Birds in Legends, Mythology, and Religion

• Ba in Egyptian mythology
• Bagucks in Chippewa mythology
• Bar Juchne in Talmud
• Camulatz in Maya mythology
• Chamrosh in Persian mythology
• The Cu Bird (el Pájaro Cu) in Mexican folklore
• Noah's Dove in Christian religion
• Feng-huang (Chinese Phoenix) in Chinese mythology
• Firebird in Native American mythologies
• Garuda in Buddhism and Hinduism
• Gryphon in European 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
• Kin-u in Japanese, imported from Chinese
• Kwakwakalanooksiwae in Kwakiutl mythology
• Phoenix in Egyptian mythology
• Pisia in Native American mythology
• Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology
• Raven in Native American religions
• Noah's Raven in the Bible
• Roc in Persian mythology
• Shang-Yang (a rainbird) in Chinese mythology
• Simurgh in Persian mythology
• Suzaku or Shu-jaku in Japanese, imported from Chinese
• Tecumbalam in Maya mythology
• Thunderbird in Native American religions
• 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
• Captain Flint (a parrot) in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 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
• 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
• Gwaihir and Landroval (eagles) in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Hedwig (a Snowy Owl) in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling; also many other owls, used to carry messages
• 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
• Pickwick, a dodo from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
• 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
• 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
• Thorondor (an eagle), king of the eagles in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
• 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.
• Many species in Aesop's Fables
• Many species in La Fontaine's fables.
• Many species in Thornton Burgess's children's stories.

Birds in Heraldry

Birds in Television

• Dahl (parrot), household pet of the Kennedy family in the Australian soap-opera Neighbours
• Rosita, Dolores and Marguerita, parrots who advertise Tropicana brand orange juice on UK television.

Birds in Animation, Comics, Puppetry

• 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
• Buzby, yellow bird of unspecified species in advertisements for British Telecom in the late 1970s/early 1980s
• Cathryn Aura of Kevin and Kell
• Charlie the Owl in the New Zoo Review
• Daffy Duck (a duck) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• The last of the Dodos in Looney Tunes
• Donald Duck in the Walt Disney cartoons
• Duckman (a duck) in the cartoon of the same name
• Foghorn Leghorn (a rooster) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• Gogo Dodo in Tiny Toon Adventures
• The Goodfeathers in Animaniacs
• Giant hawks flown by the Glider Elves in Elfquest comics
• Graculus in Noggin the Nog
• Howland Owl and Sarcophagus MacAbre (a vulture) in Pogo
• H. Ross Parrot on Sesame Street
• Henery Hawk (a chickenhawk) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• Nigel Aura in Kevin and Kell
• Opus (a penguin) in Bloom County
• Owls in Futurama, considered vermin in the 31st Century
• Pingu (a penguin) in the animated children's series of the same name (Swiss).
• 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)
• Plucky Duck in Tiny Toon Adventures
• Birdman's purple falcon sidekick.
• The Road Runner (a roadrunner) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• 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), a cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (USA)
• Tweety (a canary) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• Woodstock in the 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

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

Birds in Disney cartoons, comics, and films

• Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, and assorted friends, enemies, and relatives (see also the Clan McDuck, Scrooge McDuck universe, etc.)
• Iago (a parrot) in Aladdin
• Owl (an owl) in A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories
• Scuttle (a seagull) in The Little Mermaid
• Waddlesworth (a parrot) in 102 Dalmatians
• Zazu (a hornbill) in The Lion King

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