Birds

Birds are animals with wings and feathers. There are numerous species throughout the world. While most of them can fly, there are also flightless birds, such as penguins and ostriches.
Hanna-Barbera has had birds in nearly all their animated series, specials, and movies.
== Tom and Jerry ==
* Little Quacker was a duckling who appeared in some of Tom and Jerry's shorts. He was the model for Yakky Doodle.
* "Flirty Birdy": Tom disguises himself as a female bird to retrieve Jerry from an eagle.
== The Huckleberry Hound Show ==
* "Two Corny Crows": Huckleberry Hound tries to prevent Iggy and Ziggy from helping themselves to his homegrown corn.
* "Birdhouse Blues": Huck finds crows inside his birdhouse.
== Pixie, Dixie, and Mr. Jinks ==
* "Bird-Brained Cat": Mr. Jinks does his best to keep himself from going after a canary.
* "A Wise Quack": A duckling enters the lives of Pixie, Dixie, and Mr. Jinks.
== Yogi Bear ==
* "Slumber Party Smarty": A duckling tries to get Yogi Bear to share his cave with him.
* "A Duck in Luck": Yogi protects a duck from hunters.
* "High Fly Guy": When Yogi discovers that an eaglet doesn't know how to fly, he teaches him the basics.
== Hokey Wolf ==
* "Pick a Chick": Hokey Wolf and Ding-a-Ling set out to raid a henhouse.
== Yakky Doodle ==
* Yakky is a duckling whose friend, Chopper the bulldog, protects him from Fibber Fox and Alfy Gator.
== Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy ==
The following episodes featured birds:
* "Crow Cronies"
* "Gone to the Ducks"
* "Hum Sweet Hum"
* "Peck O'Trouble"
* "Fuss & Feathers"
* "Yuk, Yuk Duck"
* "Let's Duck Out"
== Snooper and Blabber ==
* "The Case of the Purloined Parrot": A parrot has been stolen, and Snooper and Blabber have to find it.
== The Flintstones ==
* Birds on this series, the spinoffs, and movies were used for a wide variety of purposes, including mops, record player needles, and doctors' intercoms. Sometimes, they were pets or mascots.
== The Magilla Gorilla Show ==
* "Bird-Brained": When a lovebird escapes from the pet shop, Magilla chases him all over town, and finally subdues him with a heavy bag of salt. Mr. Peebles brings the lovebird a mate, who immediately begins acting like a nagging housewife.
* "That Was the Geek That Was": Magilla looks after The Geek Bird, which can only say, "Geek!" and has the unusual ability to teleport itself. 
== Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey ==
* "Pie, Pie, Blackbird": The Queen decides she wants four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. The Goofy Guards set out to capture a blackbird, but he keeps outsmarting them. 
== Jonny Quest ==
* "Treasure of the Temple": One of the animals in this episode is a talking toucan that keeps calling Bandit "Bandito":
* "Shadow of the Condor": This episode features an Andean condor that carries off an owl and Bandit, and also causes the death of Baron Froeling.
* "The House of Seven Gargoyles": Dietrich Sorensen, disguised as a gargoyle, shoos away a bird, but Jonny is the only one who sees him do it.
== The Hillbilly Bears ==
* "Wood Pecked": Paw Rugg tries to get rid of a troublesome woodpecker.
== Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Belt ==
* Sinbad Jr. is accompanied on his sea voyages by Salty the parrot.
* "Dodo à Go-Go": Sinbad Jr. and Salty foil Blubbo’s plan to steal a dodo egg.
* "Rock Around the Roc": Sinbad and Salty go after a cattle rustler who has a giant roc at his disposal.
== Space Ghost ==
* "Space Birds": A villain unleashes mechanical birds to destroy satellites.
* "The Sorcerer": The Sorcerer has a pet vulture. Jace defeats the Sorcerer by taking his magic wand, and turning him into a vulture.
== Frankenstein Jr. ==
* "The Deadly Living Images": The Mad Inventor brings photographs to life. He eventually combines the pictures of a vulture and an octopus to create an octovulture.
* "The Birdman": Frankenstein Jr. and Buzz Conroy go after The Birdman to stop his flock of robot birds.
* "The Alien Brain from Outer Space, Parts One and Two": The Alien Brain enlarges every animal in the zoo, including an ostrich.
== The Impossibles ==
* "The Scurrilous Sculptor": The Scurrilous Sculptor can turn anyone and anything into statues. He's defeated when he himself becomes a statue, and pigeons quickly gather on him.
== Dino Boy in the Lost Valley ==
* “The Bird Riders": Dino Boy and Ugh meet the Bird Riders, a friendly tribe that flies around on giant birds. They intervene when one is attacked by the Rock Pygmies.
* "The Vampire Men": When a prehistoric parakeet sees Dino Boy being captured by the Vampire Men, it flies off to get help from Ugh, Bronty, and Tusko.
== The Space Kidettes ==
* "The Cosmic Condors": The Space Kidettes encounter the Cosmic Condors.
== The Herculoids ==
* "The Beaked People": Krokar and the Beaked People, a race of parrot-like creatures, want to take over Amzot. But first, they have to get rid of Zandor.
* "The Mole Men": When a Mole Man captures a bird, mistaking it for one of the surface people, another Mole Man tells him to put it back.
== The Mighty Mightor ==
* Ork is Little Rok’s pet dodo.
* "The Bird People": The Bird People fly on prehistoric birds. They capture Sheera, intending to sacrifice her to their god, Doga.
* "The Vulture Men": The Vulture Men use prehistoric vultures. They come back in "Return of the Vulture Men."
== Jack and the Beanstalk ==
* While in the giant's castle, Jeremy Keen meets a pair of the Woggle Bird.
== Birdman ==
* Avenger is Birdman's golden eagle. He appears in every episode, as well as the later series, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
* "Vulturo: Prince of Darkness": Vulturo has a mechanical vulture called Dirth. Later, in "The Return of Vulturo," he uses a duplicate of Avenger to lure Birdboy into a trap.
* "The Brain Thief": Professor Shado has created a duplicate Birdman and Avenger.
* "The Chameleon": The Chameleon shapeshifts into a bird at the beginning of the episode.
== Young Samson and Goliath ==
* "Cold Wind from Venus": Samson Samson and Goliath see many animals, including birds, fleeing from a valley to escape the cold.
* "The Terrible Dr. Desto": Samson and Goliath see a giant rok destroying a bridge.
== The Adventures of Gulliver ==
* "Dangerous Journey": Gary Gulliver saves King Pomp from a hawk.
* "The Dark Sleep": Malagar, the sorceress, has a pet raven.
* Ravens, owls, and other birds were seen in other episodes.
== Arabian Knights ==
* Bez has occasionally changed himself into a roc or some other bird.
* “The Great Gold Robbery”: Bakaar’s Soldiers called vultures to drop rocks on the Knights when they saw them coming which made them hide in the caves.
* “Isle of Treachery”: Queen Shaheera placed a letter on a bird and sent it to the Knights so they can rescue them but also to watch out.
== The Three Musketeers ==
* "The Evil Falconer": The evil Falconer has a pet falcon named Diablo. He also has a crow and a flock of vultures at his disposal. And a canary appears in a closing gag.
* "The Mysterious Message": This episode features a canary and a goose.
* "A Fair Day for Tooly": This episode shows D'Artagnan replacing a villain's weapon with a dove.
== Danger Island ==
* A bird is seen in the serial's opening.
== Micro Ventures ==
* "The Tiny Sea": While exploring a pond to observe frogs, the Carters are pursued by a hawk.
== Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines ==
* Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Klunk, and Zilly are always after Yankee Doodle Pigeon.
* "Eagle-Beagle": While pursuing Yankee Doodle Pigeon, the Vulture Squadron has recurring encounters with an eagle.
* "Admiral Bird Dog": In this Magnificent Muttley’’ episode, when Dick Dastardly mistakenly arrives at the South Pole, a penguin tells him he's in the wrong place, and that the North Pole is a long way off.
== The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ==
* "Cross Country Double Cross": At the end of the episode, Penelope Pitstop is about to unveil a statue of Sylvester Sneekly, on which the Hooded Claw has secretly planted a bomb. When he realizes he can't let the statue blow up, he sees a pigeon land on the bomb, and removes his disguise. As Sylvester Sneekly, he gets rid of the bomb just in time.
* "Game of Peril": The Hooded Claw uses a hen and a bear as one of several ways to dispose of Penelope Pitstop.
* "Hair Raising Harness Race": While climbing a mountain with the Ant Hill Mob, Penelope returns a fallen baby eagle to its nest.
== Scooby-Doo (series) ==
* Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers were frightened by owls in several episodes.
* "Never Ape an Ape Man": The gang discovers a parrot on a movie set.
* "Spooky Space Kook": Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are scared by a chicken.
* "Jeepers, It's the Creeper!": At one point, a baby chick mistakes Scooby-Doo for its mother. Later, more chicken eggs hatch, whereupon Shaggy says that Scooby's a mother hen all over again.
* “The Frickert Fracas”: Maude Frickert has created a formula that enlarges a chicken, but it wears off after a short time.
* “Watt a Shocking Ghost“: Scooby, Shaggy and Velma interrogate a parrot, convinced that it knows something about the 10,000 Volt Ghost.
* “Watch Out! The Willawaw”: Scooby and Shaggy are terrified when an owl calls Scooby’s name, and the Willawaw appears an instant later.
* “Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!”: A parrot is seen in this episode.
* “South Pole Vault”: While trying to solve the mystery of the Mad Sea Lion, the gang also observes penguins.
* The ghost of Sarah Ravencroft turns a turkey into a giant.
== Josie and the Pussycats ==
* "Plateau of the Apes Plot" Before turning him into an apeman, Dr. Madro briefly turns Alexander Cabot III into a chicken.
== The Roman Holidays ==
* Birds were used for various purposes, just like those from The Flintstones.
== Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space ==
* "The Backwards-Forward Planet of Xarook": While imprisoned in the tower, Josie McCoy, Alan Mayberry, Alexandra Cabot, and Sebastian see Tiran use his device on a buzzard, causing it to fly backwards.
* "Outer Space Ark": Among the animals controlled by Arkapus are an ostrich-type bird, a duck, and a white stork, and a couple of other birds.
== The ABC Afterschool Special ==
* "The Last of the Curlews": Based on Fred Bosworth’s book, this animated special recounted the migration of a curlew.
== The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't ==
* Johnny Cook and Little Bear are afraid of an owl. Later, a pair of sparrows attack a wolf that's after the boys, and one of them soon flies off to get help from Jeremy Squirrel.
== A Christmas Story ==
* A parrot from the local pet store joins the search for Santa Claus.
== The Addams Family (1973) ==
* Mr. V is the Addams Family's pet vulture.
== Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids ==
* "Double Trouble": Butch Cassidy finds out that Prince Taki is being held prisoner in the Palace of the Birds.
* "The Parrot Caper": The Sundance Kids are assigned to unite two parrots who know a secret formula.
== SuperFriends ==
* "Dr. Pelagian's War": Dr. Pelagian sends his robot Albatrosses, Hector and Helen, to deliver ominous warnings to the tycoons J. Mortimer Hutchinson, Agatha Caraway, and Luther Fenwick.
* "The Fantastic Frerps": King Plasto uses plastic robot geese to drop plastic eggs, which then hatch into plastic objects.
== Goober and the Ghost Chasers ==
* "Inca Dinka Doo": The gang meets up with Gillie's Aunt Wilma and her fellow archaeologists, Carl and Arnold, in Peru to find the city of the Incas. Arnold's objective is the rare Bleep-Bleep Bird.
== Charlotte's Web ==
* The Goose encourages Wilbur to talk, and later gives birth to her goslings.
== Hong Kong Phooey ==
* "Professor Crosshatch": Professor Crosshatch creates the Superbird, which has the traits of several species of birds. These include the speed of a hummingbird, the vocal cords of a parrot, the wisdom of an owl, the eyes of a hawk, the strength of an eagle, the singing ability of a canary, and the beak capacity of a pelican.
== The Great Grape Ape ==
* "S.P.L.A.T's Back, Parts One and Two": The Chicken has birds trained to commit robberies. Grape Ape and Beegle Beagle have to stop him.
== The All-New Superfriends Hour ==
* Every episode of the Wonder Twins segments has Jayna turning herself into an eagle. She has also changed into other birds, including a hummingbird.
== Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels ==
* Captain Caveman has a Cave Bird that pops out of his club, and supplies him with whatever gear he may need.
== CB Bears ==
* Blast-Off Buzzard relentlessly pursues a snake named Crazy Legs.
== Heyyy, It's the King! ==
* One of the King’s friends, Zelda, is an ostrich.
== Godzilla ==
* "The Firebird": Godzilla is summoned to stop a firebird.
== Jana of the Jungle ==
* There were several birds in this series.
== Fred and Barney Meet the Thing ==
* "The Thing Blanks Out": While joining in Miss Twilley’s search for the Yankee Doodle bird, Benjy changes into The Thing to save his friends, and is stricken with amnesia caused by a blow to his head.
== Drak Pack ==
"Color Me Dredful": Dr. Dred drains the color from pink flamingoes as part of his plan to turn the Drak Pack pink.
== Smurfs ==
* Feathers the Crane is used by the Smurfs whenever they need to travel by air.
* "The Smurfs and the Howlibird": Hefty Smurf and Lazy Smurf accidentally turn a baby bird into a monster when their carelessness causes it to ingest one of Papa Smurf's potions.
* Hogatha Flies around on a vulture.
* "The Smurfs' Springtime Special" has them interacting with a duckling.
* "The Raven Wizard": Gregorian, the Raven Wizard, kidnaps Princess Savina, and steals the Harz Diamond. Peewit's intervention foils his plan to become fully human again, and turns Gregorian into a real raven that flies away.
* "The Prince and the Peewit": At the beginning of this episode, Peewit tries his hand at falconry. The falcon eventually proves useful.
* "Once in a Blue Moon": A stork delivers, reclaims, and returns Baby Smurf.
* "The Last Whippoorwill": The Smurfs have to recover a whippoorwill egg in order to save their village from insects.
* "Swashbuckling Smurfs": A pirate's parrot gains control of The Clamulet, and uses it to control the mind of its master, and some of the Smurfs.
== Space Stars ==
* "The Firebird": The Herculoids encounter a firebird while trying to seal up a volcano.
== Shirt Tales ==
* "Wingman": The Shirt Tales try to stop Wingman, who trains birds to steal.
* "Moving Time": The Shirt Tales introduce Nancy to several other Shirt Tales, including Hoozit Owl.
== Pac-Man ==
* "Invasion of the Pac-Pups": A stork brings six puppies, all of which resemble Chomp-Chomp, to Pac-Man's house. At the end of the short, the stork returns with a note. The note says that the puppies were delivered to Pac-Man by mistake, and they are soon replaced by a litter of kittens, all of which resemble Sour Puss.
== Heidi's Song ==
* This film features Hootie the Owl, and a hawk that tries to carry off one of Klara Sesseman’s kittens.
== The Little Rascals ==
* In '"The Case of the Puzzled Pals", during the Rascals' stakeout of the mineral supply store, a number of birds gather around Alfalfa, who is disguised as a Civil War statue. The birds lift him off the pedestal and drop him into a fountain.
== The Biskitts ==
* "The Biskitt Who Cried Woof": Wiggle discovers that King Max has a hawk trained to capture Biskitts, and tries to warn the others.
* There were birds in other episodes as well.
== The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians ==
* "The Fear": Batman is able to figure out that Professor Jonathan Crane is the Scarecrow just by observing the way a crow looks at him.
== Wildfire ==
* "A Visit to Wonderland": Sara and Ellen rescue an injured migratory bird from a hawk, and they and John nurse it back to health. John advises the girls to return it to the wild once it's healed, and they eventually do so just in time for it to join the other migrating birds.
== Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures ==
* "Birds of a Feather Stick to the Roof of Your Mouth": When a cat devours a rare bird, Bill and Ted go back in time to replace it.
== Timeless Tales from Hallmark ==
* "The Ugly Duckling" is one of the fairy tales featured on this direct-to-video animated series.
== Young Robin Hood ==
* Robin has a pet falcon named Arrow.
== Also See ==
* Eagles
 
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