Birds in legends, mythology, and religion
Kwakiutl mythology
★ Kwakwakalanooksiwae
★ Hokhokw
Magyar mythology
★ Turul - 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
★ Raven - representative spirit of actual ravens, and often depicted as a trickster or culture hero figure, even as the creator of human beings.
★ Thunderbird - an enormous bird that causes thunder and stirs the wind from the beating of its wings.
Norse mythology
★ Habrok - the "best" hawk.
★ Hraesvelg - a giant, who in eagle from, creates the wind by beating his wings.
★ Hugin and Munin (''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.
Persian mythology
★ Chamrosh - 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 - a gigantic, benevolent, mythical flying creature, often part dog or human.
Russian mythology
★ Alkonost - a bird of paradise with the body of a bird and the face of a woman, a derivative of Alcyone.
★ 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 - 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 (Жар-Птица) - a magical glowing firebird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and bringer of doom to its captor.
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Birds in literature
★
Albatross in ''Mopsa the Fairy'', novel by
Jean Ingelow.
★
Albatross in
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, epic poem by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
★ Alien
Birds, Yittleby and Yattleby (flightless birds called krylobos) in ''Wizard's Eleven'' and the Jinian books by
Sheri S. Tepper.
★
Bellbirds in ''Bellbirds'', poem by
Henry Kendall.
★
Blackbirds, Jack and Jill on a hill, told to fly away in the
nursery rhyme
★
Blackbirds The four and twenty of them, baked in a pie in the
nursery rhyme.
★
Bullfinch in ''On the Death of Mrs Throckmorton's Bullfinch'', poem by
William Cowper.
★
Canary, Pip, Beth March's unfortunate canary in ''
Little Women'', novel by
Louisa May Alcott
★
Chicken,
Billina, in numerous
Land of Oz books by
L. Frank Baum
★
Chough, Oreb (a "night
chough", a fictitious crow-like species) in ''
The Book of the Long Sun'' and ''
The Book of the Short Sun'' by
Gene Wolfe; also various
hawks and "the white-headed one", some kind of
vulture.
★
Condors, the twin white condors in ''
The Legend of the Condor Heroes'' and ''
The Return of the Condor Heroes''
★
Condor, the divine condor in ''
The Return of the Condor Heroes''
★
Crane in ''The Crane is my Neighbour'', poem by
John Shaw Neilson.
★
Crow, in ''
Crow'', by
Ted Hughes
★
Crow in
Johnny Crow's Garden, series of children's books illustrated by
L. Leslie Brookes
★
Crow and
Oriole in ''
The Crow and the Oriole'', fable,
James Thurber, also ''
The Owl Who was God'', and ''
The Shrike and the Chipmunks''
★
Cuckoo in ''The Cuckoo Clock'', novel by
Mrs. Molesworth.
★
Cuckoo in ''To the Cuckoo'', poem by
William Wordsworth.
★
Dodo, Pickwick, from the Thursday Next series by
Jasper Fforde
★
Dove carrying a sprig flies to
Noah, indicating the end of the
Flood in Book of
Genesis
★
Ducks in ''Four Ducks on a Pond'' by
William Allingham.
★
Ducks in ''Ducks are a Dabbling'', poem in ''
Wind in the Willows'' by
Kenneth Grahame.
★
Duck in ''Farmer Duck'' by
Martin Wadell and
Helen Oxenbury.
★
Eagle, The E-Telekeli (a humanoid
eagle) leader of the Underpeople in the works of
Cordwainer Smith
★
Eagle in ''
The Eagle'', poem by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
★
Eagle,
Thorondor, king of the eagles in the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien
★
Eagle, Farsight, in the Chronicles of
Narnia by
C. S. Lewis
★
Eagles,
Gwaihir and Landroval, in ''
The Lord of the Rings'', also by
Tolkien
★
Goldfinch, Miss Goldfinch the elder and Miss Clara Goldfinch, who have a tea and coffee tavern in
Beatrix Potter's ''
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson''
★
Hawk,
Tobias, a human who becomes stuck in the body of a
red-tailed hawk in the ''
Animorphs'' series by
K. A Applegate
★
Hen, Sally Henny-penny, who re-opens the shop in
Beatrix Potter's ''
Story of Ginger and Pickles''
★
Hen, the black hen in the "Hickety, pickety"
nursery rhyme, anonymous.
★
Kestrel,
Tawny Owl,
Mr. Pheasant and several others in
Animals of Farthing Wood
★
Kingfisher in ''The Kingfisher'', poem by
W. H. Davies.
★
Kingfisher in ''Day of the Kingfisher'', poem by
Paul Grano.
★
Kite,
Chil, in ''
The Jungle Book'' and ''
The Second Jungle Book'' by
Rudyard Kipling.
★
Lorikeet,(Lory),
duck,
dodo and
flamingos in ''
Alice in Wonderland'', fantasy novel by
Lewis Carroll.
★
Nightingale in ''The Emperor and the Nightingale'', by
Hans Christian Andersen.
★
Nightingale in ''
The Decameron'', stories by
Bocaccio.
★
Owl, Archimedes, and various
hawks,
falcons, and white-fronted
geese in ''
The Once and Future King'' by
T. H. White
★
Owl, Old Brown, in
Beatrix Potter's ''
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin''
★
Owl,
Owl in the
Winnie the Pooh books by
A. A. Milne
★
Owl,
Hedwig, (a
snowy owl) in the ''
Harry Potter'' novels by
J. K. Rowling; also many other
owls, used to carry messages.
★
Owl in ''The White Owl in the Belfry Sits'', poem by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
★
Owl in the ''
Little Grey Rabbit'' books by
Alison Uttley.
★
Owl in the ''
Guardians of Ga'hoole'' books by
Kathryn lasky.
★
Parrot, Captain Flint, in ''
Treasure Island'', novel by
Robert Louis Stevenson
★
Parrot, Polynesia, in
Dr. Dolittle stories by
Hugh Lofting.
★
Parrot, A sarcastic parrot belonging to the title character in
Terry Pratchett's ''
Faust Eric''
★
Phoenix in
E. Nesbit's ''
The Phoenix and the Carpet''
★
Phoenix,
Fawkes, in the ''
Harry Potter'' novels by
J. K. Rowling
★
Pigeon in ''Mrs Peck Pigeon'', poem by
Eleanor Farjeon.
★
Pigeons, ''Pigeons on the grass, alas,'' from a poem by
Gertrude Stein
★
Pigeons,
owls,
hens, and an
eagle in
James Thurber's taking issue with Stein's pigeon passage – the story ''
There's an Owl in My Room''
★
Raptors, numerous ''bond-birds'' in the
Velgarth books by
Mercedes Lackey, mostly raptors, usually selectively-bred for size and intelligence
★
Raven in "
The Raven," poem by
Edgar Allan Poe.
★
Raven,
Quoth (a
raven) in the works of
Terry Pratchett (a pun on ''
The Raven'' by
Edgar Allan Poe)
★
Ravens, Roäc and Cärc, two ravens from ''
The Hobbit'', also by
Tolkien
★
Raven, Zoltan, in ''
The Gunslinger'' by
Stephen King.
★
Robin, the
Sparrow, the
Rook and the
Owl in ''
Who Killed Cock Robin?''
★
Robin in ''
The Secret Garden'', novel by
Frances Hodgson Burnett.
★
Robin of the "
Little Robin Redbreast"
nursery rhyme.
★ The
Roly-Poly Bird from several of
Roald Dahl's books for children.
★
Rooster and hen,
Chanticleer and Pertelote (his favorite hen) in "
The Nun's Priest's Tale" by
Geoffrey Chaucer
★
Seagull, Kehaar, in
Watership Down
★
Seagull,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, eponymous character in a short story by
Richard Bach. The story has other gull characters as well.
★
Skylark in Ode ''
to a Skylark'', poem by
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
★
Snow Goose, the final form of
Kaisa, the dæmon of the witch
Serafina Pekkala in the ''
His Dark Materials'' trilogy by
Philip Pullman.
★
Snow goose in ''
The Snow Goose'', novel by
Paul Gallico.
★
Stork, (presumably a
white stork) and a
kingfisher (presumably a
belted kingfisher) in ''
Little, Big'' by
John Crowley
★
Sukh-Shari, in
Thakurmar Jhuli, appears commonly in
Bangla fairy tales
Rupkatha.
★
Swan, in
The Ugly Duckling, (actually a
cygnet) in the story of that name by
Hans Christian Andersen.
★
Swan, in
The Trumpet of the Swan, Louis (Louie in the film) is the mute swan who plays a trumpet as his voice.
★
Swallow in ''
The Happy Prince'', story by
Oscar Wilde.
★ Various
birds in ''
The Birds'', story by
Daphne du Maurier.
★
Soren in The
Guardians of Ga'Hoole seires by
Kathryn Lasky
★ Many species in
Aesop's Fables
★ Many species in
The Conference of the Birds, a Persian book of poems by Farid ud-Din Attar.
★ Many species in
La Fontaine's fables.
★ Many species in
Brian Jacques's
Redwall novels.
★ Many species in
Thornton Burgess's children's stories.
★ Many species including the
Ratbird in
Paul Stewart's
Edge Chronicles series.
Birds on the radio
★ The Wise Old Bird on the planet Brontitall in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Birds in animation, comics, puppetry, and theme parks
★
Abelardo Montoya, a very big
parrot,
Big Bird's Mexican counterpart on ''
Plaza Sesamo''
★ The Aracuan Bird, in various Walt Disney cartoons
★ Archimedes, an
owl in Disney's ''
The Sword in the Stone''
★
Articuno,
Zapdos,
Moltres,
Lugia and
Ho-Oh from ''
Pokémon''
★
Beaky Buzzard, a
buzzard in the ''
Looney Tunes'' and ''
Merrie Melodies'' cartoons and his
Mama
★
Big Bird, a very big
canary, and
Little Bird on ''
Sesame Street''
★ Big Mama, an owl in the Disney film ''
The Fox and the Hound''
★
Birdy,
Kira Yamato's robotic pet created by
Athrun Zala as a parting gift;
Gundam Seed
★
Birdie the Early Bird from
Mc Donald's
★ Blackbird, a pirate (based on
Blackbeard) in ''
The Legend Of Anne Bunny
★ Booker, a baby chick in ''
Garfield and Friends''
★ Buzz Buzzard in
Woody Woodpecker
★ 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''
★
Camilla, a
chicken and
Gonzo's romantic interest on ''
The Muppet Show''
★ Cathryn Aura and her son Nigel, vultures in
Kevin and Kell
★
Charlie the Owl in the ''
New Zoo Revue''
★ of
★
Chilly Willy, a
penguin in the
Walter Lantz cartoons
★
Concord Condor a
Tiny Toons Adventures character
★
Count Duckula
★
Cow and Chicken
★ Cozy Heart Penguin, a
Care Bears cousin
★ ''
The Crow'' is a comic about a superhero associated with a
crow
★ The
crows in ''
Dumbo''
★
Daffy Duck, a
duck in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons
★
Darkwing Duck, of the Disney television cartoon of the same name
★
Dave and Ping Pong,
Larrison,
Mort '
Almondine in ''
Camp Lazlo''
★
Diablo,
Maleficent's raven, in Disney's animated version of ''
Sleeping Beauty''
★ The last of the
Dodos in ''Looney Tunes''
★ Dodo from
Animal Crackers
★
Donald Duck,
Daisy Duck,
Huey, Dewey and Louie,
Ludwig Von Drake, and
Scrooge McDuck in the
Walt Disney cartoons
★
Duckman, a
duck in the cartoon of the same name
★ Flit, a
hummingbird in Disney's animated version of ''
Pocahontas''
★ Friend Owl, in Disney's ''
Bambi''
★
Frobisher (aka Avan Tarklu), an alien shapeshifter from the Dr. Who comic strip who preferred the form of a
penguin
★
Foghorn Leghorn, a
rooster in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons
★
Gogo Dodo in ''
Tiny Toon Adventures''
★ The
Goodfeathers (
pigeons) in ''
Animaniacs''
★
Graculus in ''
Noggin the Nog''
★ The Great Bird Conspiracy in
Kevin and Kell
★
H. Ross Parrot on ''
Sesame Street''
★ Giant
hawks flown by the Glider
Elves in
Elfquest comics
★
Henery Hawk, a
chickenhawk in the ''
Looney Tunes'' and ''
Merrie Melodies'' cartoons
★
Howard the Duck in the comic book of the same name
★ Howland
Owl, and Sarcophagus MacAbre, a
vulture in
Walt Kelly's ''
Pogo''
★ Iago, a
parrot in Disney's animated version of ''
Aladdin''
★
Jose Carioca, a
parrot in various Walt Disney cartoons
★ Jose, Michael, Pierre, and Fritz,
parrots in
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at Disney theme parks
★ Kehaar the seagull in ''
Watership Down''
★ Kotreeka birds in
Gene Catlow
★ Lupe Toucan, Hazel, Laura, Vanessa, Goth, Cory, Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Miss Loon, is other in ''
My Gym Partner's a Monkey''
★
Matthew,
Dream's raven in the DC Comics
Sandman series
★
Opus, a
penguin in
Berkeley Breathed's ''
Bloom County''
★ Ollie, an owl
Toonimals!
★
Owls in ''
Futurama'', considered vermin in the 31st Century
★
Owl in Disney's animated versions of the
Winnie the Pooh stories
★ Owl and Goose in ''
Franklin''
★ Panchito, a
rooster in ''
The Three Caballeros''
★
Pen2, a penguin from ''
Neon Genesis Evangelion''
★ The
penguin waiters in ''
Mary Poppins''
★ in '' of
★ Pigeon, the eponymous avian and central stooge in ''
Sidewards'
★ The
pigeons from ''
Pigeon Street''
★ ''
Pingu'', a
penguin in the animated children's series of the same name (Swiss)
★
Pino, the blue nephew of
Big Bird, appears in
Sesamstraat, the Dutch spin-off of
Sesame Street
★
Plucky Duck in ''
Tiny Toon Adventures''
★
Pokey the Penguin, a penguin living in the
Arctic Circle, in the
webcomic of the same name
★ Professor Yaffle, a
Green Woodpecker in ''
Bagpuss'' (UK)
★ The purple
falcon sidekick of
Birdman
★ of
★ The
Road Runner (a
roadrunner) in the ''
Looney Tunes'' and ''
Merrie Melodies'' cartoons
★ of
★
Sam the Eagle, patriotic eagle on ''
The Muppet Show''
★ Scuttle, a
seagull in Disney's ''
The Little Mermaid''
★ Sheldon, an unhatched chick egg, in ''
Garfield and Friends''
★
Shoe, a grumpy, cigar-smoking newspaper publisher in his own
comic strip
★ Shirley McLoon in ''
Tiny Toon Adventures''
★ Sonny (a
cuckoo), a cartoon spokesbird for
Cocoa Puffs cereal (USA)
★
Superchicken
★
Thundra, a
phoenix in ''
Aladdin''
★
Toucan Sam, a
toucan, the cartoon spokesbird for
Froot Loops cereal (USA)
★ of
★
Tweety, a
canary in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons
★ The
vultures in Disney's animated version of ''
The Jungle Book''
★ The
Why Bird, in BBC educational programme ''
Playdays''
★
Woodstock in the
Charles Schultz's ''
Peanuts''
comic strip
★
Woody Woodpecker, a
woodpecker in the
Walter Lantz cartoons
★ Yankee Doodle
Pigeon in
Hanna-Barbera's ''Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines''
★ Ying Ying,
Hannibal Roy Bean's henchbird in ''
Xiaolin Showdown''
★ Yoyo, an
owl in ''
The Books of Magic'' comic book by
Neil Gaiman and others
★ Zazu, a
hornbill in ''
The Lion King''
Birds in film
★ Babs and Ginger (
hens) and Fowler and Rocky (
roosters) in ''
Chicken Run''
★ ''
The Crow'' (based on the comic of the same name) is about a superhero associated with a
crow
★ Falcon (a
falcon) and Margalo (a
canary) in ''
Stuart Little 2''
★
Paulie (a
parrot) in the film of the same name
★ The killer birds in the
Hitchcock film ''
The Birds'' (and the
Daphne du Maurier story on which the film is based)
★ Mordechai: Pet falcon of Richie Tenenbaum in
The Royal Tenenbaums
★ Waddlesworth (a
parrot) in ''
102 Dalmatians''
★ Howard - "
Howard The Duck" aka "Howard: A New Breed of Hero" (1986)
★ Zazu, from
The Lion King
★ Nigel, a (
Brown Pelican) (
Herring Gull), in ''
Finding Nemo''
★ The Vultures (a
gastornis) (
phorushrhacos)
★ Lt. Puffin (a
puffin)
The Swan Princess
★ Louie, the main character of
EB White's
The Trumpet of the Swan
★ Iago (a
parrot) from Aladdin
★ Hedwig, Pigwidgeon (
owls ) from Harry Potter
Birds in music
★
Blackbird in the
Beatles' ''
Blackbird''
★
The Birds – British band
★
The Black Crowes – American band
★
The Byrds – American band
★ The
doves in
Prince's ''
When Doves Cry''
★ ''
Free Bird'' by
Lynyrd Skynyrd
★ The old grey
goose who drowned in the millpond in ''
Go Tell Aunt Rhody''
★ The
Kookaburra of the
Australian song of the same name
★ ''
The Lark Ascending''; composition by
Vaughan Williams
★ ''
Mockingbird'' by
Carly Simon and
James Taylor
★
The Mutton Birds – band
★
The Mynah Birds – band
★ ''
The Nightingale''; composition by
Igor Stravinsky
★ ''Oiseax exotiques'' and ''Catalogue d'oiseaux''; organ compositions by
Olivier Messiaen.
★ The
turkey in ''
Turkey in the Straw''
★ ''
And Your Bird Can Sing'' by
The Beatles
★ "City Bird" from the album
Satanic Panic in the Attic by
Of Montreal.
★ Bird song in transcribed form is found in Antonio Vivaldi's ''
The Four Seasons'', Richard Wagner's ''
Siegfried'', Richard Strauss's ''
Der Rosenkavalier'', Camille Saint-Saëns's ''
Le Carnaval des Animaux'' and Olivier Messiaen's ''Chronochromie'' and ''Coleurs de la cité céleste''.
★ "Bird of Paradise" by
Snowy White
★ "Bird on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen
★ "Cry of the Blackbirds" by
Amon Amarth
Birds in sports
★ The
Anaheim Ducks
★ The
Arizona Cardinals
★ The
Atlanta Hawks
★ The
Atlanta Thrashers
★ The
Baltimore Orioles
★ The
Baltimore Ravens
★ The
Bellevue Blackhawks
★ The
Boston Doves (now Atlanta Braves)
★ The
Chicago Owls (defunct)
★ The
Kansas Jayhawks
★ The
Oklahoma Thunderbirds (defunct)
★ The
Pittsburgh Condors (defunct)
★ The
Pittsburgh Penguins
★ The
St Louis Cardinals
★ The
St Louis Eagles (defunct)
★ The
Seattle Seahawks
★ The
Seattle Thunderbirds
★ The
Temple Owls
★ The
Toronto Blue Jays
★ The
UBC Thunderbirds
Birds in video games
★ The
Chozo in the
''Metroid'' series
★ Beat the Bird in ''
Mega Man''
★ Chill Penguin and Storm Eagle in ''
Mega Man X''
★ Crow in
The Longest Journey
★ Overdrive Ostrich in
Mega Man X2
★
Pentarou in
Parodius series,
Yume Penguin Monogatari,
Antarctic Adventure
★
King Dedede,
Coo,
Pitch, and
Dyna Blade (Kirby) from the
''Kirby'' series
★
General Tsao,
Captain LeFwee,
Clockwerk, and
Arpeggio in the ''
Sly Cooper'' trilogy
★ Maurie, Cass, Lenny, a in
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
★
Pengo
★ Stew, Chick, Penta, Farmer, Evil Twins, from
Crash Bandicoot series
★
Indian Peafowl,
flamingo and
ostrich from ''
Zoo Tycoon 2''
★
Secretary Bird from ''
★
Albatoss in the '' and
Super Mario Bros. 2''
★
Raphael Raven in ''
★
Bumpty in ''
★ Cyber Peacock and Storm Owl in ''
Mega Man X4''
★
Falco Lombardi in the
''Star Fox'' series
★
Sgt. James Byrd in the ''
Spyro the Dragon'' series, beginning with ''
★ Various
Pokémon, including
Lugia,
Chatot,
Staravia,
Moltres, and
Honchkrow, among others.
★
Helmaroc King and Kargorocs in the ''
★
Chocobo in the ''
Final Fantasy'' series
★
Kaepora Gaebora in the ''
★
Kazooie, the sidekick in the ''
Banjo-Kazooie'' series
★
List of Animal Crossing cha, the owner of the museum in the ''
Animal Crossing'' series
★ , in '', the sister of Blathers
★ The
Babylon Rogues of ''
Sonic Riders''
★ Tiki the
Kiwi from ''
New Zealand Story''
★ Prinny in the Disgaea Series
Birds in commerce
★
Granny Goose
★
Toucan Sam, a toucan, the cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (USA)
★ Floyd D. Duck
Bubble Yum
★
Sonny the Cuckoo Bird,
Cocoa Puffs
Birds in toys
★ Rocket, Stilt, Hooters, Baldy, Mac, Early, in
Beanie Babies
See also
★
Bird
★
List of fictional ducks
★
List of fictional penguins
★
★
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