Bird married fellow national champion rower
Michael Hart in late 1976, then competing as Pauline Hart until 1980. She was part of a composite quadruple sculls crew, that
1974 National Championships. Later that year she participated in the
1974 World Rowing Championships in
Lucerne, which was the inaugural championships for women. Competing in the quadruple sculls event the crew were eliminated in the heats. She won the double sculls with
Jackie Darling, rowing for a Civil Service and Weybridge Ladies composite and the quadruple sculls, at the
1975 National Rowing Championships, followed by the
1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, where the crew finished 9th overall after a third-place finish in the B final. She was selected to represent Great Britain in the
women's coxed fours event at the 1976 Olympics, with
Diana Bishop,
Clare Grove,
Gill Webb and
Pauline Wright, where they finished in eighth place. In 1977 she was part of the double scull that reached the final and finished fifth at the
1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam. This was the first time that a British women's crew had reached a world final. She won the
1977 National Championships and
1978 National Championships double sculls title rowing for
Kingston with
Astrid Ayling and the single sculls title in 1978. At the
1979 National Championships she was part of the composite crew that won the quadruple sculls. In 1980 she went to her second Olympic Games when as part of the
women's coxed four, the crew finished in sixth place. As part of the double sculls with Sandy Lutz she won the national title, at the
1983 National Rowing Championships. She represented
England and won two silver medals in the eight and the coxless pair with
Flo Johnston, at the
1986 Commonwealth Games in
Edinburgh,
Scotland. She won another national title in 1987 in the double sculls with Julia Spence rowing for the
Tideway Scullers School at the
1987 National Championships. ==References==