All kinds of must be taken in the sense of “some of every kind or species.” The threefold division of the animal world is based on Genesis 6.20 (see also Genesis 1.24). Animals includes all animals, both domesticated and wild; and wild birds (see An American Translation* and Moffatt) translates “birds of air,” in which “of the air” is taken as the equivalent of wild, as opposed to domesticated. These classifications of animals, reptiles and wild birds should not be understood in any special technical sense. The most general terms which correspond roughly to these three categories are fully satisfactory, and in most languages there are terms which more or less correspond.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .