This movie and the original story by Daphne Du Maurier share no characters, and in fact have only in common the bayside town setting, the birds' bizarre behavior, their inexplicable tendency to launch frenzied attacks then fall dormant, only to attack again later, and of course the title. In Du Maurier's story, the main character discovers that this pattern is directly related to the rise and fall of the tides and uses this to their advantage, as opposed to this movie, which seems to follow the same pattern, but never makes a direct connection. Also, the original story takes place in Britain, and centers around a man protecting his wife and two children at their isolated cottage, as opposed to this movie, which centered on the spirited but troubled city dweller Melanie Daniels, who travelled to the California coast on a whim.

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