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BIRDS IN LEGENDS, MYTHOLOGY, AND RELIGION BIRDS IN LEGENDS, MYTHOLOGY, AND RELIGION Swan Maiden - a mythical creature who shapeshifts from human form to swan form.  JUDEO-CHRISTIAN Noah's Dove  Noah's Raven  TALMUDIC Bar Juchne  Ziz - a giant bird said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.  AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY Lightning Bird - a real or imaginary bird superstitiously associated with special powers, generally lightning.  AZTEC MYTHOLOGY Quetzalcoatl - a god of wind, creativity, and fertility, frequently depicted as a Feathered Serpent.  BUDDHIST MYTHOLOGY Garuda - enormous predatory birds with intelligence and social organization.  CHINESE MYTHOLOGY Fenghuang - mythological birds that reign over all other birds.  Shang-Yang  Zhu Què (Vermilion Bird) - a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations  EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY Ba  Bennu - the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix, and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra.  GREEK MYTHOLOGY Griffin - a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.  Harpies - winged death-spirits.  Phoenix - a mythical sacred firebird.  Sirens - female figures that lured sailors to their death with their music.  Sphinx - a unique demon of destruction and bad luck represented as a winged lion with a woman's head.  HINDU MYTHOLOGY Garuda - a lesser Hindu divinity, usually the mount (vahanam) of Vishnu.  Jatayu - a demi-god who has the form of a vulture.  Sampaati - brother to Jatayu.  JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY Ho-o - Japanese version of the Chinese Fenghuang.  Kin-u  Suzaku - Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird.  Yatagarasu - a 3-legged raven who belongs to the sun goddess Amaterasu.  KOREAN MYTHOLOGY Ju-jak  Samjoko - A 3-legged bird associated with the sun. 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  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 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 Sirin - a mythological creature with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl).  Zhar-Ptitsa - a magical glowing firebird from a faraway land

BIRDS IN TELEVISION

Canary M. Burns, the Canary. On The Simpsons Carly, the Cardinal spokes/songbird for National Arbor Day in the U.S.  Dahl (parrot), household pet of the Kennedy family in the Australian soap-opera Neighbours  Fred the cockatoo in Baretta  Owl, from Winnie the Pooh  Rosita, Dolores and Marguerita, parrots who advertise Tropicana brand orange juice on UK TV

BIRDS ON THE RADIO

The Wise Old Bird on the planet Brontitall in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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  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  Gill a (Brown Pelican) (Herring Gull), in Finding Nemo  The Vultures (a gastornis) (phorushrhacos) Ice Age 2: Meltdown  Lt. Puffin (a puffin) The Princess Swan 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 "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 Toronto Blue Jays

BIRDS IN ANIMATION, COMICS, PUPPETRY, AND THEME PARKS

Abalardo, 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 Pok�mon  Beaky Buzzard, a buzzard in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons  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  Birdee, 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 Gallina Caponata, a big (theoretical) chicken 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  Chicken Pig of Avatar: The Last Airbender  Chilly Willy, a penguin in the Walter Lantz cartoons  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  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 in the Walt Disney cartoons  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 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 Kehaar the seagull in Watership Down  Kotreeka birds in Gene Catlow  Matthew, Dream's raven in the DC Comics Sandman series Opus, a penguin in Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County  Owls in Futurama, considered vermin in the 31st Century  Owl in Disney's animated versions of the Winnie the Pooh stories  Panchito, a rooster in The Three Caballeros  Pen2, a penguin from Neon Genesis Evangelion  The penguin waiters in Mary Poppins  Penguins in Avatar: The Last Airbender of Avatar: The Last Airbender  Pigeon, the eponymous avian and central stooge in Sidewards'  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  Reptile Parrot of Avatar: The Last Airbender  The Road Runner (a roadrunner) in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons  Screaming Bird of Avatar: The Last Airbender  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)  Superchicken  Thundra, a phoenix in Aladdin  Toucan Sam, a toucan, the cartoon spokesbird for Froot Loops cereal (USA)  Turtle Ducks of Avatar: The Last Airbender  Tweety, a canary in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons  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 VIDEO GAMES The Chozo in the Metroid series Beat the Bird in Mega Man  Chill Penguin and Storm Eagle in Mega Man X  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,  in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger  Pengo  Stew, Chick, Penta, Farmer, Evil Twins, from Crash Bandicoot series  Indian Peafowl from Zoo Tycoon 2  Secretary Bird from Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure Albatoss in the Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2  Raphael Raven in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island  Bumpty in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island  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 Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon  Helmaroc King and Kargorocs in the The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker  Chocobo in the Final Fantasy series  Kaepora Gaebora in the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time  Kazooie, the sidekick in the Banjo-Kazooie series  Celeste, in Animal Crossing: Wild World, the sister of Blathers The Babylon Rogues of Sonic Riders  Tiki the Kiwi from New Zealand Story  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 'Coco Puff

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