlor trick. Snatching it out of the air is the real gong fu.The king of the jungle knows this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3570896/Spitting-feathers-Lioness-sends-huge-flock-doves-flap-snatching-one-birds-sky-devouring-it.html
Another good one is tossing an apple into the air and catching and crushing it all on one motion. Not much gong fu involved but who cares?