LIST OF FICTIONAL BIRDS

Contents

Birds in legends, mythology, and religion

Kwakiutl mythology

Magyar mythology

Mayan mythology

Mexican

Native American mythology

Norse mythology

Persian mythology

Russian mythology

Birds in literature

Birds on the radio

Birds in animation, comics, puppetry, and theme parks

Birds in film

Birds in music

Birds in sports

Birds in video games

Birds in commerce

Birds in toys

See also

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.

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 byLouisa 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''

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★ 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''

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★ 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

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

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★ 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)

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★ Thundra, a phoenix in ''Aladdin''

★ Toucan Sam, a toucan, the cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (USA)

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★ 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

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★ 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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