List of fictional birds

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
• 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
• 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
• Phoenix in Egyptian mythology
• Pisia in Native American mythology
• Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology
• Raven in Native American religions
• 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
• Billina (a chicken) in numerous 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
• Chil the Kite in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• The E-Telekeli (a humanoid eagle) leader of the Underpeople in the works of Cordwainer Smith
• Gwaihir (an eagle) 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
• 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 seagull), eponymous character in short story
• 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 Anderson
• Owl (an owl) in the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne

Birds in Heraldry

Birds in Television

• Professor Yaffle (a Green Woodpecker), in Bagpuss (UK)
• Sonny (a cuckoo), a cartoon spokesbird for Cocoa Puffs cereal (USA)
• Toucan Sam (a toucan), a cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (USA)

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
• Cathryn Aura of Kevin and Kell
• Charile the Owl in the New Zoo Review
• Daffy Duck, a duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• The last of the Dodoes in Looney Tunes
• 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
• H. Ross Parrot on Sesame Street
• Henery Hawk, a chicken hawk in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
• Nigel Aura in Kevin and Kell
• Owls in Futurama, considered vermin in the 31st Century
• Plucky Duck in Tiny Toon Adventures
• Birdman's purple falcoln 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
• 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

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

Related Topics

• List of fictional animals
• Bird

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