List of fictional birds
Appearance
This list of fictional birds is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. Ducks, penguins and birds of prey are not included here, and are listed separately at list of fictional ducks, list of fictional penguins, and list of fictional birds of prey.
Struthioniformes (ostriches)
Name | Work | Notes |
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Big Eggo | Big Eggo | |
Madame Upanova | The "Dance of the Hours" segment of Fantasia | |
Olivia Ostrich | Working with Words (Journey Through the Jungle of Words). | |
Ossie Ostrich | The Tarax Show and Hey Hey It's Saturday |
Casuariformes (cassowaries and emu)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Emu | Emu | Emu |
Apterygiformes (kiwis)
Name | Work | Notes |
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Goodnight Kiwi | Goodnight Kiwi | |
Ivy | Ivy the Kiwi? |
Anseriformes (waterfowl)
See also List of fictional ducks and List of fictional ducks in animation
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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N/A | Goose | The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs | |
Alice and Chloe | Canada geese | Rio | |
Gandy Goose | Goose | Donald Duck cartoons | |
Gladstone Gander | Goose | Donald Duck cartoons | |
Gus Goose | Goose | Donald Duck cartoons | |
Louis | Trumpeter swan | The Trumpet of the Swan and the 2001 film of the same name | |
Mother Goose | Goose | Mother Goose and Grimm | |
Mr. Ping | Goose | Kung Fu Panda | |
Syd 'Swannie' Skilton | Mute swan | Mascot of the Sydney Swans | |
Wammes Waggel | Goose | Tom Poes |
Galliformes (landfowl)
Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos)
Name | Work | Notes |
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Isabel, Annabelle, and Maribelle the Flamingos | 64 Zoo Lane | |
Pinkster | Wild Kratts |
Columbiformes (pigeons and doves)
Name | Species | Work | Notes | ||||
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Archimedes | White dove | Team Fortress 2 | Dab | Dodo | Ice Age | ||
Dodo | Dodo | Alice in Wonderland and the 1951 film by the same name | |||||
Gogo Dodo | Dodo | Tiny Toon Adventures | |||||
The Goodfeathers (Squit, Bobby, and Pesto) | Pigeons | Animaniacs | |||||
Homer Pigeon | Pigeon | Walter Lantz cartoons | |||||
Willow | Western crowned pigeon | Angry Birds Stella | |||||
Yankee Doodle Pigeon | Pigeon | Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines |
Cuculiformes (cuckoos and roadrunners)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Little Beeper | Roadrunner | Tiny Toon Adventures | |
The Road Runner | Roadrunner | Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies | |
Rowdy | Roadrunner | Mascot of the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners | |
Sonny the Cuckoo Bird | Cuckoo | Mascot of Cocoa Puffs | |
Speed Limit | Greater roadrunner | Wild Kratts |
Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, hummingbirds, and swifts)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Flit | Ruby-throated hummingbird | Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World | |
Violet Sabrewing | Violet sabrewing | DuckTales (2017) |
Gruiformes (cranes, rails, and allies)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Cassandra the Crane | Red-crowned crane | 64 Zoo Lane | |
Crazylegs Crane | Crane | The All New Pink Panther Show | |
Master Crane | Black-necked crane | Kung Fu Panda |
Charadriiformes (gulls, terns, auks, and waders)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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N/A | Gull | Gaston Lagaffe | The aggressive seagull owned by Gaston Lagaffe. |
Garvey Gull | Gull | Donald Duck cartoons | |
Gunnar the Seagull | Black-headed gull | 64 Zoo Lane | |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Lesser-black backed gull | Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the 1973 film of the same name | |
Numenia | Whimbrel | Numenia and the Hurricane | |
Puffo, Mama Puffin, Puff, Finnster | Atlantic puffins | Wild Kratts | |
Scuttle | Gull | The Little Mermaid | |
Thomas, Sharon, Lewis and Jamie the Puffins | Atlantic puffins | 64 Zoo Lane | |
Kehaar | Black-headed gull | Watership Down |
Gaviiformes (loons)
Name | Work | Notes |
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Becky | Finding Dory | |
Bomb | Angry Birds | |
Dave and Ping Pong | Camp Lazlo | |
Shirley McLoon | Tiny Toon Adventures |
Sphenisciformes (penguins)
See List of fictional penguins
Procellariiformes (albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, and storm-petrels)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Orville | Albatross | The Rescuers | |
Wilbur | Albatross | The Rescuers Down Under |
Ciconiiformes (storks)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Larrison | White stork | Camp Lazlo | |
Mr. Stork | White stork | Dumbo and Lambert the Sheepish Lion | |
Ollie | White stork | Alfred J. Kwak | |
Seamus the Stork | White stork | 64 Zoo Lane |
Pelecaniformes (pelicans, herons, ibises, and allies)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Black Heron | Black heron | DuckTales (2017) | |
Blue Beaky | Great blue heron | Wild Kratts | |
Gular | Brown pelican | Wild Kratts | |
Kulinda and Ona | Hamerkops | The Lion Guard | |
Mort | Great white pelican | Camp Lazlo | |
Nigel | Brown pelican | Finding Nemo | |
Ono | Cattle egret | The Lion Guard | |
Pauline the Pelican | Great white pelican | 64 Zoo Lane | |
Sebastian the Ibis | White ibis | Mascot of the Miami Hurricanes | |
Seymore D. Fair | American white pelican | Mascot of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition |
Cathartiformes (New World vultures)
See List of fictional birds of prey
Accipitriformes (hawks, eagles, and Old World vultures)
See List of fictional birds of prey
Strigiformes (owls)
See List of fictional birds of prey
Trogoniformes (trogons)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Burdette | Resplendent quetzal | It's a Big Big World |
Bucerotiformes (hornbills and hoopoes)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Zazu | Southern red-billed hornbill | The Lion King |
Coraciiformes (kingfishers, rollers, and bee-eaters)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Kiki | Malachite kingfisher | Robinson Crusoe | |
Olly | Laughing kookaburra | One of the mascots of the 2000 Summer Olympics |
Piciformes (woodpeckers and toucans)
Name | Species | Work | Notes |
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Eva | Keel-billed toucan | Rio | |
Hal | Emerald toucanet | Angry Birds | |
Headbanger | Pileated woodpecker | Wild Kratts | |
Rafael | Toco toucan | Rio | |
Tallulah the Toucan and Taco the Toucan | Toco toucans | 64 Zoo Lane | |
Toucan Dan | Toco toucan | Timon & Pumbaa | |
Toucan Sam | Toucan | Mascot of Froot Loops | |
Woody Woodpecker | Woodpecker | Walter Lantz cartoons | The character resembles a pileated woodpecker, despite being inspired by an encounter with an acorn woodpecker. |
Falconiformes (falcons and caracaras)
See List of fictional birds of prey
Psittaciformes (parrots)
Passeriformes (perching birds)
Mythical bird characters
Name | Type | Work | Notes |
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Aya Shameimaru | Crow tengu | Touhou Project | |
Fawkes | Phoenix | Harry Potter |
Unspecified birds
- The eponymous protagonists from Angry Birds
- Birdie the Early Bird from the McDonald's commercials
- Buzby, a yellow bird of unspecified species in advertisements for British Telecom in the late 1970s/early 1980s
- Harvey Beaks from the show of the same name.
- Kazooie, the sidekick in the Banjo-Kazooie series
- The Phillie Phanatic, the mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies
- Pino, the Dutch counterpart of Big Bird in Sesamstraat
- Wattoo Wattoo, an oval-shaped black and white bird in Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird
- Woodstock, a bird of unknown species in the Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip.
Fictional bird species
- Chocobo, a bird in the Final Fantasy series
- Jayhawk, part "jay" and part "hawk" this bird is the mascot of the Kansas Jayhawks sports teams and has roots in Kansas lore
- The Jubjub Bird from Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky"
- Breegulls, of which Kazooie is one, from the Banjo-Kazooie series
- Loftwings, flying mountable birds based on shoebills featured in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Mockingjay, central bird that is part of the Hunger Games trilogy
- Porgs, a species of penguin or puffin-like birds that live on Ach-To in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- The Roly-Poly Bird from Roald Dahl's children books The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits
- The Snip Snip Bird in 64 Zoo Lane
- Twitter Bird, the mascot of Twitter
- Weatherbird, the mascot of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; identified as a dicky-bird, a generic term for a small bird.
Humans transformed into birds
- The six brothers turned into birds in German fairytale The Six Swans
- The eleven siblings cursed by their queenly stepmother in The Wild Swans
- Princess Odette, a human with a curse that turns her into a swan during the day in The Swan Princess
- The Swan Maiden, a magical bird who turns into a beautiful woman in several folktales
- Willy, a boy-turned-sparrow and main character in Willy the Sparrow
See also
- List of avian humanoids
- List of fictional birds of prey
- List of fictional ducks
- List of fictional penguins
- List of legendary creatures by type § Birds