Birdtaurs

The **Birdtaurs** are a species of avian centaurs who are fans of the Herd (minus Wammawink) and Comfortable Doug. They are lead by a "social media influencer" birdtaur named Crandy.

They possess very powerful arms that they can flap hard enough to operate as wings. This gives them incredible upper body strength, with even their smallest members able to lift fully grown centaurs and slabs of stone. They also possess incredible eyesight, being able to watch the surface of Centaurworld from the clouds (which they do frequently, like a tv show). Horse recognizes this as an incredibly powerful military advantage, but the birdtaurs are far more interested in consuming and chatting about entertainment than fighting.

They reproduce through eggs, which also serve as a form of biological communication system and the basis of their global social media platform.

## History

They started watching Horse's story through the sky doors they use as TV being the most watched show to them, thus them knowing about Rider, the Herd, and Mouthpiece's favorite character: Comfortable Doug.

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## Culture and Traditions

They are avian people who live on the Cloud condo complex. They use eggs and young birdtaurs as phones, using them to "tweet" at each other as the newly born bird fetuses crawl off to deliver the message. They are huge fans of Horse and the herd (except for (Wammawink) and Comfortable Doug; they know about them because of skydoors, which let them observe different areas of Centaurworld.

### Herd Con

They hold a convention event for the Herd fandom called Herd Con. Herd Con appears to be a full community event that resembles actual fan conventions, complete with an exhibit hall where fan merchandise is sold, shows and skits being performed in auditoriums, and even followup Q&A sessions resembling fan convention panels.

### Fandoms

The birdtaurs also have sub fandoms for each character.

* **Horse Force:** fans of Horse
	+ Sub-sub fandoms for Horse include: *Horse's Knife* fan club, and the *Apples* fan club
* **Ched Heads:** fans of Ched
* **Hot Gosslings:** fans of Zulius
* **Team Durp:** fans of Durpleton
* **Glendale's Pregnancy Hole Children:** fans of Glendale
* **Douglicans:** fans of Comfortable Doug

There are also general fan clubs for the herd, including:

* *What If...?* club
* *Human World Lore* club
* *Shipper's Cove*

### Social media

To communicate with each other, birdtaurs frequently use specialized magic eggs to tap in messages. After their message is done, the eggs hatch into flightless baby birdtaurs that drop to the ground and crawl away, shouting their message to those around them or to a specific receiver. Birdtaurs who create especially likable messages or fan works are idolized to the point of being treated like leaders. This has devolved into such specific material as creating reactions to their own already recorded reactions.

According to the show's creator, this is intended to show how an over-reliance on social media can desensitize and distance people from the issues and dangers at hand, even when danger is right in front of them. This is also more clearly demonstrated with Bayden's corruption into becoming a minotaur in *The Ballad of Becky Apples*, when the birdtaur is so busy with his social media message that he doesn't even bother to try escaping the Nowhere King's machine.

## Notable members

* Bayden
* Ched
* Crandy
* Hanglydangly
* Mouthpiece
* Old Man

## Trivia

* According to series creator Megan Nicole Dong during an interview Q&A, the birdtaurs and their Herd fandom represent how fandoms in general can be chaotic and unpredictable. This is especially noticeable in their unexpected dislike of Wammawink, who as it turns out, is the series creator's favorite.
	+ The birdtaurs are also partially intended to be a self parody of the series production crew and their love for pop culture.
* Many references to the real-life annual *San Diego Comic-Con* event can be seen during Herd Con, including the infamous Expo floor showcasing fandom merchandise and artists, Hall H (referred to as "Nest H" by the birdtaurs), and even the Herd Con logo itself resembling the iconic SDCC eye logo.
* In The Last Lullaby, near the Rift during the Elktaur's flashback, an old-timey birdtaur can be seen using an egg in much the same way as modern birdtaurs do throughout the series.
* The birdtaurs' fan club *Shipper's Cove* has a sign that depicts Horse and Ched kissing. While this is clearly meant as a joke since the two are often at odds with each other, it ironically becomes true: first when Horse is later seen giving Ched a kiss out of empathy in *Bunch O' Scrunch*, and then with Ched giving Horse a kiss towards the end of *The Last Lullaby* before she and the herd board their new houseboat.