Shovel Bird

The Shovel Bird is a character from the 1951 Disney animated feature film, Alice in Wonderland. It is one of the creatures that Alice encounters in the Tulgey Wood area.
==Background==
The Shovel Bird, as its name implies, is a bird-like creature with a grey shovel used for its head and mouth seen in a plumage of green feathers with yellow ones around its neck and on its head, as well as a long orangish brown neck and pair of legs and feet with three toes each. It is shown to be very busy doing its digging habits using its own shovel for its ability to dig (presumably digging for something underground) though Alice does not physically ask it for directions.
==Appearances==
===Alice in Wonderland===
The Shovel Bird is encountered after Alice encounters a group of Umbrella Vultures while on her way to find a way out. Alice hears digging nearby and then observes it digging dirt in a happy mood while she tries to find a way out only for Alice to unawarely bump into a Cage Bird and two of its birds inside. Two Shovel Birds are later seen approaching Alice who is singing "Very Good Advice" where it and the other creatures of Tulgey Wood approach her singing. Soon as Alice cries, another Shovel Bird also cries and tearfully reacts to Alice who is lost in Tulgey Wood alongside a family of Horn Ducks and a Mirror Bird who are also tearfully reacting to Alice just as the Shovel Bird and the other creatures of Tulgey Wood suddenly disappear. The Shovel Bird make no further appearances throughout the rest of the film. 
===Alice's Wonderland Bakery===
One Shovel Bird first appears in the episode, "Jambalaya Jamboree" and is named Diggy.
== Video Games ==
=== Disney Dreamlight Valley ===
While the Shovel Birds themselves are absent from this game, their eggs are featured as a cooking ingredient in The Storybook Vale. The eggs can be purchased at Goofy's Stall in the Bind for 160 Star Coins.
==Trivia==
*The Shovel Bird is one of the few creatures from the Tulgey Wood area that does not appear in the Alice in Wonderland attraction at Disneyland.
==Gallery==
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Tulgey51PaintBook.jpg|A Shovel Bird in a page from the 1951 paint book
TulgeyWood1980sComic.jpg|1981/1982 European comic illustration
TulgeyWoodEuropeanIllustration.jpg|Early 1980s European illustration by Van Gool-Lefevre-Loiseaux
TulgeyWoodEuropeanIllustration3.jpg|A second illustrated adaptation by Van Gool-Lefevre-Loiseaux, used for France and Italy during the late 80s and early 90s
AliceTulgeyWoodStorybookArtists90s.jpg|Disney Storybook Artists' illustration (1997, early version)
AliceTulgeyStorybookArtists.jpg|Disney Storybook Artists' illustration (1997, updated version with the Shovel Bird re-illustrated to have a less awkward-looking design)
AliceTulgeyWoodNewIllustration.jpg|Disney Storybook Artists' illustration from the late 2010s
AliceTulgeyWoodComic02.jpg|1998 comic book illustrations
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AliceTulgeyWood2000Book.jpg|Disney's Wonderful World of Reading (2000)
TulgeyWoodDLP2013.jpg|The birds at the 2013 Disneyland Paris Gala Dinner Show event, Disney Dreamers Everywhere
File:Shovel Bird Eggs.png|A Shovel Bird egg from Disney Dreamlight Valley
Category:Alice in Wonderland characters
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