Calculating the Speed of a Bird Flying at an Angle

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Hi friends,
Plz. point me how to find the following:

A man on the ground sees a bird flying at angle of 60 degrees with horizontal.He started running at 120m/hour,is able to stay directly below the bird.What's bird speed?

Thanks in advance.
 
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IF the man is running at 120 metres/hr stays directly below the bird, what does that say about the horizontal component of the birds velocity? Given this and the angle, can you find it's actual velocity?

edit: sorry, I shouldn't really have helped withour seeing your efforts first-PF rules.. I don't know what came over me! In future please use the homework posting template with which you were provided.
 
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Have you drawn a diagram?

Show us any effort you have made?