List of fictional birds

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Birds in legends, mythology, and religion

Abrahamic mythology

Judeo-Christian

• Noah's Dove
• Noah's Raven
• Ravens who fed Elijah
• Broxa
  Broxa
  
  In Jewish folklore Broxa is a bird that is said to suck the milk of goats during the night.References...
  

Talmudic

• Bar Juchne
  Bar Juchne
  
  Bar Juchne or Bar-Yuchnei is a colossal legendary bird from Jewish mythology which was believed to have a wingspan large enough to block out the sun....
  
• Ziz
  Ziz
  
  The ziz is a giant griffin like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan. It is considered a giant animal/monster corresponding to archetype creatures....
   - a giant bird said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.

African mythology

• Lightning Bird
  Lightning Bird
  
  The lightning bird is a real or imaginary bird superstitiously associated with special powers among southern African native peoples. The believed supernatural powers vary according to the traditions of different tribes....
   - a real or imaginary bird superstitiously associated with special powers, generally lightning.

Aztec mythology

• Quetzalcoatl
  Quetzalcoatl
  
  Quetzalcoatl is a benevolent and mythical deity, creator of humanity in the Toltec tradition, predating the Mexica deity. The name is a combination of quetzal, a brightly colored Mesoamerican bird, and wikt:coatl, meaning serpent....
   - a god of wind, creativity, and fertility, frequently depicted as a Feathered Serpent.

Egyptian mythology

• Ba
• Bennu
  Bennu
  
  The Bennu bird serves as the Egyptian correspondence to the Phoenix , and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra. Some of the titles of the Bennu bird were ?He Who Came Into Being by Himself,? ?Ascending One,? and ?Lord of Jubilees.? The name is related to the verb ?weben,? meaning ?to rise brilliantly,? or ?to shine.? The Bennu bird...
   - the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix, and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra.

Greek mythology

• Griffin
  Griffin
  
  The griffin is a fantasy creature with the body of a lion and the head and often wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature....
   - a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.
• Harpies - winged death-spirits.
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (mythology)
  
  The phoenix is a Mythologyical sacred fire bird which originated in the Sub-continent of India in ancient mythologies mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian religion and later the Sanchuniathon and the Greek Mythology....
   - a fire bird that's said to resurrect from the ashes.
• Sphinx
  Sphinx
  
  A sphinx is a zoomorphic mythological figure which is depicted as a recumbent lion with a human head. It has its origins in sculpted figures of Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt, to which the ancient Greeks applied their own name for a female monster, the "strangler", an archaic figure of Greek mythology....
   - a unique demon of destruction and bad luck represented as a winged lion with a woman's head.
• Stymphalian
  Stymphalian birds
  
  In Greek mythology, the Stymphalian birds were man-eating birds with wings of brass and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and were pets of Ares, the god of war....
   - kept as pets by Ares, they had metal feathers and noxious guano.

Hindu mythology

• Garuda
  Garuda
  
  The Garuda is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hinduism and Buddhism mythology.Garuda is the Hindu name for the constellation Aquila and the Brahminy kite is considered to be the contemporary representation of Garuda...
   - a lesser Hindu divinity, usually the mount (vahanam) of Vishnu.
• Jatayu - a demi-god who has the form of a vulture. KIA in battle
• Sampaati - brother to Jatayu.
• Aruna
  Aruna
  
  Aru?? According to Hindu mythology and Hinduism Hindu scriptures, Aru?? or Aru? refers to reddish glow of the rising Sun. Aru?? literally means redness of the rising Sun or "rising sun", which is believed to have spiritual powers....
   - older-brother to Garuda, father of Jatayu and Sampati, with deformed/half-formed lower limbs, charioteeer of Surya the Sun-God and absorbs much of his Heat, thus protecting the earth.
• Gandaberunda
  Gandaberunda
  
  The Gandaberunda is a two headed mythological bird of Hindu mythology thought to possess magical strength. It is used as the :Image:Karnataka emblem.png by the Karnataka government and it is seen as an intricately sculptured motif in Hindu temples....
   - The Gandaberunda (also known as the Berunda) is a two headed mythological bird of Hindu mythology thought to possess magical strength. It is used as the official emblem by the Karnataka government and it is seen as an intricately sculptured motif in Hindu temples.

Japanese mythology

• Ho-o
  Fenghuang
  
  Fenghuang are Chinese mythology birds of East Asia that reign over all other birds. The males are called Feng and the females Huang....
   - Japanese version of the Chinese Fenghuang.
• Kin-u
  Kin-U
  
  Kin-U is a town in the Sagaing Division in Myanmar.External links*[ Satellite map at Maplandia.com]...
  
• Suzaku - Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird.
• Yatagarasu - a 3-legged raven who belongs to the sun goddess Amaterasu.

Korean mythology

• Ju-jak
• Samjoko - A 3-legged bird associated with the sun.

Kwakiutl mythology

• Kwakwakalanooksiwae
• Hokhokw

Magyar mythology

• Turul
  Turul
  
  File:Turul badge hu.jpgTurul is the most important mythological bird of the origin myth of the Magyars .It is a messenger of god in Hungarian mythology, who sits on top of the tree of life along with the other spirits of unborn children in the form birds....
   - a large falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars.

Mayan mythology

• Camulatz - A bird that ate the heads of the first men.
• Tecumbalam
• Xecotcovach

Mexican

• The Cu Bird (el Pájaro Cu)

Native American mythology

• Pisia
• Firebird
  Fire bird (mythology)
  
  Fire-bird mythologys include:*Bennu *Huma *Simurgh *Phoenix *Phoenix *Firebird ...
  
• Raven
  Raven (mythology)
  
  Ravens are common characters in the traditional narratives and mythology around the world, notably a part of Indigenous peoples of North America, Siberian mythology, and Norse mythology....
   - representative spirit of actual ravens, and often depicted as a trickster or culture hero figure, even as the creator of human beings.
• Thunderbird
  Thunderbird (mythology)
  
  The Thunderbird is a legendary creature in Indigenous peoples of the Americas history and culture. It's considered a "supernatural" bird of power and strength....
   - an enormous bird that causes thunder and stirs the wind from the beating of its wings.

Norse mythology

• Habrok
  Hábrók
  
  In Norse mythology, H?br?k is, according to Gr?mnism?l, and quoted by Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning, as the "best of hawks" in a list containing various other names which represent the best of things....
   - the "best" hawk.
• Hraesvelg - a giant, who in eagle form, creates the wind by beating his wings.
• Hugin and Munin
  Hugin and Munin
  
  Huginn and Muninn, sometimes anglicised Hugin and Munin, are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin.In Norse mythology, Huginn and Muninn travel the world bearing news and information they have collected to Odin....
   (Thought and Memory) - a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin.
• Vedrfolnir - a hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of Yggdrasill, the World Tree.
• Víðópnir, a rooster that sits at the top of Mímameiðr (Yggdrasil).

Persian mythology

• Chamrosh
  Chamrosh
  
  Chamrosh is a bird in Persian mythology said to live on the summit of Mount Hara Berezaiti.Chamrosh is described as having the body of a dog with the head and wings of a bird....
   - a bird said to live on the summit of Mount Alborz and is the archetype of all birds, said to rule and protect all birds.
• Roc - an enormous mythical bird of prey, often white, reputed to have been able to carry off and eat elephants.
• Simurgh
  Simurgh
  
  Simorgh , sometimes spelled Simurg or Simoorg, also known as Angha , is the modern Persian language name for a fabulous, benevolent, mythical flying creature....
   - a gigantic, benevolent, mythical flying creature, often part dog or human.

Russian mythology

• Alkonost
  Alkonost
  
  The Alkonost is a legendary bird in Slavic mythology. It has the body of a bird with the head and chest of a woman. The name Alkonost came from the name of Greek mythology Alcyone transformed by gods into a kingfisher....
   - a bird of paradise with the body of a bird and the face of a woman, a derivative of Alcyone
  Alcyone
  
  In Greek mythology, Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale . She married Ceyx , son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star....
  .
• Gamayun - a prophetic bird that lives on an island in the east, close to paradise. It is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge and is a large bird with a woman's head.
• Sirin
  Sirin
  
  Sirin is a mythologyological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird . According to the myth, they lived "in Indian lands" near Garden of Eden or around the Euphrates River....
   - a mythological creature with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). Men who heard their songs would forget everything on earth, follow them, and ultimately die. Related to Sirens.
• Zhar-Ptitsa
  Firebird (Russian folklore)
  
  In Slavic folklore, the Firebird is a magical glowing bird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and bringer of doom to its captor.The Firebird is invariably described as a large bird in majestic plumage that brightly glows in red, orange and yellow light, like a bonfire that is just past the turbulent flame....
   (???-?????) - a magical glowing firebird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and bringer of doom to its captor.

Birds in literature

• Albatross
  Albatross
  
  Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariidae, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes ....
   in Mopsa the Fairy, novel by Jean Ingelow
  Jean Ingelow
  
  Jean Ingelow , was an England poet and novelist....
  .
• Albatross
  Albatross
  
  Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariidae, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes ....
   in Rime of the Ancient Mariner, epic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
  .
• Alien Birds, Yittleby and Yattleby (flightless birds called krylobos) in Wizard's Eleven and the Jinian books by Sheri S. Tepper
  Sheri S. Tepper
  
  Sheri Stewart Tepper is a prolific United States author of science fiction, horror fiction and mystery fiction novels; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant....
  .

• Bellbird
  Bellbird
  
  Bellbird is a name given to several kinds of bird, noted for their far-carrying bell-like call:* Neotropical Bellbirds * Crested Bellbird * New Zealand Bellbird ...
  s in Bellbirds, poem by Henry Kendall
  Henry Kendall
  
  Henry Kendall may refer to:*Henry Kendall , British stage and film character actor*Henry Kendall , Australian ornithologist*Henry Kendall , Australian poet...
  .
• Blackbird
  Blackbird
  
  The Common Blackbird , also called Eurasian Blackbird, or simply Blackbird is a species of true thrush which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced species to Australia and New Zealand....
  s, Jack and Jill on a hill, told to fly away in the nursery rhyme
  Nursery rhyme
  
  The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional? songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes? is still often used....
  
• Blackbird
  Blackbird
  
  The Common Blackbird , also called Eurasian Blackbird, or simply Blackbird is a species of true thrush which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced species to Australia and New Zealand....
  s The four and twenty of them, baked in a pie in the nursery rhyme
  Nursery rhyme
  
  The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional? songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes? is still often used....
  .
• Bullfinch
  Bullfinch
  
  * A Bullfinch is one of two groups of passerine birdsBullfinch can also refer to:* Bullfinch , an obstacle seen on the cross-country course in the sport of eventing...
   in On the Death of Mrs Throckmorton's Bullfinch, poem by William Cowper
  William Cowper
  
  William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside....
  .
• Canary
  Canary
  
  The Canary , also called the Island Canary, Atlantic Canary or Common Canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the finch family, Fringillidae....
  , Pip, Beth March's unfortunate canary in Little Women
  Little Women
  
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . Written and published in two parts in 1868 in literature and 1869 in literature, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters....
  , novel by Louisa May Alcott
• Canary
  Canary
  
  The Canary , also called the Island Canary, Atlantic Canary or Common Canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the finch family, Fringillidae....
  , unnamed, friendly and lively pet owned by Lawrence Boythorn in Bleak House
  Bleak House
  
  Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon....
  , novel by Charles Dickens
  Charles Dickens
  
  Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
  
• Chicken
  Chicken
  
  The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
  , Billina
  Billina
  
  Billina is a character in the List of Oz books of L. Frank Baum.She is a yellow chicken tossed overboard in a storm with Dorothy Gale in the novel Ozma of Oz, the third Oz book, and a sequel to L....
  , in numerous Land of Oz
  Land of Oz
  
  Oz is a fairy country containing four lands under the rule of high king.It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, one of many fairy countries that he created for his books....
   books by L. Frank Baum
  L. Frank Baum
  
  Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
  
• Chough
  Chough
  
  The Red-billed Chough or Chough , Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, is a bird in the crow family; it is one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax....
  , Oreb (a "night chough
  Chough
  
  The Red-billed Chough or Chough , Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, is a bird in the crow family; it is one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax....
  ", a fictitious crow-like species) in The Book of the Long Sun
  The Book of the Long Sun
  
  The Book of the Long Sun is a tetralogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun....
   and The Book of the Short Sun
  The Book of the Short Sun
  
  The Book of the Short Sun is a trilogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. It is the sequel to Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun, and has connections to The Book of the New Sun....
   by Gene Wolfe
  Gene Wolfe
  
  Gene Wolfe is an United States science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic....
  ; also various hawk
  Hawk
  
  The term hawk can be used in several ways:* In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genus Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis....
  s and "the white-headed one", some kind of vulture
  Vulture
  
  Vultures are scavenger birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Vultures are found on every continent except Antarctica and Oceania....
  .
• Condor
  Condor
  
  Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere....
  s, the twin white condors in The Legend of the Condor Heroes
  The Legend of the Condor Heroes
  
  The Legend of Condor Heroes is one of the most acclaimed wuxia novels by Jinyong, first published in 1957 in Hong Kong Commercial Daily....
   and The Return of the Condor Heroes
  The Return of the Condor Heroes
  
  The Return of the Condor Heroes is a classic wuxia novel written by Louis Cha, first published on May 20, 1959 in the first issue of Ming Pao and ran for about three years....
  
• Condor
  Condor
  
  Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere....
  , the divine condor in The Return of the Condor Heroes
  The Return of the Condor Heroes
  
  The Return of the Condor Heroes is a classic wuxia novel written by Louis Cha, first published on May 20, 1959 in the first issue of Ming Pao and ran for about three years....
  

• Crane
  Crane (bird)
  
  Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back....
   in The Crane is my Neighbour, poem by John Shaw Neilson.
• Crow
  Crow
  
  The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
  , in Crow
  Crow (poetry)
  
  Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by Ted Hughes and one of Hughes' most important works.It is a collection of poems based around the character Crow, which borrow extensively from many world mythology, notably Christian mythology....
  , by Ted Hughes
  Ted Hughes
  
  Edward James Hughes Order of Merit was an England poet and Children's literature, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation....
  
• Crow
  Crow
  
  The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
   in Johnny Crow's Garden, series of children's books illustrated by L. Leslie Brookes
• Crow
  Crow
  
  The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
   and Oriole
  Oriole
  
  Orioles are colourful Old World passerine birds in the family Oriolidae and genus Oriolus. They are not related to the New World orioles, which are Icterids, family Icteridae....
   in The Crow and the Oriole, fable, James Thurber
  James Thurber
  
  James Grover Thurber was an United States author, cartoonist and celebrated wit.Thurber was best known for his contributions to The New Yorker magazine....
  , also The Owl Who was God, and The Shrike and the Chipmunks
• Cuckoo
  Cuckoo
  
  The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos ....
   in The Cuckoo Clock, novel by Mrs. Molesworth.
• Cuckoo
  Cuckoo
  
  The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos ....
   in To the Cuckoo, poem by William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  
  William Wordsworth was a major England Romantic poetry poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  .
• Dodo
  Dodo
  
  The dodo was a flightless bird Endemism to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to Columbidae, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about , living on fruit and nesting on the ground....
  , Pickwick, from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
  Jasper Fforde
  
  Jasper Fforde is an England novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written another series, the Nursery Crime Stories series....
  
• Dove
  Dove
  
  Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine Aves....
   carrying a sprig flies to Noah
  Noah
  
  Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
  , indicating the end of the Flood
  Flood
  
  A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
   in Book of Genesis
  Genesis
  
  Genesis or Breishit is the first book of the Bible used by Judaism and Christianity, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah....
  
• Duck
  Duck
  
  Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a clade but a form taxon, being the Anatidae not considered swans and goose....
   in Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
  Martin Waddell
  
  Martin Waddell is a prolific, award winning children's literature author. He has lived most of his life in Newcastle, County Down, Ireland and is most famous for his engaging Big Bear, Little Bear and Little Dracula series....
   and Helen Oxenbury
  Helen Oxenbury
  
  Helen Oxenbury is a renowned illustrator of many classic picture books. Ms. Oxenbury lives with her husband, illustrator John Burningham, in North London....
  .
• Eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
  , The E-Telekeli (a humanoid eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
  ) leader of the Underpeople in the works of Cordwainer Smith
  Cordwainer Smith
  
  Cordwainer Smith ? pronounced CORDwainer ? was the pseudonym used by United States author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works....
  
• Eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
   in The Eagle
  The Eagle
  
  The Eagle could refer to:...
  , poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
• Eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
  , Thorondor, king of the eagles in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
  
• Eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
  , Farsight, in the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
  
• Eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
  s, Gwaihir and Landroval, in The Lord of the Rings
  The Lord of the Rings
  
  The Lord of the Rings is an Epic poetry high fantasy novel written by Philology J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work....
  , also by Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
  
• Flit-Cat, Peck, and Farthingfeather, a trio of House Sparrow
  House Sparrow
  
  The House Sparrow is a member of the Old World sparrow family sparrow, considered by some to be a relative of the Weaver Finch Family. It occurs naturally in most of Europe and much of Asia....
  s from The Kine Saga
  The Kine Saga
  
  The Kine Saga is a heroic fantasy trilogy written by United Kingdom author Alan Lloyd . It comprises Kine , Witchwood and Dragon Pond , and chronicles the life of a wild Least Weasel, Kine....
  .
• Goldfinch
  Goldfinch
  
  Goldfinch may refer to any of the following species of bird from the genus Carduelis* American Goldfinch, Carduelis tristis* European Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis...
  , Miss Goldfinch the elder and Miss Clara Goldfinch, who have a tea and coffee tavern in Beatrix Potter
  Beatrix Potter
  
  Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycology and Conservation movement who was best known for her many best-selling Children's literature that featured animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit....
  's The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
  The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
  
  The Tale of Little Pig Robinson is a children's book published by Beatrix Potter in 1930. Potter spent a holiday in Lyme Regis when she was seventeen, and used views of Lyme Regis, nearby Sidmouth, Ilfracombe, Hastings, and Teignmouth to illustrate this book....
  
• Hawk
  Hawk
  
  The term hawk can be used in several ways:* In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genus Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis....
  , Tobias
  Tobias (Animorphs)
  
  Tobias is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs written by K.A. Applegate. His surname is never mentioned, but had the Ellimist not altered time in order to take his father, Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, back to his old life, his full name would have been Tobias Fangor, the family name adopted by Elfangor when he...
  , a human who becomes stuck in the body of a red-tailed hawk
  Red-tailed Hawk
  
  The Red-tailed Hawk is a medium-sized bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "Chickenhawk ," though it rarely preys on chickens....
   in the Animorphs
  Animorphs
  
  Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult literature written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic Press....
   series by K. A Applegate
• Hen
  Chicken
  
  The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
  , Sally Henny-penny, who re-opens the shop in Beatrix Potter
  Beatrix Potter
  
  Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycology and Conservation movement who was best known for her many best-selling Children's literature that featured animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit....
  's Story of Ginger and Pickles
• Hen
  Chicken
  
  The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
  , the black hen in the "Hickety, pickety" nursery rhyme
  Nursery rhyme
  
  The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional? songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes? is still often used....
  , anonymous.
• Kestrel
  Kestrel
  
  The name kestrel is given to several different members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around 10?20 m over open country and swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects....
  , Tawny Owl
  Tawny Owl
  
  The Tawny Owl is a stocky, medium-sized owl which is common in woodlands across much of Eurasia. Its underparts are pale with dark streaks, and the upperparts are either brown or grey, with several of the eleven recognised subspecies having both variants....
  , Mr. Pheasant and several others in Animals of Farthing Wood
• Kingfisher
  Kingfisher
  
  Kingfishers are small bright colored birds of the three families Alcedinidae , Halcyonidae , and Cerylidae . There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher....
   in The Kingfisher, poem by W. H. Davies
  W. H. Davies
  
  William Henry Davies or W H Davies was a Wales poet and writer....
  .
• Kingfisher
  Kingfisher
  
  Kingfishers are small bright colored birds of the three families Alcedinidae , Halcyonidae , and Cerylidae . There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher....
   in Day of the Kingfisher, poem by Paul Grano
  Paul Grano
  
  Paul Langton Grano was an Australian poet and journalist....
  .
• Kite
  Kite (bird)
  
  Kites are Bird of preys with long wings and weak legs which spend a great deal of time soaring. Most feed mostly on carrion but some take various amounts of live prey....
  , Chil
  Chil
  
  Chil is a kite that helps Mowgli in the story Kaa's Hunting in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Chil helps Mowgli when he has been captured by the Bandar-log, a disordered troop of langur monkeys....
  , in The Jungle Book
  The Jungle Book
  
  The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling....
   and The Second Jungle Book
  The Second Jungle Book
  
  The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont....
   by Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
  .
• Lory, duck
  Duck
  
  Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a clade but a form taxon, being the Anatidae not considered swans and goose....
  , dodo
  Dodo
  
  The dodo was a flightless bird Endemism to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to Columbidae, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about , living on fruit and nesting on the ground....
   and flamingos in Alice in Wonderland, fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an England author, mathematics, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer....
  .
• Nightingale
  Nightingale
  
  The Nightingale , also known as Rufous and Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae....
   in The Emperor and the Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  
  Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
  .
• Nightingale
  Nightingale
  
  The Nightingale , also known as Rufous and Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae....
   in The Decameron
  The Decameron
  
  The Decameron is a collection of 100 novellas by Italy author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a Medieval allegory work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic....
  , stories by Bocaccio
  Bocaccio
  
  Bocaccio could be :* Misspelled Giovanni Boccaccio;* Bocaccio rockfish, a variety of fish found on the western coast of the United States and Canada....
  .
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  , Archimedes, and various hawk
  Hawk
  
  The term hawk can be used in several ways:* In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genus Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis....
  s, falcon
  Falcon
  
  A falcon is any species of bird of prey in the genus Falco. The word comes from their Latin name falco, related to Latin falx because of the shape of these birds' wings....
  s, and white-fronted geese in The Once and Future King
  The Once and Future King
  
  The Once and Future King is an Arthurian fantasy novel written by T. H. White. It was first published in 1958 and is mostly a composite of earlier works....
   by T. H. White
  T. H. White
  
  Terence Hanbury White was an England author best known for his sequence of King Arthur novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958....
  
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  , Old Brown, in Beatrix Potter
  Beatrix Potter
  
  Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycology and Conservation movement who was best known for her many best-selling Children's literature that featured animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit....
  's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
  The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
  
  The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's story written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, first published by Frederick Warne in 1903. As the story itself says, it is "a Tale about a tail - a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel" whose name is Nutkin....
  
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  , Owl
  Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
  
  Owl is a fictional character in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and in Disney's Winnie the Pooh cartoons. Owl's character is obviously based on the stereotype of the "wise old owl", although in the books, the quality of Owl's "wisdom" is sometimes questionable....
   in the Winnie the Pooh
  Winnie the Pooh
  
  Winnie the Pooh is a Walt Disney Company Media franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the List of Disney characters....
   books by A. A. Milne
  A. A. Milne
  
  Alan Alexander Milne was an England author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work....
  
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  , Hedwig, (a snowy owl
  Snowy Owl
  
  The Snowy Owl is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals....
  ) in the Harry Potter
  Harry Potter
  
  Harry Potter is a Heptalogy fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter , together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....
   novels by J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling Order of the British Empire , who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a United Kingdom author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990....
  ; also many other owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  s including Pigwidgeon, Hermes and Errol, used to carry messages.
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in The White Owl in the Belfry Sits, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in the Little Grey Rabbit books by Alison Uttley
  Alison Uttley
  
  Alison Uttley , n?e Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig....
  .
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in the Guardians of Ga'hoole
  Guardians of Ga'hoole
  
  Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a children's fiction book series written by Kathryn Lasky and illustrated by Richard Chowder. There is also an upcoming movie of the same name, based on the series....
   books by Kathryn Lasky
  Kathryn Lasky
  
  Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several The Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey , and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series....
  .
• Parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  , Captain Flint, in Treasure Island
  Treasure Island
  
  Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island....
  , novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
  
• Parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  , Polynesia, in Dr. Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting
  Hugh Lofting
  
  Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle ? one of the classics of children's literature....
  .
• Parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  , A sarcastic parrot belonging to the title character in Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  
  Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
  's Faust Eric
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (mythology)
  
  The phoenix is a Mythologyical sacred fire bird which originated in the Sub-continent of India in ancient mythologies mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian religion and later the Sanchuniathon and the Greek Mythology....
   in E. Nesbit
  E. Nesbit
  
  Edith Nesbit was an England author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of Children's literature, several of which have been adapted for film and television....
  's The Phoenix and the Carpet
  The Phoenix and the Carpet
  
  The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It , and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists ? Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb....
  
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (mythology)
  
  The phoenix is a Mythologyical sacred fire bird which originated in the Sub-continent of India in ancient mythologies mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian religion and later the Sanchuniathon and the Greek Mythology....
  , Fawkes, in the Harry Potter
  Harry Potter
  
  Harry Potter is a Heptalogy fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter , together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....
   novels by J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling Order of the British Empire , who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a United Kingdom author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990....
  
• Pigeon in Mrs Peck Pigeon, poem by Eleanor Farjeon
  Eleanor Farjeon
  
  Eleanor Farjeon was an England author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Some of her correspondence has also been published....
  .
• Pigeons, Pigeons on the grass, alas, from a poem by Gertrude Stein
  Gertrude Stein
  
  Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and Modernist literature....
  
• Pigeons, owls
  OWLS
  
  OWLS is a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots to assess an unprepared surface for a precautionary landing.Like all mnemonics this check has become part of aviation culture and folklore....
  , hens
  Chicken
  
  The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
  , and an eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
   in James Thurber
  James Thurber
  
  James Grover Thurber was an United States author, cartoonist and celebrated wit.Thurber was best known for his contributions to The New Yorker magazine....
  's taking issue with Stein's pigeon passage – the story There's an Owl in My Room
• Raptor
  Bird of prey
  
  Birds of prey are birds that hunt for food primarily on the wing, using their keen senses, especially vision. Their claws and beaks tend to be relatively large, powerful and adapted for tearing and/or piercing flesh....
  s, numerous bond-birds in the Velgarth
  Velgarth
  
  Velgarth is a fictional continent, set on an as-yet-unnamed planet, created by author Mercedes Lackey, and is the setting for all novels thus far published in the Valdemar Saga, so-named as most novels in some way pertain to, take place in or otherwise involve that country....
   books by Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a prolific United States author of Fantasy literature. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Velgarth#Valdemar....
  , mostly raptors, usually selectively-bred for size and intelligence
• Raven
  Raven
  
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus —but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied....
   in "The Raven
  The Raven
  
  "The Raven" is a narrative poetry by the United States writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere....
  ," poem by Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
  .
• Raven
  Raven
  
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus —but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied....
  , Quoth (a raven
  Raven
  
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus —but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied....
  ) in the works of Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  
  Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
   (a pun on "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe)
• Raven
  Raven
  
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus —but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied....
  s, Roäc and Cärc, two ravens from The Hobbit
  The Hobbit
  
  The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an award-winning Juvenile fantasy and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in the tradition of the fairy tale....
  , also by Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
  
• Raven
  Raven
  
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus —but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied....
  , Zoltan, in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  
  Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....
  .
• Robin
  European Robin
  
  The European Robin , or, in Anglophone Europe, simply Robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family , but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher ....
  , the Sparrow
  Sparrow
  
  The "true sparrows", the Old World sparrows in the family Passeridae, are small passerine birds. As eight or more species nest in or near buildings, and the House Sparrow and Eurasian Tree Sparrow in particular inhabit cities in large numbers, sparrows may be the most familiar of all wild birds....
  , the Rook
  Rook (bird)
  
  The Rook is a member of the Corvidae family in the passerine order of birds. Named by Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering"....
   and the Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in Who Killed Cock Robin?
  Cock Robin
  
  Who Killed Cock Robin is a nursery rhyme beginning:OriginsThe story has been connected with Robin Hood:There is, however, no direct indication in the text of the rhyme to support this claim beyond the simple similarity of name....
  
• Robin
  European Robin
  
  The European Robin , or, in Anglophone Europe, simply Robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family , but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher ....
   in The Secret Garden
  The Secret Garden
  
  The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1911 in literature. Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary....
  , novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  Frances Hodgson Burnett was an England?United States playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy....
  .
• Robin
  European Robin
  
  The European Robin , or, in Anglophone Europe, simply Robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family , but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher ....
   of the "Little Robin Redbreast" nursery rhyme
  Nursery rhyme
  
  The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional? songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes? is still often used....
  .
• The Roly-Poly Bird
  Roly-Poly Bird
  
  "The Roly-Poly Bird" is a fictional character, that, like the Vermicious knids and Muggle-Wump the monkey is made reference to in more than one child's book by Roald Dahl- in two cases alongside Muggle-Wump....
   from several of Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl
  
  Roald Dahl was a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian people parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, In which he became a flying ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both Children's literature and adults, and became one of the world's bes...
  's books for children.
• Rooster
  Rooster
  
  A rooster, also called a cock or chanticleer is a male chicken , the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year's age are called cockerels....
   and hen, Chanticleer
  Chanticleer
  
  Chanticleer can refer to:*Chanticleer, a rooster appearing in fables surrounding the fables of Reynard the Fox. The most famous of these is probably the Nun's Priest's Tale, a version of which is told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales....
   and Pertelote (his favorite hen) in "The Nun's Priest's Tale
  Chanticleer and the Fox
  
  File:CiceroEpistulaeAdFamiliaresVenice1547page329Detail.jpgThe Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer....
  " by Geoffrey Chaucer
  Geoffrey Chaucer
  
  Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, Bureaucracy, Noble court and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales....
  
• Seagull, Kehaar, in Watership Down
  Watership Down
  
  Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by United Kingdom author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are Anthropomorphism, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology....
  
• Seagull, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a gull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection....
  , eponymous character in a short story by Richard Bach
  Richard Bach
  
  Richard David Bach is an United States writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions , and others....
  . The story has other gull characters as well.
• Skylark
  Skylark
  
  The Skylark is a small passerine bird species. This lark breeds across most of Europe and Asia and in the mountains of north Africa. It is mainly resident in the west of its range, but eastern populations are more bird migration, moving further south in winter....
   in Ode to a Skylark
  To a Skylark
  
  Percy Bysshe Shelley completed the poem entitled "To a Skylark" in late June 1820.It was written near Livorno, Italy. It was inspired by an evening walk in the country with Mary Shelley, and describes the appearance and song of a skylark they come upon....
  , poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major England Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest Lyric poetry in the English language....
  .
• Snow Goose
  Snow Goose
  
  The Snow Goose , also known as the Blue Goose, is a North American species of goose. Its name derives from the typically white plumage. The genus of this bird is disputed....
  , the final form of Kaisa
  Kaisa
  
  Kaisa may refer to:*Kaisa, the Finnish variant of Russian pyramid, a billiards game*Serafina Pekkala, a character in the His Dark Materials novel series by Philip Pullman...
  , the dæmon of the witch Serafina Pekkala in the His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials
  
  His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy literature by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ....
   trilogy by Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman
  
  Philip Pullman Order of the British Empire is an England novelist. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials , and a number of other books....
  .
• Snow goose
  Snow Goose
  
  The Snow Goose , also known as the Blue Goose, is a North American species of goose. Its name derives from the typically white plumage. The genus of this bird is disputed....
   in The Snow Goose
  The Snow Goose
  
  The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk is a short novella by the United States of America author Paul Gallico. It was first published in 1940 as a short-story in The Saturday Evening Post, then he expanded it to create a short novella which was first published on April 7, 1941....
  , novel by Paul Gallico
  Paul Gallico
  
  Paul William Gallico was a successful American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation....
  .
• Stork, (presumably a white stork
  White Stork
  
  The White Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae, breeding in the warmer parts of Europe , northwest Africa, and southwest Asia ....
  ) and a kingfisher
  Kingfisher
  
  Kingfishers are small bright colored birds of the three families Alcedinidae , Halcyonidae , and Cerylidae . There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher....
   (presumably a belted kingfisher
  Belted Kingfisher
  
  The Belted Kingfisher is a large, conspicuous and noisy water kingfisher, the only member of that group commonly found in the northern United States and Canada....
  ) in Little, Big
  Little, Big
  
  Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982....
   by John Crowley
  John Crowley
  
  John Crowley is an United States author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University Bloomington and has a second career as a documentary film writer....
  
• Sukh-Shari
  Sukh-Shari
  
  An imaginary pair of birds who appears in Bangla Rupkatha....
  , in Thakurmar Jhuli
  Thakurmar Jhuli
  
  Thakurmar Jhuli is a collection of Bengali language folk tales and fairy tales. Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder was the person who first collected some folk-stories of Bengal and published it under the name of Thakurmar Jhuli in 1907 ....
  , appears commonly in Bangla fairy tales Rupkatha.
• Swan
  Swan
  
  Swans are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes goose and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini....
  , in The Ugly Duckling
  The Ugly Duckling
  
  'The Ugly Duckling' is a fairy tale by Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published 11 November 1843 in New Fairy Tales. First Book....
  , (actually a cygnet
  Swan
  
  Swans are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes goose and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini....
  ) in the story of that name by Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  
  Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
  .
• Swan
  Swan
  
  Swans are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes goose and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini....
  , in The Trumpet of the Swan
  The Trumpet of the Swan
  
  The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a Trumpeter Swan born without a voice and trying to overcome it by learning to play a trumpet, always trying to impress a beautiful swan named Serena....
  , Louis (Louie in the film) is the mute swan who plays a trumpet as his voice.
• Swallow
  Swallow
  
  The swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding....
   in The Happy Prince, story by Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
  .
• Various birds in The Birds
  The Birds (story)
  
  "The Birds" is a famous novelette by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree . It is the story of a farmhand and his family who are attacked by a massive number of birds....
  , story by Daphne du Maurier
  Daphne du Maurier
  
  Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning Order of the British Empire was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca , which won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1941, Jamaica Inn , and her short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now....
  .
• Soren
  Soren
  
  Soren may refer to:*Soren car an Iranian car made by Iran Khodro company.*Shibu Soren, an Indian politician sentenced for murder.*S?ren Kierkegaard, a 19th century philosophy Denmark philosopher....
   in The Guardians of Ga'Hoole
  Guardians of Ga'hoole
  
  Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a children's fiction book series written by Kathryn Lasky and illustrated by Richard Chowder. There is also an upcoming movie of the same name, based on the series....
   series by Kathryn Lasky
  Kathryn Lasky
  
  Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several The Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey , and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series....
  
• Watchman, a Rook, from The Kine Saga
  The Kine Saga
  
  The Kine Saga is a heroic fantasy trilogy written by United Kingdom author Alan Lloyd . It comprises Kine , Witchwood and Dragon Pond , and chronicles the life of a wild Least Weasel, Kine....
  
• The Wind Up Bird the unseen character in Haruki Murakami
  Haruki Murakami
  
  is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex"....
  's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  
  is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997 in literature....
  
• Many species in Aesop's Fables
  Aesop's Fables
  
  Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop , a Slavery and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, especially beast fables involving Anthropomorphism animals....
  
• Many species in The Conference of the Birds
  The Conference of the Birds
  
  The Conference of the Birds is a book of poems in Persian language by Farid ud-Din Attar of approximately 4500 lines. The poem uses a journey by a group of 30 birds, led by a hoopoe as an allegory of a Sufi sheikh or master leading his pupils to enlightenment....
  , a Persian book of poems by Farid ud-Din Attar.
• Many species in La Fontaine
  Jean de La Fontaine
  
  Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous France Fable and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Victor Hugo....
  's fables.
• Many species in Brian Jacques
  Brian Jacques
  
  James Brian Jacques is an British literature, best known for his Redwall series of novels, as well as the Tribes of Redwall Badgers and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series....
  's Redwall
  Redwall
  
  Redwall is a series of fantasy novels by Brian Jacques. It is the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, the name of the Abbey featured in the book, and the name of an Redwall based on three of the characters , which first aired in 1999....
   novels.
• Many species in Thornton Burgess
  Thornton Burgess
  
  Thornton Waldo Burgess . Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, he was a Conservation ethic and author of Children's literature....
  's children's stories.
• Many species including the Ratbird in Paul Stewart
  Paul Stewart (writer)
  
  Paul Stewart is a writer of children's literature, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series among others....
  's Edge Chronicles series.
• Many species in Garry Kilworth
  Garry Kilworth
  
  Garry Douglas Kilworth is a fantasy and historical novelist.Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London. He was previously a science fiction author, having published one hundred twenty short stories and seventy novels....
  's Welkin Weasels
  Welkin Weasels
  
  Welkin Weasels is a series of fantasy novels by United Kingdom author Garry Kilworth. As of 2003, it consists of six books, all published by Random House's Corgi Juvenile imprint....
   series.

Birds on the radio

• The Wise Old Bird on the planet Brontitall in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a Comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon....
  .

Birds in animation, comics, puppetry, and theme parks

• Abelardo Montoya, a very big parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  , Big Bird
  Big Bird
  
  Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame Street, which airs on Public Broadcasting Service. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends....
  's Mexican counterpart on Plaza Sesamo
  Plaza Sésamo
  
  Plaza S?samo is a Mexico educational children's television program for preschoolers and is a co-pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, along with its predecessor Sesame Street, combining both education and entertainment....
  
• The Aracuan Bird, in various Walt Disney cartoons
• Archimedes, an owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in Disney's The Sword in the Stone
  The Sword in the Stone (film)
  
  The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 in film animated feature film produced by Walt Disney originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963....
  
• Avianthoth, a half man half bird, from the animated series "Avianthoth: Religion Nation"
• Avenger
  Avenger
  
  Avenger may refer to one who seeks revenge. Other uses include:In the military*Avro Avenger, biplane fighter design* HMS Avenger, ships in the Royal Navy...
  , an eagle
  Eagle
  
  Eagles are large bird of prey which are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several Genus which are not necessarily closely related to each other....
   from the Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera
  
  Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
   cartoon, Birdman
  Birdman
  
  Birdman may refer to:* Birdman of Alcatraz , a 1962 film* Birdman , a novel by Mo Hayder* Radio Birdman, a 1970s Australian punk/garage group...
  
• Beaky Buzzard
  Beaky Buzzard
  
  Beaky Buzzard is an animation cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Beaky is a fat buzzard with black body feathers and a white tuft around his throat....
  , a buzzard
  Buzzard
  
  A buzzard is one of several large birds, but there are a number of meanings as detailed below....
   in the Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
   and Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
   cartoons and his Mama
  Mama Buzzard
  
  Mama Buzzard is the mother of the fictional Beaky Buzzard and is voiced by Sara Berner and June Foray....
  
• Big Bird
  Big Bird
  
  Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame Street, which airs on Public Broadcasting Service. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends....
  , a very big canary
  Canary
  
  The Canary , also called the Island Canary, Atlantic Canary or Common Canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the finch family, Fringillidae....
  , and Little Bird
  Little Bird
  
  Little Bird can refer to:* MH-6 Little Bird, a military attack hellicopter.* an independent production company* a Native American name* a Sesame Street character...
   on Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• Big Mama, an owl in the Disney film The Fox and the Hound
  The Fox and the Hound (film)
  
  The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions, first released to movie theatres in the United States on July 10, 1981....
  
• Birdy
  Kira Yamato
  
  is a fictional character in the Gundam universe. He is the main protagonist of the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny....
  , Kira Yamato
  Kira Yamato
  
  is a fictional character in the Gundam universe. He is the main protagonist of the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and an important character in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny....
  's robotic pet created by Athrun Zala
  Athrun Zala
  
  is a fictional character from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, set in the Cosmic Era timeline of the Gundam metaseries....
   as a parting gift; Gundam Seed
• Birdie the Early Bird
  McDonaldland
  
  McDonaldland was a fantasy world, inhabited by Ronald McDonald and other characters, which was formerly used in marketing for McDonald's. In addition to being used in advertising, the characters were used as the basis for equipment in the playgrounds attached to some McDonald's....
   from Mc Donald's
• Blackbird, a pirate (based on Blackbeard
  Blackbeard
  
  Edward Thatch , better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious England pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean during the early 18th century, a period referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy....
  ) in The Legend Of Anne Bunny
• Booker, a baby chick in Garfield and Friends
  Garfield and Friends
  
  Garfield and Friends is an United States animated television series based on comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis . This show was produced by Film Roman, and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from 1988 to 1994 and Nickelodeon from 1997 to 2000....
  
• Buzz Buzzard in Woody Woodpecker
  Woody Woodpecker
  
  Woody Woodpecker is an animation fictional character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios....
  
• Buzby, yellow bird of unspecified species in advertisements for British Telecom in the late 1970s/early 1980s
• Gallina Caponata, a big (theoretical) chicken similar to Big Bird in Spanish version of Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• Cackle Sisters, elegant chickens from Kissyfur
  Kissyfur
  
  Kissyfur is a 1980s Animated cartoon children's television series debuted on NBC, produced by Jean Chalopin & Andy Heyward, and created by Phil Mendez....
  
• Camilla
  Camilla (muppet)
  
  Camilla is the female chicken that is Gonzo love interest on The Muppet Show. This chicken with hay fever is performed by veteran Muppet performer, Jerry Nelson, and is seen frequently on The Muppet Show, but also makes appearances on the various full-length Muppet movies such as The Muppets Take Manhattan where she hyperventilates a...
  , a chicken
  Chicken
  
  The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
   and Gonzo's romantic interest on The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show
  
  The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of The Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street....
  
• Cathryn Aura and her son Nigel, vultures in Kevin and Kell
  Kevin and Kell
  
  Kevin and Kell is a furry fandom comedy webcomic strip by syndicated cartoonist Bill Holbrook. The strip began on September 3, 1995. It is one of the oldest continuously running webcomics....
  
• Charlie the Owl in the New Zoo Revue
  New Zoo Revue
  
  'New Zoo Revue' is an United States half-hour children's television show that originally aired in syndication from 1972 until 1977. Stations usually broadcast the program in the early or middle part of the morning hours, when many pre-schoolers were watching it as well as similar shows such as the franchised Romper Room and CBS's Capt...
  
• Chicken Pig of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
  Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
  
• Clay and Walter, pigeons from Between the Lions
  Between the Lions
  
  Between the Lions is a PBS Kids' puppet show designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH-TV in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting....
  
• Concord Condor a Tiny Toons Adventures character
• Condorito
  Condorito
  
  Condorito is a comic strip starring a personification of an antropomorphical condor living in a fictitious town named Pelotillehue ? a setting typical of many small Chilean provincial towns....
    Condorito is a Chilean comic strip. Condorito is very popular throughout Latin America, where the character is considered part of the general popular culture, and has a growing readership in the United States as well.
• Cow and Chicken
  Cow and Chicken
  
  Cow and Chicken is an Emmy Award-nominated United States list of animated television series, created by David Feiss. The series shows the adventures of a cow, named Cow, and her chicken brother, named Chicken....
  
• The Crow
  The Crow
  
  The Crow is a comic book ongoing series created by James O'Barr. The series was originally written by O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a drunk driver....
  is a comic about a superhero associated with a crow
  Crow
  
  The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
  
• The crows in Dumbo
  Dumbo
  
  Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Disney animated features canon, Dumbo is based upon a child's book of the same name by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl....
  
• Crow T. Robot
  Crow T. Robot
  
  Crow T. Robot is a fictional character from the United States science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Crow is a robot, who, along with others, quips and riffs upon poor-quality B movies....
  , bird-like robot character from Mystery Science Theater 3000
  Mystery Science Theater 3000
  
  Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an United States cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains that ran from 1988 in television to 1999 in television....
  
• Dave and Ping Pong,Larrison, Mort 'Almondine in Camp Lazlo
  Camp Lazlo
  
  Camp Lazlo is a American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It currently airs on Cartoon Network....
  
• Diablo
  Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
  
  Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution....
  , Maleficent's
  Maleficent
  
  Maleficent is a Magician , the self-proclaimed, "mistress of all evil" and main antagonist in Walt Disney's 1959 adaptation of Sleeping Beauty ....
   raven
  Raven
  
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus —but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied....
  , in Disney's animated version of Sleeping Beauty
  Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
  
  Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution....
  
• The last of the Dodo
  Dodo
  
  The dodo was a flightless bird Endemism to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to Columbidae, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about , living on fruit and nesting on the ground....
  s in Looney Tunes
• Dodo from Animal Crackers
  Animal Crackers (TV series)
  
  The Animal Crackers is a 1997 television series produced by Alphanim and Cookie Jar, about a group of animals that live in a fictional jungle called Freeborn, is based on the comic strip Animal Crackers ....
  
• Dr. Nitwhite, pelican "inventor", Between the Lions
  Between the Lions
  
  Between the Lions is a PBS Kids' puppet show designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH-TV in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting....
  
• Emily & Agatha, a two-headed vulture featured in the 1963 Looney Tunes short, Transylvania 6-5000
  Transylvania 6-5000 (1963 film)
  
  For the 1985 film of the same name, see Transylvania 6-5000 .Transylvania 6-5000 is a short Merrie Melodies animated film directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny....
  
• The Fiery Phoenix, flaming familiar of G-Force
  G-force
  
  The g-force of an object is its acceleration relative to free-fall. The unit of measure used is informally but commonly known as the "gee" , symbolized as g . An acceleration of 1 g is generally considered as equal to standard gravity , which is defined as precisely metre per second square...
   in the Battle of the Planets
  Battle of the Planets
  
  Battle of the Planets is the United States dub of the 1972 in television television anime known as Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment....
   anime.
• Flit, a hummingbird
  Hummingbird
  
  Hummingbirds are birds in the family Trochilidae, and are endemic to the Americas. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 15?200 times per second ....
   in Disney's animated version of Pocahontas
  Pocahontas (1995 film)
  
  Pocahontas is the thirty-third animated feature in the List of Disney animated features. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation in April 15, 1994 and was originally released to selected theaters on June 16, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures....
  
• Friend Owl, in Disney's Bambi
  Bambi
  
  Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13 1942. The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten....
  
• Frobisher
  Frobisher
  
  Frobisher may refer to:In places:*Frobisher, Saskatchewan* Frobisher Bay, a bay in Baffin Island, named after Martin Frobisher* Frobisher Bay, the former name of a town in Baffin Island, Canada, now known as Iqaluit...
   (aka Avan Tarklu), an alien shapeshifter from the Dr. Who comic strip who preferred the form of a penguin
  Penguin
  
  Penguins are a group of Aquatic animal, flightless bird birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershading dark and white plumage, and their wings have become Flipper ....
  
• Foghorn Leghorn, a rooster
  Rooster
  
  A rooster, also called a cock or chanticleer is a male chicken , the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year's age are called cockerels....
   in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• Gogo Dodo
  Gogo Dodo
  
  Gogo Wackston the Dodo is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures. He is one of the main characters on the show....
   in Tiny Toon Adventures
  Tiny Toon Adventures
  
  Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros....
  
• The Goodfeathers
  Goodfeathers
  
  The Goodfeathers are characters in the cartoon TV series Animaniacs that were obvious pigeon parodies of Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci's roles in Goodfellas....
   (pigeons) in Animaniacs
  Animaniacs
  
  Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American list of animated television series, distributed by Warner Bros....
  
• Graculus in Noggin the Nog
  Noggin the Nog
  
  Noggin the Nog was a popular British children's television series shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1965. Thirty-six programmes were made, originally in black and white and running for ten minutes, by a company called Smallfilms, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin....
  
• The Great Bird Conspiracy in Kevin and Kell
  Kevin and Kell
  
  Kevin and Kell is a furry fandom comedy webcomic strip by syndicated cartoonist Bill Holbrook. The strip began on September 3, 1995. It is one of the oldest continuously running webcomics....
  
• H. Ross Parrot on Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• Giant hawk
  Hawk
  
  The term hawk can be used in several ways:* In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genus Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis....
  s flown by the Glider Elves
  Elf
  
  An elf is a creature of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertility deity, who are often pictured as youthful-seeming men and women of great beauty living in forests and underground places and caves, or in wells and springs....
   in Elfquest
  Elfquest
  
  Elfquest is a cult following comic book property created by Wendy Pini and Richard Pini in 1978. The basic premise is a fantasy story about a community of Elves and other fictional species who struggle to survive and coexist on a primitive Earth-like World of Two Moons....
   comics
• Heckle and Jeckle
  Heckle and Jeckle
  
  Heckle and Jeckle was a theatrical cartoon series created by Paul Terry , and released by his own studio, Terrytoons. The characters were a pair of identical magpies who calmly outwitted their foes in the manner of Bugs Bunny, while maintaining a mischievous streak reminiscent of Woody Woodpecker....
   are magpies that appear in Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
  cartoons.
• Henery Hawk
  Henery Hawk
  
  Henery Hawk is a cartoon character from the American Looney Tunes series, who appeared in twelve cartoons. His first appearance was The Squawkin' Hawk, directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger....
  , a chickenhawk
  Chickenhawk (bird)
  
  In the US, a Chickenhawk or Chicken Hawk is an unofficial designation for three species of North America hawks: the Cooper's Hawk, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and the Red-tailed Hawk....
   in the Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
  and Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
  cartoons
• Hooty, the pet owl of superhero Dr. Mid-nite, a DC Comics
  DC Comics
  
  DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. A subsidiary of Warner Bros....
   character
• Howard the Duck
  Howard the Duck
  
  Howard the Duck is a comic book fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny animal" trapped on human-domi...
   in the comic book of the same name
• Howland Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  , and Sarcophagus MacAbre, a vulture
  Vulture
  
  Vultures are scavenger birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Vultures are found on every continent except Antarctica and Oceania....
   in Walt Kelly
  Walt Kelly
  
  Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr , known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia ....
  's Pogo
  Pogo
  
  File:WaltKelly Pogo 1964-03-08 96.jpgPogo was the title and central character of a long-running daily comic strip created by Walt Kelly. Set in the Georgia section of the Okefenokee Swamp, the strip often engaged in social and political satire through the adventures of its funny animal characters....
  
• Information Hen, reference librarian, Between the Lions
  Between the Lions
  
  Between the Lions is a PBS Kids' puppet show designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH-TV in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting....
  
• Jose Carioca
  José Carioca
  
  Jos? Carioca is a The Walt Disney Company cartoon character drawn as an anthropomorphism parrot from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . Jos? was created in 1942 for the movie Saludos Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck....
  , a parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
   in various Walt Disney cartoons
• Jose, Michael, Pierre, and Fritz, parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  s in Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
  Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
  
  Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room is an attraction in Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California....
   attraction at Disney theme parks
• Kehaar the seagull in Watership Down
  Watership Down
  
  Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by United Kingdom author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are Anthropomorphism, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology....
  
• Kotreeka birds in Gene Catlow
• Lorelei, chicken character performed by Jim Boyd, from the early seasons of The Electric Company
  The Electric Company
  
  *For other uses, see Electric company.*For the 2009 revival see The Electric Company .'The Electric Company' was an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States....
  
• Lupe Toucan, Hazel Peacock, Laura Owl, Vanna Flamingo, Cory Vulture, Nate Emperor Penguin, Nathan Rockhopper Penguin, Nathaniel Macaroni Penguin, Miss Loon, Kira Swan are others in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
  My Gym Partner's a Monkey
  
  My Gym Partner's a Monkey is an American animated television series created by Timothy and Julie McNally Cahill and produced by Cartoon Network Studios....
  
• Marahute, the grand golden eagle in The Rescuers Down Under
  The Rescuers Down Under
  
  The Rescuers Down Under is the twenty-ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990....
  
• Matthew
  Matthew (DC Comics)
  
  Matthew Joseph Cable is a character in DC Comics series Swamp Thing, who died and was later resurrected as Dream 's raven in Neil Gaiman's rendition of The Sandman ....
  , Dream
  Dream (comics)
  
  Dream is the fictional character protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman , written by Neil Gaiman.One of the seven Endless , inconceivably powerful beings older and greater than gods, Dream is both lord and personification of all dreams and stories, all that is not in reality ....
  's raven in the DC Comics Sandman
  Sandman (Vertigo)
  
  The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published in the United States by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo Comics. It chronicles the adventures of Dream of The Endless, who rules over the world of dreams, in 75 issues from 1989 in comics until 1996 in comics....
   series
• Opus
  Opus the Penguin
  
  Opus the Penguin is a character in the comic strips and children's books of Berkeley Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s strip Bloom County....
  , a penguin
  Penguin
  
  Penguins are a group of Aquatic animal, flightless bird birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershading dark and white plumage, and their wings have become Flipper ....
   in Berkeley Breathed
  Berkeley Breathed
  
  Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, Film director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters and humorous analogies....
  's Bloom County
  Bloom County
  
  Bloom County was an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the lens of a fanciful small town in Middle America , where children have adult personalities and animals can talk....
  
• Ollie, an owl Toonimals!
  Toonimals!
  
  Toonimals! was a 2000 Animation television series produced by BRB International which taught about a different animal per episode. Occasionally, the episode became too wacky, even for the characters, and animals dressed as cameramen or other members of the technical crew would be called upon to restore order, sometimes without success....
  
• Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
  s in Futurama
  Futurama
  
  Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
  , considered vermin in the 31st Century
• Owl
  Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
  
  Owl is a fictional character in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and in Disney's Winnie the Pooh cartoons. Owl's character is obviously based on the stereotype of the "wise old owl", although in the books, the quality of Owl's "wisdom" is sometimes questionable....
   in Disney's animated versions of the Winnie the Pooh
  Winnie the Pooh
  
  Winnie the Pooh is a Walt Disney Company Media franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the List of Disney characters....
   stories
• Owl and Goose in Franklin
  Franklin (TV series)
  
  Franklin is a Canada children's television program, based on a series of books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois . The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle....
  
• Panchito, a rooster
  Rooster
  
  A rooster, also called a cock or chanticleer is a male chicken , the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year's age are called cockerels....
   in The Three Caballeros
  The Three Caballeros
  
  The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, that plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and traditional animation....
  
• Pen²
  List of characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion
  
  This is a list of characters in the Japanese culture anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and the movies Evangelion: Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion....
  , a penguin from Neon Genesis Evangelion
  Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise
  
  The Media franchise is a multi-billion dollar umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. The central works of the franchise feature an Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction mecha action story which centers around the efforts by the paramilitary organization Neon Genesis Evangelion glossary#Nerv to...
  
• The penguin
  Penguin
  
  Penguins are a group of Aquatic animal, flightless bird birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershading dark and white plumage, and their wings have become Flipper ....
   waiters in Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins (film)
  
  Mary Poppins is a 1964 in film musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and produced by Walt Disney, based on the Mary Poppins children's literature by P....
  
• Penguins in Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
  Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
  of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
  Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
  
• Pigeon, the eponymous avian and central stooge in Sidewards'
• The pigeons from Pigeon Street
  Pigeon Street
  
  Pigeon Street was an animation children's television series originally shown on the BBC in 1981. There were two series with eight and five episodes respectively, each programme lasting fifteen minutes....
  
• Pino
  PINO
  
  The Open PINO Platform is an open humanoid robot platform, with its mechanical and software design covered by the GNU Free Documentation License and GNU General Public License respectively....
  , the blue nephew of Big Bird
  Big Bird
  
  Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame Street, which airs on Public Broadcasting Service. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends....
  , appears in Sesamstraat
  Sesamstraat
  
  Sesamstraat is a children's television show in the Netherlands and Flanders, spun-off American program Sesame Street....
  , the Dutch spin-off of Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• Poelifinario, a fictitious bird species with a distinctive call, thought up and made famous by Dutch comedian Toon Hermans
  Toon Hermans
  
  Antoine G. T. "Toon" Hermans was a noted The Netherlands comedian, singer and writer.He was born in Sittard, now Sittard-Geleen.Toon Hermans began performing in the 1930's, achieving local, regional and, eventually, national fame in the Netherlands as a comedian during the post-war decades....
  
• Pokey the Penguin
  Pokey the Penguin
  
  Pokey the Penguin is a surrealism webcomic comic strip created in 1998. It chronicles the adventures of a penguin named Pokey and a large cast of other characters....
  , a penguin living in the Arctic Circle
  Arctic Circle
  
  The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circle of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is the parallel of latitude that runs 66degree 33'39? north of the Equator....
  , in the webcomic
  Webcomic
  
  Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website, often exclusively, providing easy access to an audience, though some are published in books and newspapers but maintain a web archive....
   of the same name
• Professor Yaffle, a Green Woodpecker
  Green Woodpecker
  
  The Green Woodpecker is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. There are four subspecies and it occurs in most parts of Europe and in western Asia....
   in Bagpuss
  Bagpuss
  
  Bagpuss is a popular 1974 UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The title character is "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams"....
   (UK)
• Reptile Parrot of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
  Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
  
• The Road Runner (a roadrunner
  Geococcyx
  
  The roadrunners are two species of bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, native to North America and Central America....
  ) in the Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
   and Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
   cartoons
• Screaming Bird of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
  Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
  
• Sam the Eagle
  Sam the Eagle
  
  Sam the Eagle is a character from the syndicated television show The Muppet Show, performed by Frank Oz. The name "Sam" is probably derived from Uncle Sam....
  , patriotic eagle on The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show
  
  The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of The Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street....
  
• Scuttle, a seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid
  The Little Mermaid
  
  "The Little Mermaid" is a fairy tale by the Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a merperson to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince....
  
• Sheldon, an unhatched chick egg, in Garfield and Friends
  Garfield and Friends
  
  Garfield and Friends is an United States animated television series based on comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis . This show was produced by Film Roman, and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from 1988 to 1994 and Nickelodeon from 1997 to 2000....
  
• Shoe
  Shoe (comic strip)
  
  Shoe is a comic strip that was written and drawn by its creator Jeff MacNelly from 1977 until his death in 2000. It has since been continued by Chris Cassatt, Gary Brookins, and Susie MacNelly....
  , a grumpy, cigar-smoking newspaper publisher in his own comic strip
  Comic strip
  
  A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
  
• Shirley McLoon in Tiny Toon Adventures
  Tiny Toon Adventures
  
  Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros....
  
• Simon, the messenger bird from the Korean comic Twinkle
• Swan
  Swan
  
  Swans are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes goose and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini....
  , Penguin
  Penguin
  
  Penguins are a group of Aquatic animal, flightless bird birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershading dark and white plumage, and their wings have become Flipper ....
  , Eaglet
  Eaglet
  
  The term eaglet can refer to:* the immature young of an eagle, which in turn encompasses several species of bird of prey;* The Eaglet, a character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll....
  , Baby birds
  Blue Jay
  
  The Blue Jay is a passerine bird, and a member of the family Corvidae native to North America. It belongs to the "blue" or American jays, which are, among the Corvidae, not closely related to other jays....
  , Crane
  Red-crowned Crane
  
  The Red-crowned Crane , also called the Japanese Crane or Manchurian Crane, is a large Crane and is the second rarest crane in the world....
  ,flamingo
  Flamingo
  
  Flamingos or flamingoes are wikt:gregarious wading birds in the genus Phoenicopterus and family Phoenicopteridae. They are found in both the Western Hemisphere and in the Eastern Hemisphere, but are more numerous in the latter....
  s, Pigeon, and Owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   babies safety in Wonderpets
• Superchicken
• Tokimaru a japanese Crested Ibis in Time Bokan 2000 Kaito Kiramekiman
• Thundra, a phoenix
  Phoenix (mythology)
  
  The phoenix is a Mythologyical sacred fire bird which originated in the Sub-continent of India in ancient mythologies mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian religion and later the Sanchuniathon and the Greek Mythology....
   in Aladdin
  Aladdin (TV series)
  
  Aladdin is an animated television series made by Walt Disney Television which aired from 1994 to 1996, based on the original Aladdin . Coming on the heels of the direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar, the series picked up where that installment left off, with Aladdin still living on the streets of Agrabah, engaged to beautiful an...
  )
• Turtle Ducks of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
  Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
  
• Tweety
  Tweety
  
  Tweety is a fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. Tweety's popularity, like that of Tasmanian Devil , actually grew in the years following the dissolution of the Looney Tunes cartoons....
  , a canary
  Canary
  
  The Canary , also called the Island Canary, Atlantic Canary or Common Canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the finch family, Fringillidae....
   in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• The vulture
  Vulture
  
  Vultures are scavenger birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Vultures are found on every continent except Antarctica and Oceania....
  s in Disney's animated version of The Jungle Book
  The Jungle Book (1967 film)
  
  The Jungle Book is a 1967 in film Animation feature film, released on October 18, 1967. The 19th animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production....
  
• Watson, duck sidekick to Dr. Nitwhite, Between the Lions
  Between the Lions
  
  Between the Lions is a PBS Kids' puppet show designed to promote reading. The show is a co-production between WGBH-TV in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting....
  
• The Why Bird, in BBC educational programme Playdays
  Playdays
  
  Playdays is a children's television programme from the United Kingdom. The series ran from 17 October 1988 to 28 March 1997 on Children's BBC , and was aired in reruns until 2003....
  
• Woodstock
  Woodstock (Peanuts)
  
  Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Snoopy began befriending birds in the early 1960s, when they started using his doghouse for various purposes: a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, or a place to play cards....
   in the Charles Schulz's Peanuts
  Peanuts
  
  Peanuts is a print syndication daily strip and Sunday strip comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 , continuing in reruns afterward....
   comic strip
  Comic strip
  
  A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
  
• Woody Woodpecker
  Woody Woodpecker
  
  Woody Woodpecker is an animation fictional character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios....
  , a woodpecker
  Woodpecker
  
  Woodpeckers are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes. They are one subfamily in the family Picidae, which also includes the piculets and wrynecks....
   in the Walter Lantz
  Walter Lantz
  
  Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
   cartoons
• X, an owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
  Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
  
  Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Mister Rogers is an United States children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers....
  , who lives in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe
• Yankee Doodle Pigeon in Hanna-Barbera's Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
• Ying Ying, Hannibal Roy Bean's henchbird in Xiaolin Showdown
  Xiaolin Showdown
  
  Xiaolin Showdown was an United States animated television series that aired on Kids WB and was created by Christy Hui. Set in a world where martial arts battles and Eastern magic are common place, the series follows four young warriors in training that battle the forces of evil....
  
• Yoyo, an owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in The Books of Magic
  The Books of Magic
  
  The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language comic book limited series written by Neil Gaiman, and later an ongoing series, published by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo ....
   comic book by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  
  Neil Richard Gaiman is an England author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust , American Gods and Coraline....
   and others

Birds in film

• Babs and Ginger (hens
  Chicken
  
  The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
  ) and Fowler and Rocky (rooster
  Rooster
  
  A rooster, also called a cock or chanticleer is a male chicken , the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year's age are called cockerels....
  s) in Chicken Run
  Chicken Run
  
  Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animation British film made by the Aardman Animations studios ....
  
• The Crow
  The Crow (film)
  
  The Crow is a 1994 in film Cinema of the United States action film-thriller film film adaptation of the 1989 The Crow by James O'Barr. The film was adapted by David J....
   (based on the comic of the same name) is about a superhero associated with a crow
  Crow
  
  The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
  
• Falcon (a falcon
  Falcon
  
  A falcon is any species of bird of prey in the genus Falco. The word comes from their Latin name falco, related to Latin falx because of the shape of these birds' wings....
  ) and Margalo (a canary
  Canary
  
  The Canary , also called the Island Canary, Atlantic Canary or Common Canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the finch family, Fringillidae....
  ) in Stuart Little 2
  Stuart Little 2
  
  Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 in film film, Film director by Rob Minkoff. It is a sequel to the 1999 film Stuart Little , and includes characters from the Stuart Little by E....
  
• Fred, a white owl
  Owl
  
  The Strigiformes are an order of bird of prey, comprising 200 species. Most are solitary, and Nocturnal animal, with some exceptions . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish....
   in the opening sequence and bike scene of the 1982 film The Snowman
  The Snowman
  
  The Snowman is a children's book by England author Raymond Briggs, published in 1978. In 1982, this book was turned into a 26-minute animated movie by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling Channel 4....
  
• Hedwig, Pigwidgeon ( owls
  OWLS
  
  OWLS is a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots to assess an unprepared surface for a precautionary landing.Like all mnemonics this check has become part of aviation culture and folklore....
   ) from Harry Potter
• Howard - "Howard The Duck
  Howard the Duck
  
  Howard the Duck is a comic book fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny animal" trapped on human-domi...
  " aka "Howard: A New Breed of Hero" (1986)
• Iago, a parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
   in Disney's animated version of Aladdin
• The killer birds in the Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
   film The Birds
  The Birds (film)
  
  The Birds is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. The film's innovative special effects, soundtrack, and apocalyptic fiction theme influenced later "revenge of nature" disaster films....
   (and the Daphne du Maurier
  Daphne du Maurier
  
  Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning Order of the British Empire was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca , which won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1941, Jamaica Inn , and her short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now....
   story on which the film is based)
• Lt. Puffin (a puffin
  Puffin
  
  Puffins are any of four auk species in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak in the breeding season. These are pelagic zone seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water....
  ) The Swan Princess
  The Swan Princess
  
  The Swan Princess is a Golden Globe nominated 1994 in film animated film based on the ballet "Swan Lake". Starring the voices of Jack Palance, Howard McGillin, Michelle Nicastro, Steven Wright and John Cleese, the film is directed by ex-Disney animation director Richard Rich , with a music score by Lex de Azevedo....
  
• Louie, the main character of EB White's The Trumpet of the Swan
  The Trumpet of the Swan
  
  The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a Trumpeter Swan born without a voice and trying to overcome it by learning to play a trumpet, always trying to impress a beautiful swan named Serena....
  
• Mlle. Upanova the Ostrich and other dancing Ostriches from the Dance of the Hours
  Dance of the Hours
  
  Dance of the Hours is a ballet from the opera La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli .The ballet was used in the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia , albeit with ballet-dancing hippopotamus , ostriches, alligators and elephants....
   segment of Fantasia
  Fantasia (film)
  
  Fantasia is a 1940 in film List of animated feature-length films produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features#official canon....
  
• Mordechai: Pet falcon of Richie Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  
  The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 in film Comedy-drama dark comedy directed by Wes Anderson about three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentricity father leaves them in their adolescent years....
  
• Nigel, a (Brown Pelican
  Brown Pelican
  
  The Brown Pelican is the smallest of the eight species of pelican, although it is a large bird in nearly every other regard. It is 106-137 cm in length, weighs from 2.75 to 5.5 kg and has a wingspan from 1.83 to 2.5 m ....
  ) (Herring Gull
  Herring Gull
  
  The Herring Gull, Larus argentatus, is a large gull , and is the most abundant and best known of all gulls along the shores of Asia, western Europe, and North America....
  ), in Finding Nemo
  Finding Nemo
  
  Finding Nemo is a 2002 in film CGI animation film. It was written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures....
  
• Ofcr. Whittaker, police chicken partner of Ofcr. Fowl (Jaleel White
  Jaleel White
  
  Jaleel Ahmad White is an United States actor. He is best known for his role as Steve Urkel/Stefan Urquelle on the television program Family Matters from 1989 to 1998, and Sonic the Hedgehog on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog , Sonic Underground, and Sonic the Hedgehog media....
  ) in "Whittaker and Fowl", movie Marty Wolf filmed early in Big Fat Liar
  Big Fat Liar
  
  Big Fat Liar is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, and Donald Faison....
  
• Oliver & Olivia (and friends), two birds featured in War of the Birds
  War of the Birds
  
  War of the Birds is a Danish animated movie directed by Jannik Hastrup in 1991, about two orphan birds, Oliver and Olivia, who fight against an evil vulture with the help of two mice....
  ; a 1991 Danish movie.
• Gusuke, Milk, Icarus, Babilon, Seagrid, from Doraemon: Nobita's Winged Heroes
  List of Doraemon media
  
  This is a list of all Doraemon media releases....
  
• Paulie
  Paulie
  
  Paulie is a 1998 film starring Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Hallie Kate Eisenberg and Jay Mohr. It is about the adventures of a smart-talking bird who frequently finds himself in trouble....
   (a parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  ) in the film of the same name
• The Vultures (a gastornis
  Gastornis
  
  Gastornis , formely Diatryma, is an extinct genus of large flightless bird that lived during the late Paleocene and Eocene periods of the Cenozoic....
  ) (phorushrhacos) Ice Age 2: Meltdown
• Waddlesworth (a parrot
  Parrot
  
  File:Ara ararauna -eating -Wilhelma Zoo-8-2rc.jpgParrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genus that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions....
  ) in 102 Dalmatians
  102 Dalmatians
  
  102 Dalmatians is a 2000 in film live-action film, produced by The Walt Disney Company and starring Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. It is the sequel to 101 Dalmatians , a live-action remake of the 1961 List of Disney theatrical animated features One Hundred and One Dalmatians....
  
• Zazu, A Hornbill
  Hornbill
  
  Hornbills are a family of bird found in tropical and sub-tropical Africa and Asia. They are characterized by a long, down-curved bill which is frequently brightly-coloured and sometimes has a casque on the upper mandible....
   from The Lion King
  The Lion King
  
  The Lion King is a American Animation film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released in theaters on June 15, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures....
  
• Chip, Bald Eagle
  Bald Eagle
  
  The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America that is most recognizable as the List of national birds and national symbol of the United States....
   in The Little Engine That Could
  The Little Engine That Could (film)
  
  The Little Engine that Could is a 1991 in film film directed by Dave Edwards and co-produced by Edwards and Mike Young , animated at Kalato in Wales and co-financed by Universal Studios through their MCA Home Video arm and S4C, Wales' dedicated welsh-language channel....
  

Birds in music

• Blackbird
  Blackbird
  
  The Common Blackbird , also called Eurasian Blackbird, or simply Blackbird is a species of true thrush which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced species to Australia and New Zealand....
   in the Beatles' Blackbird
  Blackbird (song)
  
  "Blackbird" is a Beatles song from double-disc album The Beatles . Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney, but credited as usual to Lennon/McCartney....
  
• The Birds
  The Birds (band)
  
  The Birds were a popular rhythm and blues band in England during the mid-1960s, although they recorded fewer than a dozen songs and released only four singles during the two years they were active....
   – British band
• The Black Crowes
  The Black Crowes
  
  The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
   – American band
• The Byrds
  The Byrds
  
  The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
   – American band
• The crow
  Crow
  
  The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
   in As the Crow Flies, Blues Song by Tony Joe White
• The doves
  Doves
  
  Doves is an England indie rock musical band, formed in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, although most of their early gigs were in the nearby city of Manchester....
   in Prince's When Doves Cry
  When Doves Cry
  
  "When Doves Cry" is a song by the United States musician Prince , and the lead single from his 1984 album Purple Rain . It was a worldwide hit, and his first American number one single, topping charts for five weeks....
  
• Free Bird
  Free Bird
  
  "Free Bird" is a song by the United States rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was first featured on the band's debut album in 1973, and has been included on subsequent albums released by the band....
   by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  
• The old grey goose
  Goose
  
  Goose is the English-language name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than geese, and ducks, which are smaller....
   who drowned in the millpond in Go Tell Aunt Rhody
• The Kookaburra
  Kookaburra
  
  Kookaburras are large to very large terrestrial animal kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea, the name a loanword from Wiradjuri language guuguubarra, which is onomatopoeia of its call....
   of the Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  n song of the same name
• The Lark Ascending
  The Lark Ascending
  
  The Lark Ascending is a popular piece for violin and orchestra, written in 1914 by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland composer Ralph Vaughan Williams....
  ; composition by Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  
  Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
  
• Mockingbird by Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
   and James Taylor
  James Taylor
  
  James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  
• The Mutton Birds
  The Mutton Birds
  
  The Mutton Birds was a band from New Zealand formed in 1991 by Don McGlashan, Ross Burge, and David Long....
   – band
• The Mynah Birds
  The Mynah Birds
  
  The Mynah Birds were a R&B band based in Toronto, Ontario in the 1960s. Although the band never released an album, it is famous as one of the earliest efforts of a number of musicians who went on to be hugely successful....
   – band
• The Nightingale
  The Nightingale
  
  "The Nightingale" is a fairy tale by Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled music box to the song of a nightingale....
  ; composition by Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
  
• Oiseax exotiques and Catalogue d'oiseaux; organ compositions by Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organ , and ornithology. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 11 and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupr? among his teachers....
  .
• The turkey
  Turkey
  
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
   in Turkey in the Straw
  Turkey in the Straw
  
  "Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known United States folk song dating from the early 19th century. The song's tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers, notably George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell and George Nichols....
  
• And Your Bird Can Sing
  And Your Bird Can Sing
  
  "And Your Bird Can Sing" is a song by the The Beatles, released on their 1966 album Revolver in the UK and on Yesterday...and Today in the U.S....
   by The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  
• Free As a Bird
  Free as a Bird
  
  "Free as a Bird" is a song performed by The Beatles. The single was released on 4 December 1995, as part of the promotion for the release of The Beatles Anthology video documentary and the band's Anthology 1 compilation album....
   also by the Beatles, from Anthology 1
  Anthology 1
  
  Anthology 1 is a compilation album by The Beatles and the first of a three-volume collection. It was released in November 1995 and includes rarities and alternative tracks from the period 1958-1964, including their days as "The Quarrymen", through the Decca auditions to the album Beatles for Sale....
  
• "City Bird" from the album Satanic Panic in the Attic
  Satanic Panic in the Attic
  
  Satanic Panic in the Attic is the sixth album released by the band of Montreal. The album, like later albums The Sunlandic Twins and Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, was made almost entirely by Kevin Barnes....
   by Of Montreal
  Of Montreal
  
  of Montreal is an United States indie pop band formed in Athens, Georgia. Fronted by Kevin Barnes, it was among the second wave of groups to emerge from The Elephant 6 Recording Company....
  .
• Bird song in transcribed form is found in Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
  The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
  
  The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music....
  , Richard Wagner's Siegfried
  Siegfried (opera)
  
  Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring....
  , Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
  Der Rosenkavalier
  
  Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai and Moli?re?s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac....
  , Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Carnaval des Animaux
  The Carnival of the Animals
  
  Le Carnaval des Animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movement by the France Romantic music composer Camille Saint-Sa?ns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes....
   and Olivier Messiaen's Chronochromie and Coleurs de la cité céleste.
• "Bird of Paradise" by Snowy White
  Snowy White
  
  Snowy White is an English people guitarist, primarily known for having played with Thin Lizzy and with Pink Floyd and, more recently, for Roger Waters' band....
  
• "Bird on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen
• "Cry Of The Black Birds" by Amon Amarth
  Amon Amarth (band)
  
  Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, Sweden, founded in 1988 , and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J....
  
• "As Long As The Raven Flies" by Amon Amarth
  Amon Amarth (band)
  
  Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, Sweden, founded in 1988 , and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J....
  
• "Cuckoo For Caca" by Faith No More
  Faith No More
  
  Faith No More is an American alternative metal band who formed in San Francisco, California, and were active between 1984 and 1998. Faith No More combined elements of heavy metal music, funk music, progressive rock, hip hop music, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and jazz, among many others, and have been hailed as an influential rock band....
  
• "Raven Claws" by Moonspell
  Moonspell
  
  Moonspell is a Portugal black metal/gothic metal band with death/doom metal elements, formed in 1989 as Morbid God. After renaming themselves Moonspell in 1992, they released their first Extended play Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart....
  
• "The Raven And The Rose" by My Dying Bride
  My Dying Bride
  
  My Dying Bride is a United Kingdom Doom metal band formed in 1990. My Dying Bride is one of the three bands responsible for the formation of death/doom metal, along with Anathema and Paradise Lost ....
  
• "Thy Raven Wings" by My Dying Bride
  My Dying Bride
  
  My Dying Bride is a United Kingdom Doom metal band formed in 1990. My Dying Bride is one of the three bands responsible for the formation of death/doom metal, along with Anathema and Paradise Lost ....
  
• "Swim Seagull In The Sky" by Novembre
  Novembre
  
  Novembre is a Progressive Death metal/Gothic metal band from Rome, Italy....
  
• "The Real Macaw"

Birds in sports

• The Adelaide Blue Eagles
  Adelaide Blue Eagles
  
  Adelaide Blue Eagles is a football club based at the Marden Sports Complex, South Australia. Blue Eagles is a participant in the recently formed South Australian Super League....
  
• The Adelaide Hills Hawks
  Adelaide Hills Hawks
  
  The Adelaide Hills Hawks are a football club from the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Adelaide Hills play in the FFSA South Australian Premier League and are based at The Hawks Nest, Woodside in the Adelaide Hills....
  
• The Altona East Phoenix
  Altona East Phoenix
  
  Altona East Phoenix are an Australian football club based in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria , Australia, currently in the Victorian State League Division 2 N/W....
  
• The Anaheim
  Anaheim, California
  
  Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of January 1, 2008, the city population was about 346,823, making it the 10th most-populated city in California and ranked 54th in the United States....
   Ducks
  Anaheim Ducks
  
  The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
• The Arizona
  Arizona
  
  The State of Arizona is a U.S. state located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona....
   Cardinals
  Arizona Cardinals
  
  The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American Football team based in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals are members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  
• The Atlanta
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
   Hawks
  Atlanta Hawks
  
  The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  
• The Atlanta
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
   Thrashers
  Atlanta Thrashers
  
  The Atlanta Thrashers are a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
• The Baltimore
  Baltimore, Maryland
  
  Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
   Orioles
  Baltimore Orioles
  
  The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball based in Baltimore. They are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
  
• The Baltimore
  Baltimore, Maryland
  
  Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
   Ravens
  Baltimore Ravens
  
  The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  
• The Bellevue
  Bellevue, Washington
  
  Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb....
   Blackhawks
  Bellevue Blackhawks
  
  The Bellevue Blackhawks are a defunct team in the American Basketball Association owned by Michael Tuckman and based in Bellevue, WA. In their maiden season , the Blackhawks finished in 5th place in the Red Division....
  
• The Boston
  Boston, Massachusetts
  
  Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
   Doves
  Atlanta Braves
  
  The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
   (now Atlanta Braves)
• The Chicago Owls
  Continental Football League
  
  The Continental Football League was an American football league played in North America from 1965 through 1969. It was established as a minor league....
   (defunct)
• The Hawthorn Hawks
  Hawthorn Football Club
  
  Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League . The club is the youngest of the Victorian based teams as they were founded in 1902 yet is the most successful club of the past 50 years having won 10 Premierships, including the 2008 Premiership....
  
• The Kansas
  Kansas
  
  The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....
   Jayhawks
  Kansas Jayhawks
  
  The sports teams at the University of Kansas are known as the Jayhawks. They participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and in the Big 12 Conference....
  
• The Manly Sea Eagles
• The Mt Gravatt Hawks
  Mt Gravatt Hawks
  
  Mt Gravatt Hawks are an Australian football club from Mt Gravatt, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The club was formed in 1960, and currently play in the Brisbane Premier League....
  
• The New Town Eagles
  New Town Eagles
  
  Newtown Eagles Football Club is a football club which represents New Town, Tasmania in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League .The club also fields teams in all junior divisions, as well as women's teams....
  
• The Oklahoma
  Oklahoma
  
  Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
   Thunderbirds
  Continental Football League
  
  The Continental Football League was an American football league played in North America from 1965 through 1969. It was established as a minor league....
   (defunct)
• The Paramatta Eagles
• The Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
   Condors
  Pittsburgh Condors
  
  The Pittsburgh Condors were a professional basketball team in the original American Basketball Association, playing under that name from 1970 through 1972....
   (defunct)
• The Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
   Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
• The St Louis
  St. Louis, Missouri
  
  St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
   Cardinals
  St. Louis Cardinals
  
  The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the National League Central in the National League of Major League Baseball....
  
• The St Louis
  St. Louis, Missouri
  
  St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
   Eagles
  St. Louis Eagles
  
  The St. Louis Eagles were a professional ice hockey team, a member of the National Hockey League , that played during the 1934-35 NHL season in St....
    (defunct)
• The Seattle
  Seattle, Washington
  
  Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
   Seahawks
  Seattle Seahawks
  
  The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  
• The Seattle
  Seattle, Washington
  
  Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
   Thunderbirds
  Seattle Thunderbirds
  
  The Seattle Thunderbirds are a junior ice hockey team in Seattle, Washington, Washington that belongs to the Western Hockey League. They play in ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington....
  
• The Sydney Roosters
  Sydney Roosters
  
  The Sydney Roosters is a professional rugby league football team based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the most successful clubs in Rugby league in Australia, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League premiership and National Rugby League titles, and several othe...
  
• The Sydney Swans
  Sydney Swans
  
  The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League club based in Sydney, New South Wales.The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans....
  
• The Temple
  Temple University
  
  Temple University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr....
   Owls
  Temple Owls
  
  Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has a long-running and prestigious athletic program. The school's sports teams are called the Owls, originating from the university's early days as a night school....
  
• The Toronto Blue Jays
  Toronto Blue Jays
  
  The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball 's American League....
  
• The UBC Thunderbirds
  UBC Thunderbirds
  
  The UBC Thunderbirds are the athletic teams that represent the University of British Columbia in the University Endowment Lands just outside the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
  
• The Western Suburbs Magpies
  Western Suburbs Magpies
  
  The Western Suburbs Magpies are a rugby league football club in Sydney, Australia. Formed in 1908, the Wests were one of the nine foundation clubs of the first New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia....
  
• The Toukley Hawks

Birds in video games

• The Cucco from the Legend of Zelda series
• The Chozo in the Metroid series
• Beat the Bird in Mega Man
  Mega Man (series)
  
  Mega Man, known as in Japan, is a series of video games from Capcom, usually starring the character Mega Man . There are well over 50 Capcom releases bearing the Mega Man name, easily making it Capcom's most prolific franchise and one of the best-known franchises of all time....
  
• Chill Penguin and Storm Eagle in Mega Man X
  Mega Man X (video game)
  
  , released in late 1993 to early 1994 by Capcom, is the first game in the Mega Man X series. The first subseries of the popular Mega Man series, it was made primarily as a stepping stone between the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System incarnations of the original series, as Mega Man games were releas...
  
• Crow in The Longest Journey
  The Longest Journey
  
  The Longest Journey is a Point-and-click game adventure game developed by Norway studio Funcom for the personal computer. First published by IQ Media Nordic in Norway in 1999, it was later localized for and released in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Canada, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Poland, C...
  
• Overdrive Ostrich in Mega Man X2
  Mega Man X2
  
  Mega Man X2 was released in 1995 by Capcom and is the second game in the Mega Man X sub-franchise. It used the same graphics engine from the first installment of the series, but Capcom included an in-cartridge enhancement known as the Cx4 chip to improve Transparency and allow for some 3-D computer graphics graphics in the game....
  
• Pentarou in Parodius series
  Parodius series
  
  The Parodius series is a series of horizontally-Shoot 'em up#Scrolling shooterss developed by Konami. The games are tongue-in-cheek parodies of Gradius, hence the name ....
  , Yume Penguin Monogatari
  Yume Penguin Monogatari
  
  Yume Penguin Monogatari is a hybrid platform game/shooter game video game developed by Konami in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is of particular note because of its highly peculiar plot and gameplay....
  , Antarctic Adventure
  Antarctic Adventure
  
  Antarctic Adventure, known in Japan as Kekkyoku Nankyoku Daiboken is a videogame developed by Konami in 1983 in video gaming for MSX, and later for video game consoles, such as Nintendo Entertainment System....
  
• King Dedede, Coo, Pitch, and Dyna Blade (Kirby) from the Kirby series
  Kirby (series)
  
  The series is a fantasy video game series developed by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo, and produced by Nintendo. The gameplay of a majority of the games in the series consists mainly of Action game, Platform game and Puzzle video game-solving elements....
  
• General Tsao, Captain LeFwee, Clockwerk, and Arpeggio in the Sly Cooper
  Sly Cooper
  
  Sly Cooper is the main protagonist of the Sly Cooper as the main character and hero of three platform games developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the Sony PlayStation 2....
   trilogy
• Maurie, Cass, and Lenny in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
  Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
  
  Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is the first title in a video game series for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube produced by Krome Studios in 2002....
  
• Stew, Chick, Penta, Farmer, Evil Twins, from Crash Bandicoot series
  Crash Bandicoot series
  
  Crash Bandicoot is a series of platform game video games currently video game developer by Radical Entertainment and video game publisher by Activision Blizzard....
  
• Indian Peafowl
  Indian Peafowl
  
  The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, also known as the Common Peafowl or the Blue Peafowl, is one of the species of bird in the genus Pavo of the Phasianidae family known as peafowl....
  , flamingo
  Flamingo
  
  Flamingos or flamingoes are wikt:gregarious wading birds in the genus Phoenicopterus and family Phoenicopteridae. They are found in both the Western Hemisphere and in the Eastern Hemisphere, but are more numerous in the latter....
   and ostrich
  Ostrich
  
  The ostrich Struthio camelus is a large flightless bird native to Africa . It is the only living species of its family , Struthionidae, and its genus, Struthio....
   from Zoo Tycoon 2
  Zoo Tycoon 2
  
  Zoo Tycoon 2 is a simulation computer game in which the player may create and operate a zoo, by managing its finances, employees and animal exhibits....
  
• Secretary Bird
  Secretary Bird
  
  The Secretary Bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, is a large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Sahara....
   from Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure
  Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure
  
  Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure is the second expansion pack for the video game Zoo Tycoon 2. African Adventure, as the name suggests, is Africa-themed....
  
• Albatoss in the Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2
  Super Mario Bros. 2
  
  Super Mario Bros. 2 is a platform game video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console....
  
• Raphael Raven in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
  Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
  
  Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, originally released as in Japan, is a Platform game video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console....
  
• Cyber Peacock and Storm Owl in Mega Man X4
  Mega Man X4
  
  Mega Man X4 is the fourth game in the Mega Man X series. This game was originally released on July 31, 1997 for the Sega Saturn in North America....
  
• Falco Lombardi in the Star Fox series
  Star Fox series
  
  The is a successful video game franchise owned by Nintendo. The original game was a forward-scrolling 3D Sci-Fi Shoot 'em up#Tube and rail shooters. Later sequels added more directional freedom as the series progressed....
  
• Sgt. James Byrd in the Spyro the Dragon
  Spyro the Dragon (series)
  
  File:SpyroTheDragonLogo.gifSpyro is a popular platform game and action-adventure game game series starring the video game character Spyro the Dragon , which was originally released for the Sony PlayStation....
   series, beginning with Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon
• Various Pokémon
  Pokémon
  
  is a media franchise owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri around 1995. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy line Console role-playing game video games, Pok?mon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own...
  , including Lugia, Chatot
  Chatot
  
  Chatot may refer to:*Chatot , a Native American tribe of the Southeastern US*Chatot , a List of Pok?mon #Chatot...
  , Staravia, Moltres, and Honchkrow, among others.
• Helmaroc King and Kargorocs in the The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  
  The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, known in Japan as , is an action-adventure game and the tenth installment in The Legend of Zelda . It was released for the Nintendo GameCube in Japan on December 13, 2002, in North America on March 24, 2003, in Europe on May 3, 2003, and in Australia on May 7, 2003....
  
• Chocobo
  Chocobo
  
  File:Chocobo.pngA is a fictional, large, and normally flightless galliformes/ratite bird capable of being ridden. This species is a staple of the Final Fantasy....
   in the Final Fantasy
  Final Fantasy
  
  is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. The series began in 1987 as an Final Fantasy console role-playing game video game developer by Square Co., spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise....
   series
• Kaepora Gaebora in the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  
  is an Action-adventure game video game developed by Nintendo's Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development division for the Nintendo 64 video game console....
  
• Ooccoo from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  
  is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, and published by Nintendo for the Wii and Nintendo GameCube video game consoles....
  
• Kazooie, the sidekick in the Banjo-Kazooie
  Banjo-Kazooie
  
  Banjo-Kazooie is a Platform game and Action-adventure game video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo as the inaugural game in the Banjo-Kazooie ....
   series
• List of Animal Crossing cha, the owner of the museum in the Animal Crossing series
• Celeste
  Animal Crossing: Wild World
  
  in Japan, is a life simulation game video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console, and the follow-up to Animal Crossing for the Nintendo GameCube....
  , in Animal Crossing: Wild World
  Animal Crossing: Wild World
  
  in Japan, is a life simulation game video game published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console, and the follow-up to Animal Crossing for the Nintendo GameCube....
  , the sister of Blathers
• The Babylon Rogues of Sonic Riders
  Sonic Riders
  
  is a racing video game spin-off produced by Sega and developed by Sonic Team in cooperation with NowPro, for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows....
  
• Tiki the Kiwi
  Kiwi
  
  A kiwi is any of the species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the genus Apteryx . At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites....
   from New Zealand Story
  New Zealand Story
  
  is a 1988 arcade game by Taito Corporation. The player controls a athletic shoe-wearing kiwi called Tiki, and the aim of the game is to rescue several of his kiwi chick friends who have been kiwi-napped by a leopard seal....
  
• The condor
  Condor
  
  Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere....
   of the Ice Climber
  Ice Climber
  
  is a vertical platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. The video game features Popo and Nana , collectively known as the Ice Climbers, venturing up 32 ice-covered mountains to recover stolen vegetables from a giant condor....
   series
• Klepto the condor from Super Mario 64

Birds in commerce

• Granny Goose
  Granny Goose
  
  Granny Goose is the name of an United States brand of potato chips and other snack foods.It's logo and mascot, also named Granny Goose, is an anthropomorphic cartoon goose....
  
• Toucan Sam
  Toucan Sam
  
  Toucan Sam is the avian mascot of Froot Loops cereal. The character is a blue cartoon toucan with a striped beak. Although his beak originally had two pink stripes, during the 1970s it became a tradition that each stripe on his beak represented one of the flavors of the pieces in the cereal: ....
  , a toucan, the cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops
  Froot Loops
  
  Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Germany and Latin America as well as South Africa....
   cereal (USA)
• Floyd D. Duck Bubble Yum
  Bubble Yum
  
  Bubble Yum is a brand of bubble gum marketed by The Hershey Company.Introduced in 1975 by Life Savers, the popular bubble gum was the first soft bubble gum ever created....
  
• Sonny the Cuckoo Bird
  Sonny the Cuckoo Bird
  
  Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is the cartoon mascot for Cocoa Puffs, a General Mills-produced cereal. He often appears in its television television commercials....
  , Cocoa Puffs
  Cocoa Puffs
  
  Cocoa Puffs is a brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal manufactured by General Mills. Introduced in 1958, the cereal consists of small spheres of corn, oats and rice that have been flavored with chocolate....
  
• The Vlasic Pickles Stork

Birds in toys

• Rocket, Stilt, Hooters, Baldy, Mac, Early, in Beanie Babies

See also

• Bird
  Bird
  
  Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
  
• List of fictional ducks
  List of fictional ducks
  
  Disney cartoon ducksDisney animators have created an entire universe of ducks; most are modeled after the Pekin duck....
  
• List of fictional penguins
  List of fictional penguins
  
  Penguins in animated fiction *Topper - a lost penguin on "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"*Bad Tsunko - a younger sister of Badtz Maru.*Bad Twins....
  

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