Genesis 7:3

Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

1. The LORD also directed Noah to bring seven of each species of birds into the ark (it's not clear whether this applied to all birds or excluded those that cannot or tend not to fly).



2. It's not completely clear to me, but either the LORD referred to the role birds play in spreading plant seeds around the earth, or the expression "keep seed alive" refers either to preventing the bird species from becoming extinct or to providing food for man following the flood. The expression "upon all the face of the earth" leads me to favor the first possibility.