Birds Guide

Contents 1 Birds in legends, mythology, and religion 2 Birds in literature 3 Birds in heraldry 4 Birds in Television 5 Birds on the radio 6 Birds in animation, comics, puppetry, and theme parks 7 Birds in film 8 Birds in music 9 Birds in sports 10 Birds in video games 11 Birds in commerce 12 See also

Birds in legends, mythology, and religion

• Alkonost in Russian legends
  Ba in Egyptian mythology
  Bagucks in Chippewa mythology
  Bar Juchne in Talmud
  Camulatz in Mayan mythology
  Chamrosh in Persian mythology
  The Cu Bird (el Pájaro Cu) in Mexican folklore
  Noah's Dove in the Bible
  Feng-huang (Chinese Phoenix) in Chinese mythology
  Firebird in Native American mythologies
  Ember bird in Russian fairy tales
  Gamayun in Russian folklore
  Garuda in Buddhism and Hinduism
  Griffin in European mythology
  Hábrók, a hawk from Norse mythology
  Harpies in Greek mythology
  Hokhokw in Kwakiutl mythology
  Ho-o in Japanese, imported from Chinese; Fenghuang
  Huginn and Muninn (Thought and Memory), Odin's two companion birds in Norse mythology
  Jatayu in Hindu mythology
  Kin-u in Japanese, imported from Chinese
  Kwakwakalanooksiwae in Kwakiutl mythology
  Lightning Bird, a real or imaginary bird in southern African folklore
  Phoenix in Egyptian mythology
  Pisia in Native American mythology
  Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology
  Raven in Native American mythologies
  Noah's Raven in the Bible
  Roc in Persian mythology
  Samjoko in Korean mythology
  Shang-Yang (a rainbird) in Chinese mythology
  Simurgh in Persian mythology
  Sirin in Russian folklore
  Suzaku in Japanese mythology, imported from the Chinese Shu-jaku
  Tecumbalam in Maya mythology
  Thunderbird in Native American mythologies
  Xecotcovach in Maya mythology
  Yatagarasu in Japanese mythology
  Ziz in Talmud

Birds in literature

• The albatross in Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  Archimedes (an owl) and various hawks, falcons, and white-fronted geese in The Once and Future King by T. H. White
  Billina (a chicken) in numerous Land of Oz books by L. Frank Baum
  numerous bond-birds in the Velgarth books by Mercedes Lackey, mostly raptors, usually selectively-bred for size and intelligence
  The black hen in the "Hickety, pickety" nursery rhyme
  Mr. Brown, the owl in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
  Chanticleer (a rooster) and Pertelote (his favorite hen) in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
  Chil the Kite in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  Crow, by Ted Hughes
  Johnny Crow, the crow star of a series of children's books illustrated by L. Leslie Brookes
  The Crow and the Oriole, one of James Thurber's fables; also, The Owl Who was God, and The Shrike and the Chipmunks
  A dove carrying a sprig flies to Noah, indicating the end of the Flood in Book of Genesis
  The E-Telekeli (a humanoid eagle) leader of the Underpeople in the works of Cordwainer Smith
  Fawkes (a phoenix) in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling
  Captain Flint (a parrot) in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  The four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie in the nursery rhyme
  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
  Thorondor, king of the eagles in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
  Gwaihir and Landroval, also eagles, in The Lord of the Rings, also by Tolkien
  Roäc and Cärc, two ravens from The Hobbit, also by Tolkien
  Hedwig (a snowy owl) in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling; also many other owls, used to carry messages
  Jack and Jill, the blackbirds on a hill told to fly away in the nursery rhyme
  Kaisa, the dæmon of the witch Serafina Pekkala in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. His final form is a snow goose.
  Kehaar the seagull in Watership Down
  Sally Henny-penny, the chicken who re-opens the shop in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles
  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
  Owl (an owl) in the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne
  A sarcastic parrot belonging to the title character in Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric
  The phoenix, in E. Nesbit's The Phoenix and the Carpet
  Pickwick, a dodo from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
  "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
  Pip, Beth March's unfortunate canary in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
  Polynesia, a parrot in Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories.
  Quoth (a raven) in the works of Terry Pratchett (a pun on The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
  The raven in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
  The robin of the "Little Robin Redbreast" nursery rhyme
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull (a gull), eponymous character in a short story by Richard Bach. The story has other gull characters as well.
  A stork (presumably a white stork) and a kingfisher (presumably a belted kingfisher) in Little, Big by John Crowley
  Tobias, a human who becomes stuck in the body of a red-tailed hawk in the Animorphs series by K. A Applegate
  The Ugly Duckling (actually a cygnet) in the story of that name by Hans Christian Andersen
  Yittleby and Yattleby (alien flightless birds called krylobos) in Wizard's Eleven and the Jinian books by Sheri S. Tepper.
  Zoltan the raven in The Gunslinger by Stephen King.
  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.
  The twin white condors in The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes
  The divine condor in The Return of the Condor Heroes

Birds in heraldry

Birds in Television

• Carly, the Cardinal spokes/songbird for National Arbor Day in the U.S.
  Dahl (parrot), household pet of the Kennedy family in the Australian soap-opera Neighbours
  Fred the cockatoo in Baretta
  Owl, from Winnie the Pooh
  Rosita, Dolores and Marguerita, parrots who advertise Tropicana brand orange juice on UK television
  Tony Soprano's swimming pool ducks in The Sopranos

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

• 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
  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
  Birdee, Kira Yamato's robotic pet created by Athrun Zala as a parting gift; Gundam Seed.
  Blackbird, a pirate (based on Blackbeard) in The Legend Of Anne Bunny
  Booker, a baby chick in Garfield and Friends
  Buzby, yellow bird of unspecified species in advertisements for British Telecom in the late 1970s/early 1980s
  Gallina Caponata, a big (theorical) chicken similar to Big Bird in Spanish version of Sesame Street
  Cathryn Aura and her son Nigel, vultures in Kevin and Kell
  Charlie the Owl in the New Zoo Revue
  Chicken Pig of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Chilly Willy, a penguin in the Walter Lantz cartoons
  Cozy Heart Penguin, a Care Bears cousin
  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.
  Diablo, Maleficent's raven, in Disney's animated version of Sleeping Beauty
  The last of the Dodos in Looney Tunes
  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
  Giant hawks flown by the Glider Elves in Elfquest comics
  The Great Bird Conspiracy in Kevin and Kell
  H. Ross Parrot on Sesame Street
  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, parrot sin Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at Disney theme parks
  Kehaar the seagull in Watership Down
  Kestrel, Owl, Mr. Pheasant and several others in Animals of Farthing Wood
  Kotreeka birds in Gene Catlow
  Matthew, Dream's raven in the DC Comics Sandman series.
  Opus, a penguin in Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County
  Owls in Futurama, considered vermin in the 31st Century
  * Owl in Disney's animated versions of the Winnie the Pooh stories.
  Pen2, a penguin from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  Panchito, a rooster in The Three Caballeros
  The penguin waiters in Mary Poppins
  Penguins in Avatar: The Last Airbender of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  The pigeons from Pigeon Street.
  Pingu, a penguin in the animated children's series of the same name (Swiss)
  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
  Reptile Parrot of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  The Road Runner (a roadrunner) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
  Screaming Bird of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  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)
  Toucan Sam, a toucan, the cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (USA)
  Turtle Ducks of Avatar: The Last Airbender
  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
  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 (also made into a television series) is about a superhero named The Crow, but he associated with an actual 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
  Iago (a parrot) from Aladdin
  Hedwig, Pigwidgeon ( owls ) from Harry Potter

Birds in music

• Blackbird in the Beatles' Blackbird
  The Birds – British 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 on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen

Birds in sports

• The Anaheim Ducks
  The Arizona Cardinals
  The Atlanta Hawks
  The Atlanta Thrashers
  The Baltimore Orioles
  The Baltimore Ravens
  The BellevueBlackhawks
  The Boston Doves (now Atlanta Braves)
  The Chicago Owls (defunct)
  The Oklahoma Thunderbirds (defunct)
  The Pittsburgh Condors (defunct)
  The Pittsburgh Penguins
  The St Louis Eagles (defunct)
  The Seattle Seahawks
  The Toronto Blue Jays

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
  Overdrive Ostrich in Mega Man X2
  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 Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon
  Miscellaneous Pokémon characters, including Pidgey, Delibird, Spearow, Zapdos, and Ho-oh, among many others
  Helmaroc King and Kargorocs in the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  Chocobo in the Final Fantasy series
  Kaepora Gaebora in the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  Kazooie, the sidekick in the Banjo-Kazooie series
  Blathers, the owner of the museum in Animal Crossing
  Celeste, in Animal Crossing: Wild World. The sister of Blathers
  The Babylon Rogues of Sonic Riders
  Tiki the Kiwi from New Zealand Story

Birds in commerce

• Granny Goose

See also

• Bird
• List of fictional ducks