List of fictional birds

Table of contents 1 Birds in Legends, Mythology, and Religion 2 Birds in Literature 3 Birds in Television 4 Birds in Animation, Comics, Puppetry 5 Birds in Film 6 Related Topics

Birds in Legends, Mythology, and Religion

• Ba in Egyptian mythology
• Bagucks[?] in Chippewa mythology
• Bar Juchne[?] in Talmud
• Camulatz in Mayan mythology
• Feng-huang[?] in Chinese mythology
• Firebird in Native American mythologies
• Garuda in Buddhism and Hinduism
• Gryphon in European mythology
• Harpies in Greek mythology
• Phoenix in Egyptian mythology
• Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology
• Raven in Native American religions
• Roc in Persian mythology[?]
• Shang-Yang[?] (a rainbird[?]) in Chinese mythology
• Simurg[?] in Persian mythology[?]
• Tecumbalam in Mayan mythology
• Thought[?] and Memory[?], Odin's two companion birds in Norse mythology
• Thunderbird in Native American religions
• Xecotcovach in Mayan mythology

Birds in Literature

• 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 Allen Poe)
• The raven in Edgar Allen 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 swan) in the story of that name by Hans Christian Anderson

Birds in Television

• Big Bird (a very big canary) in Sesame Street
• Sonny (a cuckoo), a cartoon spokesbird for Cocoa Puffs[?] cereal
• Toucan Sam[?] (a toucan), a cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal

Birds in Animation, Comics, Puppetry

• Daffy Duck (a duck) in the Looney Tunes cartoons
• Donald Duck (a duck) in numerous Disney cartoons
• Giant hawks flown by the Glider Elves in Elfquest comics
• Owls in Futurama, considered vermin in the 31st Century
• The Road Runner (a roadrunner) in the Loooney Tunes[?] cartoons
• Tweety (a canary) in the Looney Tunes 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[?]
• Iago (a parrot) in Aladdin
• Waddlesworth (a parrot) in 102 Dalmatians[?]
• Zazu (a hornbill) in The Lion King

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

Related Topics

• List of fictional animals
• Bird