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==Birds in legends, mythology, and religion==
Swan Maiden - a mythical creature who shapeshifts from human form to swan form. Appears in various traditions.

Abrahamic mythology

Judeo-Christian

Noah's Dove
Noah's Raven
Ravens who fed Elijah
Broxa

Talmudic

Bar Juchne

Ziz - a giant bird said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.

African mythology

Lightning Bird - a real or imaginary bird superstitiously associated with special powers, generally lightning.

Aztec mythology

Quetzalcoatl - a god of wind, creativity, and fertility, frequently depicted as a Feathered Serpent.

Buddhist mythology

Garuda - enormous predatory birds with intelligence and social organization.

Chinese mythology

Fenghuang - mythological birds that reign over all other birds. Chinese Phoenix. Cry o* Shang-Yang

Zhū Què (Vermilion Bird) - a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations; it represents the south and the summer season.

Sachamo - large bird with horse legs, commonly found in the eastern side of the United States. Controls minds, and has razor sharped talons, made for killing. Likes to feed on fish, and bears.

Egyptian mythology

Bennu - the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix, and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra.

Greek mythology

Griffin - a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.

Harpies - winged death-spirits.

Phoenix - a mythical sacred firebird.

Sphinx - a unique demon of destruction and bad luck represented as a winged lion with a woman's head.

Hindu mythology

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 - 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.

Japanese mythology

Ho-o - Japanese version of the Chinese Fenghuang.

Kin-u

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 - 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.

Víðópnir, a rooster that sits at the top of Mímameiðr (Yggdrasil).

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.

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

Duck in Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell 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.

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

The Wind Up Bird the unseen character in Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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

Avianthoth, a half man half bird, from the animated series "Avianthoth: Religion Nation"

Avenger, an eagle from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Birdman

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

Cackle Sisters, elegant chickens from Kissyfur

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

Clay and Walter, pigeons from Between the Lions

Concord Condor a Tiny Toons Adventures character

Cow and Chicken

The Crow is a comic about a superhero associated with a crow

The crows in Dumbo

Crow T. Robot, bird-like robot character from Mystery Science Theater 3000

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

Dr. Nitwhite, pelican "inventor", Between the Lions

Emily & Agatha, a two-headed vulture featured in the 1963 Looney Tunes short, Transylvania 6-5000

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

Heckle and Jeckle are magpies that appear in Terrytoons cartoons.

Henery Hawk, a chickenhawk in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons

Hooty, the pet owl of superhero Dr. Mid-nite, a DC Comics character

Howard the Duck in the comic book of the same name

Howland Owl, and Sarcophagus MacAbre, a vulture in Walt Kelly's Pogo

Information Hen, reference librarian, Between the Lions

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

Lorelei, chicken character performed by Jim Boyd, from the early seasons of The Electric Company

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

Marahute, the grand golden eagle in The Rescuers Down Under

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

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Pigeon, the eponymous avian and central stooge in Sidewards'

The pigeons from Pigeon Street

Pino, the blue nephew of Big Bird, appears in Sesamstraat, the Dutch spin-off of Sesame Street

Poelifinario, a fictitious bird species with a distinctive call, thought up and made famous by Dutch comedian Toon Hermans

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 Road Runner (a roadrunner) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons

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

Swan, Penguin, Eaglet, Baby birds, Crane,flamingos, Pigeon, and Owl babies safety in Wonderpets

Superchicken

Tokimaru a japanese Crested Ibis in Time Bokan 2000 Kaitō Kiramekiman

Thundra, a phoenix in Aladdin)

Tweety, a canary in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons

The vultures in Disney's animated version of The Jungle Book

Watson, duck sidekick to Dr. Nitwhite, Between the Lions

The Why Bird, in BBC educational programme Playdays

Woodstock in the Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip

Woody Woodpecker, a woodpecker in the Walter Lantz cartoons

X, an owl from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 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

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

Hedwig, Pigwidgeon (owls ) from Harry Potter

Howard - "Howard The Duck" aka "Howard: A New Breed of Hero" (1986)

Iago, a parrot in Disney's animated version of Aladdin

The killer birds in the Hitchcock film The Birds (and the Daphne du Maurier story on which the film is based)

Lt. Puffin (a puffin) The Swan Princess

Louie, the main character of EB White's The Trumpet of the Swan

Mlle. Upanova the Ostrich and other dancing Ostriches from the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia

Mordechai: Pet falcon of Richie Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums

Nigel, a (Brown Pelican) (Herring Gull), in Finding Nemo

Ofcr. Whittaker, police chicken partner of Ofcr. Fowl (Jaleel White) in "Whittaker and Fowl", movie Marty Wolf filmed early in Big Fat Liar

Oliver & Olivia (and friends), two birds featured in War of the Birds; a 1991 Danish movie.

Paulie (a parrot) in the film of the same name

The Vultures (a gastornis) (phorushrhacos)

Waddlesworth (a parrot) in 102 Dalmatians

Zazu, from The Lion King
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

Free As a Bird also by the Beatles, from Anthology 1

"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 Black Birds" by Amon Amarth

"As Long As The Raven Flies" by Amon Amarth

"Cuckoo For Caca" by Faith No More

"Raven Claws" by Moonspell

"The Raven And The Rose" by My Dying Bride

"Thy Raven Wings" by My Dying Bride

"Swim Seagull In The Sky" by Novembre

"The Real Macaw"
Birds in sports

The Adelaide Blue Eagles

The Adelaide Hills Hawks

The Altona East Phoenix

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 Hawthorn Hawks

The Kansas Jayhawks

The Manly Sea Eagles

The Mt Gravatt Hawks

The New Town Eagles

The Oklahoma Thunderbirds (defunct)

The Paramatta Eagles

The Pittsburgh Condors (defunct)

The Pittsburgh Penguins

The St Louis Cardinals

The St Louis Eagles (defunct)

The Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Thunderbirds

The Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Swans

The Temple Owls

The Toronto Blue Jays

The UBC Thunderbirds

The Western Suburbs Magpies

The Toukley Hawks
Birds in video games

The Cuckoo from the Zelda series

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

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

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

The condor of the Ice Climber series

Klepto the condor from Super Mario 64
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 BabiesFurther Information
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