Talk:List of fictional birds

message: Is Thorondor himself an eagle? -- Timwi 00:47 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: Ah, yes, he is . -- Timwi 00:49 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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Regarding Sonny and Toucan Sam... they're on television and they're not real... sounds like they belong in the List of fictional birds to me... 
If you disagree, please explain why first, rather than just removing them again. --Dante Alighieri 18:59 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: They should stay - I performed extra research to determine Sonny's species! :)) -- Timwi 20:43 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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Owl (friend of Winnie-the-Pooh) is mentioned twice: once under Literature and again under Disney. At the very least one of the entries needs to be slightly different. Phil 13:04, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
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Anyone have the works of Liam O'Flaherty?  They should be a good source.
I think T. H. White's Archimedes is a tawny owl.  Can anyone confirm?
Are medieval beast fables literature or folklore?
--JerryFriedman 01:32, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is it a list of "fictional birds" (birds that aren't real) or "birds in fiction" (real birds used in books, songs, etc.)? There needs to be two lists.
Five17 18:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second this emotion. Ravens and owls are not "fictional birds". Specific individuals of species would qualify, as would species that are made up. I tbink it's probably POV to classify birds from religion as "fictional" because a great many people believe them to be literally real. Applejuicefool 16:24, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What exactly is this list meant to be? 

message: * Bagucks in Chippewa mythology
: Is it really a bird. It is no where made clear on the Bagucks article, where it is referred to as a spirit.
: I ran a google search, got 200+ links, but all of them either refer to a list similar to one in the article or start off as "Bagucks is a mischievous spirit, a skeletal bird ...". Could not find a good source of information. If you have one please mention it in the references.
:: I don't think it is a bird at all, though it flies.  The word bakaak in the Anishinaabe language means "skeleton" or "extremely thin".  Now, there are several similar sounding phomes also at play here: /bagak=/ indicates "clear" or "concise" or "plainly"; /baagaakw=/ indicates "pounding" or "milling"; /baakaak=/ indicates "opening"; and /bakaak=/ indicates "thinness".  In the typical aadizookaan regarding Bakaak, all four phomes are used in making the point of the story.  CJLippert 17:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The link takes you to the disambiguation page. Please fix the link if possible.
myth 04:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments on recent removal of certain links 

message: Not sure what the alternative is but "fictional" is not applying to much of this list.
Birds in literature? Birds in entertainment? Famous Birds?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.110.194.35 (talk) 19:23, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "fictional" is all kinds of wrong here 

message: where is Daffy duck?
--190.53.177.181 (talk) 03:55, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He went that-a-way! 28bytes (talk) 12:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daffy Duck

message: I've been noticing something strange in the Charadriiformes section. In one part, it tries to tell us about a character called "Abby", who is an avocet, but it just cuts off at "a female avocet in the". Another thing I found strange was that someone was adding in birds from a book called "Avifauna of Sardinia". Not sure about you guys, but to me that sounds more like a book about information on birds from the Italian island of Sardinia rather than a fictional story about birds from Sardinia. I've tried doing research on both of these and so far have found nothing. Hopefully someone can finish Abby's description and prove me wrong on the whole "Avifauna of Sardinia" thing. --Budgielover2988 (talk) 03:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll see what I can find out.  Worse comes to worst, we can just delete those entries altogether.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:41, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: After doing some searching, "Abby" was from a comic strip called "Krafty and Waldo," but, I could not find any trace of that alleged comic strip via google.  We really need to purge this list of non-notable mentions.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:50, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see. I do agree with you on that, a lot of characters on the list could be considered as "non-notable" (for instance, someone mentioned a flock of seagulls from a deleted scene in Lilo and Stitch), but then again notable could be subjective, so maybe the reason why those people added them in was because they thought they were notable? It's pretty much become a giant list of bird characters at this point, whether they're notable or not, if it's a bird, then it goes on the list. The sad thing is I don't think it was originally intended to be that way. You think we should make another list of all of the minor/background bird characters to make those people happy without them "littering" the main list? --Budgielover2988 (talk) 00:17, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: By "notability," I mean the criteria listed in WP:NOTABILITY, like, for example, protagonists and deuteragonists.  Plus, of course, reliable sources that would explain the notability.  Unfortunately, while your suggestion is a good one, but, is ultimately futile, as other editors would not tolerate a list of non-notable fictional entities for long, and that the various editors who insist on listing non-notable characters are never (sea)gullible enough to accept such an arrangement, either.  Ultimately, we're going to have to go through and purge, binge and rewrite the list.--Mr Fink (talk) 00:58, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok then. Sounds like a plan. I wish good luck to you guys. Also, I liked that pun "(sea)gullible". --Budgielover2988 (talk) 02:14, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: Where do Jayhawks go in this list?--Paul McDonald (talk) 11:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jayhawks? 

message: Please add a new item under "Struthioniformes". The name should be "Sweet Dee" from the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". This was previously listed under a different section, then removed for an unknown reason. However, it's clear from Season 13 Episode 7 "The Gang Does a Clip Show" that Sweet Dee is an ostrich and is pictured in the source below:
https://i.imgur.com/jR1FgeU.jpg
Thank you Apokusin (talk) 22:25, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done AdA&D 00:51, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweet Dee is confirmed to be an ostrich 

message: There is something that I would like to address. Using bulleted lists is efficient, but I find it that they do not provide enough information. Tables provide more information, and they are efficient, too. We have tables on the pages for the list of fictional marsupials and the list of fictional primates. I would propose replacing the bulleted lists on this article with tables.
Under each section, the tables would provide the name of the bird, its species, the title of the work it originated from and additional notes. Other data needed for specific media types will be included in the tables, too (for instance, in "Birds in literature," the tables would mention the book's author). The additional notes should only be brief summaries or notes regarding the work mentioned in the row.
Does anybody else think that the bulleted lists should be replaced with tables?
--Uptherial (talk) 03:48, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Tables Instead of Bullets

message: This page lists the Angry Birds together as if they are a single species. Many officially licensed books have revealed the true species of some of the characters, such as Red being a desert cardinal, and Stella being a galah. I mean, in the page for fictional birds of prey, Mighty Eagle and Silver have separate entries. That must also be applied here. SquidwardTentacools 06:21, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Angry Birds are of different species, not a collective one. 

message: On the Angry Birds page, Terence is said to be a Red-tailed Hawk, but on that page it is said that He is a Northern Cardinal, should I correct this or not? 2804:1684:170:7800:2826:5F3E:9E73:70C8 (talk) 19:38, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should Terence from Angry Birds be on the List of Fictional Birds page or the List of Fictional Birds of Prey?