The Birds novel and film share little in common other than the fact that birds are jerks.
The novel, meanwhile, takes place in the United Kingdom’s Cornwall shortly after World War II, where a farmhand and his community must deal with the sudden bird attack.
Flocks of birds suddenly begin to attack everyone in town, and there’s essentially no defense from an endless swarm of beaks and talons.
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film, wealthy San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren, in a highly controversial performance) follows a love interest to his family home in an isolated California town by the bay, complete with an overprotective mother.