diff --git a/net-misc/bird/Manifest b/net-misc/bird/Manifest
index 7756d86..9a28f1d 100644
--- a/net-misc/bird/Manifest
+++ b/net-misc/bird/Manifest
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ DIST bird-2.0.7.tar.gz 1993395 BLAKE2B ceb88d811d254e57e089ef4b4e1e4f34fd96d4622
 EBUILD bird-2.0.5.ebuild 825 BLAKE2B efa29eb7ab66033a1187916f708c75e894519b4109e22a82feff710b5ec6fe50573e9dc4eae8ac8e910275dbcfc42411e4a4fc15ace9d4124d346a829aa85177 SHA512 c89f767221063ec8c24b8eeb7f9a9e1dd414ca3725899851bbbf0d9ca0791b3fc453c8b3b850cd77ab08d791adedf0bf08737b2cfd1f37c90921a77ead07e989
 EBUILD bird-2.0.6.ebuild 825 BLAKE2B efa29eb7ab66033a1187916f708c75e894519b4109e22a82feff710b5ec6fe50573e9dc4eae8ac8e910275dbcfc42411e4a4fc15ace9d4124d346a829aa85177 SHA512 c89f767221063ec8c24b8eeb7f9a9e1dd414ca3725899851bbbf0d9ca0791b3fc453c8b3b850cd77ab08d791adedf0bf08737b2cfd1f37c90921a77ead07e989
 EBUILD bird-2.0.7.ebuild 917 BLAKE2B c19f3beba8e4d29a5177150ea51a8460d06628492d2bd3f29389be6213d72cb6dff12f19c2ae3f2fe69d4dd550488531f79c8ec8ff17652cdf8ba23c131faa07 SHA512 0bb492c72063374f095b57ed07de1afcb24e22bc5c51ddf658ab6e242d05ed646b2856005c00bd4dba2ba956caae3f0720a7999d8dcf3cd52dd79c0545357db7
+MISC metadata.xml 444 BLAKE2B 082a4eb4344d02de54f0fa9f1c43416525acc78554699448bcece4af1bf89aea398e92d921fa7d8d8845abae23c0f83dd8f49a80993e5d6dad9ff991c9b721e2 SHA512 eccf7951c932f94a197f2cf68143198f1d6bc3aea79ada96a8e093e7442dc1fff3e057ec549bad5dda39f767ac967e8920c4a861373902c13052b2b601ea0c35
diff --git a/net-misc/bird/metadata.xml b/net-misc/bird/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5abf70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/bird/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>chainsaw@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Tony Vroon</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="client">Build the ncurses/readline full featured CLI</flag>
+		<flag name="libssh">
+			Enables <pkg>net-libs/libssh</pkg> binding, mendatory for RPKI
+			support
+		</flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>