Can you open a Jpeg graphic and reduce its size without it becoming pixilated and blurry?

Hi I am new to Illustrator and photoshop.
I am designing a birthday poster on A4.  I recently received a graphic of a bird that is in JPE and PNG format. When I
opened the graphic it was huge - as big as the screen and looked fantastic, smooth outline and crystal clear.  Its a great
graphic but I want to make a border of small birds to outline the poster.  When I downsized the graphic by transforming
it to 10% its original size it looked really rubbish - all blurry and when i printed it out it was not very good at all!
I'm obviously completely new to Adobe software so i don't know all the correct terminology.  Basically I just want the graphic
of the bird to be alot  smaller and look as smooth and sleek as it does when its massive.  The graphic is 1200 x 1200 pixels
and i want it to be about 50 x 50.  How do I do it?  Can it be done? Or is all my efforts in vain!!!
A few people have said I need photoshop but when I tried it on there it still didn't work.  I'm wondering if its the graphic
that is the problem.
Thanks in advance for your help
Lauren

Go back to photoshop open the image in the in Phooshop then
1 go to Image>Image Size
2 uncheck at the bottom left the option to resample
3 make certain Constrain Proportions is checked
4 to the right of the width input field there is three drop downs on the top one select percent
5 then in the width change the percentage to 10%
6 now look at the resolution field if it is more than 300 or 355 ppi at this point check the resample art and change resolution setting to 300 or 355 ppi or what ever your printer prefers. It is not likely with this reduction it will be smaller than 300ppi.
7 now save the file with a different name using the Save As command.
8 place this file in Illustrator and make it symbol now place the symbols instances instead of copying it each time.

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