Birds and dinosaurs have a strong evolutionary relationship.

Although
birds aren't dinosaurs, there is a lot of evidence showing that birds are
descendants from dinosaurs.

Recently, fossils of early birds and their ancestors have been collected.
This wealth of new fossils has settled the controversy of where birds
come from. Now a days we can accurately state that birds evolved from a
group of dinosaurs known as Maniraptoran Theropods, which are
generally small-meat eating dinosaurs. Some prime sources of evidence
are the scientic view of the similar shape of the bones of birds and a
variety of the dinosaurs, and a suite of features from the eggs of these
dinosaurs. A host of fossils have shown that not only did the dinosaurs
resemble birds in the way they laid their eggs, but that these eggs also
looked like the eggs of the birds.

There is a new study of ancient proteins retrieved from t-Rex fossils that
links the evolutionary connection between dinosaurs and modern
birds(Conks,2010) Scientists had reported that they had recovered the
partial molecular sequencing of T-Rex and mastodon proteins, they had
found samples of collagen, the main component of bone. Scientists were
even able to discover that mastodons and elephants are also closely
related. With just retrieving tiny sequenced pieces of fossil proteins, they
were able to establish many evolutionary relationships.(Asara,2010)

Birds and dinosaurs are very closely related, but birds aren't dinosaurs.
They are an entire di"erent species, if dinosaurs were to still exist today, it
would be physically impossible for them to reproduce with birds. Just like
Toucans and parakeets. Yes, they are very closely related but they are a
di"erent species, they are not able to o" spring.

There are many pieces of evidence you could nd to show that birds are
descended from dinosaurs. DNA proof, resemblance and many more.