Woodstock ( Peanuts ) - wikipedia Woodstock ( Peanuts ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2010 ) Woodstock Peanuts character First appearance April 4, 1967 ( Comic Strip ) ( unnamed until June 22, 1970 ) Snoopy, Come Home ( 1972 Feature Film ) Birthday : December 10, 1970 Voiced by Bill Melendez ( 1972 -- 2006 ; archival recordings in Snoopy 's Grand Adventure and The Peanuts Movie ) Jason Victor Serinus ( 1980 ) Andy Beall ( 2011 - present ) Information Species Bird Gender Male ( originally female ) Occupation Secretary to Snoopy Family Mom, Grandpa Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz 's comic strip Peanuts. Contents 1 History 2 Character 3 Gender 4 Species 5 Awards and honors 6 References History In the early 1960s, Snoopy began befriending birds when they started using his doghouse for various occasions : a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, a community hall, or a place to play cards. None of these birds were ever given names, although they did, on occasion ( e.g., July 10, 1962 ), use speech balloons, lettered in what would become the classic ' chicken scratch marks ' of Woodstock 's utterances. What set Woodstock apart from all these earlier birds was the fact that he attached himself to Snoopy and assumed the role of Snoopy 's sidekick and assistant. There had been no recurring relationships between Snoopy and the earlier birds who visited the yard of the Browns, and Snoopy was as often as not more hostile than friendly toward those birds. However, in the Peanuts daily comic strip on the March 3, 1966, a mother bird flew in while Snoopy was lying on top of his dog house. She chose Snoopy 's stomach as a good place to make her nest, and Snoopy says `` Why does this always happen to me ? '' She then lays two eggs and flies away, leaving Snoopy alone with the nest. Two babies hatch, and one of them becomes Woodstock. One year later, Woodstock arrives on Snoopy in the April 4, 1967 comic. Charles Schulz began to establish character traits for Snoopy 's new friend by revealing that he could talk ( more accurately that he could complain, in the form of repetitive sounds in word form -- `` gripe, gripe, gripe, gripe '', `` complain, complain,... '' ), that, unlike normal birds, he did n't like to fly south every winter, and that his flying skills were not quite up to snuff. By the end of this four - strip sequence, Snoopy, in character as the World War I Flying Ace, learns that the bird is his new mechanic, Woodstock 's first supporting role. After this introduction, the unnamed Woodstock is seen with Snoopy on occasion, and other birds continue to appear as they had for years. But Woodstock is singled out as the bird who befriended Snoopy, in part by continuing references to him as the Flying Ace 's mechanic ( July 12, 1967 ; June 12 -- 14, 1968 ). On June 14, 1968, 14 months after his first landing on Snoopy and after a second appearance as a supporting character for Snoopy ( his wrist wrestling partner on April 25, 1968 ), the most important aspect of Woodstock 's relationship with Snoopy is made clear : Snoopy first refers to this bird as his buddy. This identification was more than enough for readers to know, if they had n't already figured it out, that this little bird, name or no name, had assumed the role of a regular character in the Peanuts cast. Schulz did not give him a name until June 22, 1970. Schulz acknowledged in several print and TV interviews in the mid-1970s that he took Woodstock 's name from the rock festival. ( The festival 's logo shows a bird perched on a guitar. ) Character Woodstock is a bird who quickly becomes Snoopy 's best friend. The only non-bird character who can understand Woodstock 's speech is Snoopy. When depicted in the comic strip, his speech is rendered almost entirely in `` chicken scratch '' marks, with Snoopy 's either directly translating or allowing the reader to deduce Woodstock 's meaning in the context of Snoopy 's replies. Woodstock does make nonverbal noises such as yawns ( November 23, 1972 ), laughter, sighs ( November 22, 1972 ) and `` Z '' s or snores to indicate sleep. He also uses punctuation marks like `` ! '' or `` ? ? '' to indicate emotions. In the movies and television specials, the chicken scratches are rendered audibly as a staccato series of high - pitched honks and squawks by Snoopy 's voice actor Bill Melendez. Woodstock often works as Snoopy 's secretary ( most notably when the latter was appointed `` Head Beagle '' ), and caddies for him when he plays golf ( usually with some difficulty ). Woodstock also plays American football with Snoopy, usually attempting to catch the ball but, due to his size, he is simply hit by it ; sometimes getting embedded into the ground a short distance. Woodstock also claims to have contact lenses ( June 8, 1995 ). Woodstock is a small but nice - hearted yellow bird. He resourcefully wins the river rafting race in Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown after all other contestants have been eliminated. He routinely takes Snoopy 's gentle verbal digs and practical jokes in stride, though he does not hesitate to stand up to Snoopy if his friend goes too far. Once, he and Snoopy stopped speaking to each other because of Snoopy 's practice of reading War and Peace one word per day. When told that Woodstock was being attacked by the cat next door, Snoopy immediately rushed to his aid, getting clobbered in the process ( what the cat was attacking ended up being actually a yellow glove ). He also hates being mistaken for the wrong species of bird ( though we are never told what species he actually is ), and he is reluctant to eat thrown bread crumbs because he does n't want anyone to think he 's on welfare, and when asked about his net income by Snoopy in his ' census - taker ' persona, he replied `` four worms a day ''. He 's a whiz at playing trivia too, and almost always manages to stump Snoopy. Woodstock is also a skilled whistler. In the TV special, She 's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown, when Peppermint Patty 's music for a skating competition fails to play due to a malfunction that can not be repaired expediently, Woodstock steps up to the microphone and whistles a flawless O Mio Babbino Caro, to which Peppermint Patty performs her routine. He also whistles his part in the song `` The Best of Buddies '' ( via an instrumental version entitled `` Woodstock 's Samba '' ) in the feature film Snoopy Come Home. For all of Woodstock 's acumen and talent, he is physically a very poor flyer, which has been a character trait since he first appeared. He flutters around in erratic fashion, often upside down, and frequently crashes into things. He usually manages to get where he wants to go as long as he does n't have to fly too high. He is prone to beak - bleeds if he goes over 10 feet in the air. Despite his difficulty in flying as a bird, he is skilled in piloting Snoopy as a canine helicopter, or `` whirlydog. '' When asked where he learned to pilot, Woodstock replied ( speaking in his usual chicken scratches, but translated ), `` Nam. '' This gag appeared in the strip several times as well as in It 's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown. During the winter, he relaxes by either skating or playing ice hockey on top of the birdbath, complete with his own Zamboni machine to keep the surface clean ( except one year where Woodstock asks Snoopy to migrate with him, and the duo take the trip on foot ). His one - goal throughout the comic is to track down his mother so he can send her a Mother 's Day card. In the TV special It 's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, Snoopy buys Woodstock a birdhouse to replace his nest after a cold early spring rain. At first, Woodstock refused to use it, so Snoopy forced the issue. Checking up later on Woodstock, Snoopy peers into the birdhouse to find Woodstock has converted it into a 1970s - style leisure room ( complete with a quadraphonic stereo system ) that appears much larger on the inside than from outside ( much like Snoopy 's own doghouse ). Unfortunately, Snoopy gets his nose stuck in the door and demolishes the house, so he buys Woodstock a second birdhouse, which Woodstock accepts. Woodstock and his fellow yellow birds ( named Bill, Harriet, Olivier, Raymond, Fred, Roy, and Conrad ) often join Snoopy for group activities, with Snoopy as the de facto leader. Most frequently they embark on Beagle Scout expeditions with Snoopy as scoutmaster - or as a patrol of the French Foreign Legion on their march for Fort Zinderneuf, led by Snoopy as their sergeant. They also have formed football and ice hockey teams ( on one occasion a football team composed of Snoopy and the birds defeated a human football team led by Peppermint Patty ). The birds and Snoopy occasionally are shown playing bridge. Although all but Raymond ( who is darker ) look alike, Snoopy seems to be able to tell them apart. An important and recurring characteristic of Woodstock is his absurdly and hilariously high physical strength and endurance, considering he could n't weight more than about 50 grams. When playing hockey against Snoopy on his `` home ice '' ( a frozen birdbath ), he administers the beagle a severe body check that sends Snoopy fly away clear out of the birdbath. In another instance, Woodstock discovers a `` strange creature '' in his nest. Linus wants to investigate the nest and asks Snoopy to `` give him a boost '' so he can reach the tree 's lowest branch, which Snoopy does. The branch being still out of Linus 's reach, Woodstock gives Snoopy and Linus both a boost, holding them in the air at wings ' length, finally allowing Linus to climb the tree. Another strip has Snoopy once again try to determine what species Woodstock belongs to. Snoopy theorizes Woodstock might be an eagle. Since Snoopy has heard somewhere that eagles are capable of lifting a small child, he suggests Woodstock to try that with Linus. The bird successfully lifts Linus with his wings three inches in the air and holds him up. A last instance is when Snoopy, posing as a football coach, is angry at his player Woodstock for losing `` the book with all our secret plays '', and orders the bird to run twenty thousand laps around the field as punishment. Woodstock fearfully complies. Both Snoopy and Woodstock were voiced by Bill Melendez from 1972 to 2006. Gender Schulz originally considered the bird to be a female, but after the naming on June 22, 1970, it incidentally changed to be a male. As he explained in an interview in 1987 : `` I had been reading the Life magazine article about the Woodstock Festival and I had the little bird in the strip. It was a she and she was Snoopy 's secretary and I was doing secretary jokes quite often so then I thought Woodstock would be a good name for this bird and also, it will get the attention of these people that liked that kind of thing. Suddenly she was not a secretary ; she became Woodstock, the boy. It just happened. But that 's what 's good about a comic strip -- you can just do it. '' Despite this, Woodstock was referred to as a male as early as the strip from June 12, 1968. In the Norwegian translation of Peanuts, the bird is named `` Fredrikke '' -- a female name -- and is always referred to as female. Finnish translation uses the name `` Kaustinen '', without a specified gender and Spain translations uses the name `` Emilio '' -- a male name. Species At one point Snoopy attempts to identify what type of bird Woodstock is with the aid of a field guide, asking Woodstock to attempt to imitate various birds : crow, American bittern, Carolina wren, rufous - sided towhee, yellow - billed cuckoo, Canada goose, warbler and mourning warbler. Snoopy finally gives up trying to figure it out, and says, `` For all I know, you 're a duck ! '' Woodstock then cries and Snoopy hugs him and apologizes. Woodstock is left - handed. Awards and honors Schulz was a keen bridge player, and Peanuts occasionally included bridge references. In 1997, according to Alan Truscott, the American Contract Bridge League ( ACBL ), awarded both Snoopy and Woodstock the honorary rank of Life Master, and Schulz was delighted. According to the ACBL, only Snoopy was awarded the honor. References Notes Jump up ^ `` Frequently Asked Questions - Charles M. Schulz Museum ''. Jump up ^ Charles M. Schulz, Celebrating Peanuts : 60 Years, 2009, Lionheart Books Ltd., p. 177. Jump up ^ `` Woodstock < < Peanuts ''. Retrieved April 4, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Bill Melendez at Moby Games ''. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 25. Jump up ^ Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1967 - 1968, New York, Fantagraphic Books, pp. 41 - 42, 83, 207, 227 - 228. Jump up ^ Sherman, Richard M. and Robert B. ( 1972 ). Snoopy Come Home : Original Soundtrack Recording. USA : Columbia Masterworks. Jump up ^ `` Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman And Don Ralke -- `` Snoopy, Come Home '' Original Soundtrack ``. Discogs.com. Retrieved 1 April 2016. Jump up ^ `` Peanuts Comic Strip, June 12, 1968 on GoComics.com ''. Retrieved 2017 - 11 - 03. Jump up ^ Schulz, Charles. `` Peanuts by Charles Schulz, October 11, 1980 Via @ GoComics ''. GoComics. Retrieved 2016 - 04 - 28. Jump up ^ Truscott, Alan ( July 10, 2000 ). `` BRIDGE ; Snoopy 's Finest Card Game ( Trump That, Red Baron ! ) ''. New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Who Plays Bridge ''. ACBL. Retrieved July 18, 2016. Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz Filmography Characters Charlie Brown Sally Brown Eudora Franklin Frieda Great Pumpkin Kite - Eating Tree Little Red - Haired Girl Marcie Patty Peggy Jean Peppermint Patty Pig - Pen Schroeder Shermy Snoopy Snoopy 's siblings Linus van Pelt Lucy van Pelt Rerun van Pelt Violet Woodstock other characters Feature films A Boy Named Charlie Brown Snoopy, Come Home Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Do n't Come Back ! ! ) The Peanuts Movie soundtrack Television specials A Boy Named Charlie Brown ( documentary ) A Charlie Brown Christmas Charlie Brown 's All Stars ! It 's the Great Pumpkin... You 're in Love... He 's Your Dog... Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz ( documentary ) It Was a Short Summer... Play It Again... You 're Not Elected... There 's No Time for Love... A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving It 's a Mystery... It 's the Easter Beagle... Be My Valentine... You 're a Good Sport... Happy Anniversary... ( documentary ) It 's Arbor Day... It 's Your First Kiss... What a Nightmare... Happy Birthday... ( documentary ) You 're the Greatest... She 's a Good Skate... Life Is a Circus... It 's Magic... Someday You 'll Find Her... A Charlie Brown Celebration Is This Goodbye... ? It 's an Adventure... What Have We Learned... ? It 's Flashbeagle... Snoopy 's Getting Married... It 's Your 20th Television Anniversary... ( documentary ) You 're a Good Man... Happy New Year... ! Snoopy ! ! ! The Musical It 's the Girl in the Red Truck... This Is America... ( 8 episodes miniseries ) You Do n't Look 40... ( documentary ) Why, Charlie Brown, Why ? Snoopy 's Reunion It 's Spring Training... It 's Christmastime Again... You 're in the Super Bowl... It Was My Best Birthday Ever... Good Grief... : A Tribute to Charles Schulz ( documentary ) Here 's to You... : 50 Great Years ( documentary ) It 's the Pied Piper... The Making of `` A Charlie Brown Christmas '' ( documentary ) A Charlie Brown Valentine Charlie Brown 's Christmas Tales Lucy Must Be Traded... I Want a Dog for Christmas... He 's a Bully... Happiness Is a Warm Blanket... Animated series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show Peanuts Motion Comics Peanuts Video games Snoopy and the Red Baron Snoopy Snoopy 's Magic Show Snoopy 's Silly Sports Spectacular Snoopy Concert Snoopy Tennis Snoopy vs. the Red Baron Snoopy Flying Ace The Peanuts Movie : Snoopy 's Grand Adventure Other media Music `` Better When I 'm Dancin ' '' A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack `` Christmas Time Is Here '' `` Linus and Lucy '' Musicals You 're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Snoopy the Musical Book series Charlie Brown 's Super Book of Questions and Answers The Complete Peanuts Educational films Tooth Brushing It 's Dental Flossophy, Charlie Brown Charlie Brown Clears the Air Related Charles M. 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Question: what's the name of the bird in charlie brown
Answer: Woodstock