Displaying iCal Birthday Calendar instead of iPhone's

OK, so iOS4 has got a new built-in birthday calendar which pulls the birthday details from my Contacts and displays them in the Calendar view. And I found out I can turn it off in Settings. So far so good. But now it seems I can no longer view my iCal calendar (or subscription as it is called) for 'Birthdays' like I used to be able to do?
Why would I want to do this? I have a large database of contacts in Address Book on my Mac, many of whom I don't ever phone and thus don't include on the Group that I sync with my iPhone, so I have an uncluttered contact list. But I do want the birthdays for my iCal people to appear on my iPhone's Calendar.
Any suggestions please?

Dave, thanks for the suggestion. I was able to do a search as you suggested, highlight all the results, but when I tried to drag them... alas they won't drag.
Then I did another search in the Help topics of iCal to find how to do this. Lo and behold I found the topic "Moving all events and to-do items from one calendar to another"! Perfect. Followed those instructions, got all my birthdays imported into my newly created calendar, which I will now sync with my iPhone, and disable the iPhone's version. Hooray!

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I've just checked forward into 2014 and I see that it doesn't re-occur then.
Strange, it's just one person and it's only happening in 2013. Their birthday is on 31st March and there's and entry for 31st Mar and 1st April.
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