List of The Bird's Nest characters

A list of characters who appeared in the Kiddie Channel series, *The Bird's Nest*.

## Character Information

### Personality

Determined, persistent, witty, caring, arrogant, short-tempered

### Allies

* Springshare
* Hunter

### Inspiration

* Eric T. Duckman
* Red (Angry Birds)

### Voiced by

Julieta Badillo

**Lerridge** is the main character in *The Bird's Nest*. She is of a very apathetic and stoic nature, almost completely devoid of emotion, and often interacts with her friends through means of sarcasm and occasional bouts of short-tempered anger. She is good friends with Springshare and Hunter. Though frequently taking her friends for granted, Lerridge honestly loves and cares for them, which is very much a comic source for the character.

### Description from website

*Lerridge is a cowardly, lazy, bumbling, arrogant, selfish skidgeon with little self-respect. A fallen idealist who envisions herself as someone who tries to make the world a better place.*

### Appearance

Lerridge is a predominantly blue skidgeon, with a round, spherical body plan. Lerridge's head has various star-shaped feathers on top, which are rainbow, as well as her stomach and tail feathers. Her orange beak is swirled at the front, and about as long as her head is wide.

Despite her beautiful rainbow feathers, Lerridge is the exact opposite of cheerful (something that Springshare usually observes with fascination) and she rarely, if ever, shows any happy expressions (such as smiles or laughs), though on very few occasions, she is briefly shown to be able to smile.

Lerridge seems significantly older than her friends, for example with Springshare and Hunter ranging from 8 to 9 years old, and she threatens to cause them harm in spite of their age.

### Relationships

Springshare is Lerridge's extremely loyal and extremely competent partner, which makes up for Lerridge's extreme incompetence. The two first met in high school and parted ways after graduation, leading very different lives. At this time Lerridge invited her to be partners. Lerridge and Springshare have a strong and solid friendship, as shown in numerous episodes. Lerridge does tend to take advantage of Springshare and in turn Springshare looks down on Lerridge for both her lack of skills and dubious morality. Lerridge has been known to betray Springshare in several episodes, but Springshare is always loyal to Lerridge.

Lerridge would seem to have nothing but contempt for her family. Rightfully so, they are is often abrasive, demanding and abusive towards her. For example, she feels a stronger connection to her father than to any other member of the family. Subsequently, Duckman feels as though Ajax is the only one in the family he truly connects with and can relate to. Despite this strong emotional bond, Lerridge's selfishness often prevents her from making time for Ajax. While they love him as a father, they do not see Duckman as someone worthy of their respect and often ridicule him and run him down. Quite often, they also express apathy and disdain for him on a weekly basis. This fact distresses Duckman, and sometimes leads him to question whether or not they love him.

Duckman's office secretaries. He can't stand them due to their fuzzy feel-good demeanor, and their obnoxious political correctness. Nearly every episode they appear in Duckman kills them for unintentionally irritating him, but as Uranus explained in the first episode, they can survive nearly anything due to being stuffed. However, many occasions show them being killed for the most flimsy and/or shallow of reasons, such as being nice or even merely asking for a vacation. In "", Muffy loses her patience while tutoring Buster, and flunks him.

### Childhood

Lerridge did not have the best childhood. Growing up, she was subjected to various amounts of bullying and ignorance.

Much like her two siblings, Lerridge was bullied and left out by her peers growing up for reasons never quite understood. When she was little, she would sneak away from school and go home because she couldn't stand to be there. She did not make any friends until high school, where she befriended Springshare. In high school, Lerridge singled out King Chicken, as she too was bullied, Lerridge would turn the kids attention away from her to avoid the ridicule. This caused her lifelong grudge against King Chicken, although it didn't help Lerridge escape when King Chicken wasn't around.

### Quotes

1. "It's my way or the highway!"
2. "You know, I used to target spies for breakfast!"
3. "Let this be a lesson for anyone who thinks they can get over on me!"
4. "Alright everybody, I think you need a time out!"
5. "We're all birds of a feather here. Just put it down, okay?"
6. "I put it in the back of the closet. Now are we done using our imaginations?"
7. "Oh no, you won't get rid of me that easily. I'm testing this on the spot!"
8. "Look, I would feel bad for you. If there was any truth to what you just said."
9. "No, I'm not going for that. Either you can have the broken glass on the screen, or you can look at your glasses half fixed."
10. "My goal is to mischaracterize the most beloved influencers by framing them in any way possible as terrible anti-people who are trying to destroy the world."
11. "I took the many years of good, and I did a lot with the good. My popularity, I was involved in charities, I overcame my illnesses, all over here. I shared all of that with you guys, every secret I had... every emotion. Everything was open to us. And what happens now? Huh?"
12. "Hey, if you leave faster, you can't expect people to just buy something new every time. But if something breaks, hey, that's just how it goes. If things get broke, you spend money to fix it. And then you get broke, it's the circle of life. Except they won't teach you in schools that life stands for living in financial exhaustion. That may be a horrible model, but hey, I never said our business was pretty. Now, the way things break around here and you've gotta..."

## Character Information

### Relatives

* Winter Breeze (mother)
* Autumn Leaves (father)
* Summertime (older sister)

### Personality

Polite, sweet, thoughtful, carefree, extroverted, talkative, helpful, selfless

### Allies

* Lerridge
* Hunter

### Inspiration

* Various characters
* Abby Mallard
* Chuck (Angry Birds)

### Voiced by

Cherrix Carregando

**Springshare** is a main character and the secondary protagonist in the series who is Summertime's younger sister. She is Lerridge's endlessly loyal work partner, and one of her only friends.

### Appearance

Springshare is a tall white ptarmigan with has peculiar body proportions; a minuscule torso with a large head and gangly limbs, similar to a ballerina's. To complete the ballet look, she wears a pink tutu and pink ballet shoes. She has a similar personality to her friends. She has an orange beak with matching legs, blue eyes, and long feathered hair in pigtails with pink bows.

### Personality

Springshare is Lerridge's business partner and best friend. Springshare is a very talented ptarmigan and has skilled knowledge from practically every walk of life. She knows dozens of things and claims to know various topics. Most of the cases solved by the Detective Agency are solved by Springshare, with Lerridge usually hurting the case rather than helping. She has had numerous former occupations before a ballerina.

Springshare is the most "girlish" of the group, engaging in activities such as dancing in her tutu. She loves ballet, puppies, unicorns, playing dolls, messing around with her friends, and generally depicts all the stereotypes concerning normal girl activities.

### Trivia

* Springshare's favorite color is pink.
* While Springshare's birthday is never stated outright, it was implied that she is a Gemini as shown in the episode "Get Rich Quick."
* A running gag in the series is Springshare showing Lerridge her new dance moves over and over again, forgetting she has already showed her many times.
* She is the first character who is named after a specific weather/season of some sort, alongside her sister Summertime and their unknown parents.

## Character Information

### Personality

Energetic, zany, silly, goofy, childish, innocent, naive

### Allies

* Lerridge
* Springshare
* Various

### Voiced by

Fred Pescatore

**Hunter** is a cheerful and slow-witted blackbird who Lerridge typically resents.

### Personality

Hunter is cool, upbeat and a calming guide in stressful situations. He tends to see the bright side of things and is an optimistic blackbird. Springshare describes him as being "chipper." Hunter is kind, responsible, very organized, and supportive of others, especially Lerridge. He seems to prefer avoiding danger and being cautious, as seen in the abundance of redundant ideas he comes up with, but tends to get himself and others into trouble anyways. He is extremely quirky, but it is what makes him likable.

### Appearance

Hunter is a tall blackbird with long, overgrown feathers. He also has a sparkly silver beak with matching legs.

### Trivia

* His favorite color is grey.
* His favorite food is granola birdseed.
* He makes lots of mistakes. He even makes the same mistakes twice, or sometimes 23 times in a row.
* Hunter is one of four characters who know how to fly and has done it before.
* He lives on 425 Birdhouse Street.
* He and Lerridge are immune to colds, as they have both formerly caught one.
* Hunter may also have a crush on Summertime (who is Springshare's older sister), with whom he has often flirted with and helped out.

## Skidgeon Family

On rare occasions, one might admit that they love or respect the other, or come very close to admitting it at the very least. Bernice moved in after Beatrice died to help raise her nephews. The house was transferred to her name thanks to Beatrice's will, and due to this or at least partially she has little to no respect for how the family's home life operated before she moved in. She promptly changed the family's diet, routine and kicked Duckman out of the master bedroom. Because of her loathing Duckman, she has taught the other family members, particularly Charles and Mambo, to disrespect and ridicule their father.

## Character Information

### Personality

Cheerful, clumsy, naive, friendly, good-natured

### Inspiration

* Digit LeBoid
* Wheeler

### Voiced by

Maller Mattarusky

**Birdson** is a supporting deuteragonist who often fills a comic-relief role.

### Personality

Birdson is well-intentioned, but can be clumsy and awkward. He often serves as a comic relief character, and has several idiosyncratic catchphrases. Birdson can also be worrisome and overbearing at times, but he is typically sweet and mostly comes across solutions to problems by accident, and is quick to accept being called a genius before he knows how what he said or did was useful.

In the episode "Birdy Squad", Birdson is shown to realize that he makes a lot of mistakes. Lerridge uses this as a weakness to manipulate him into feeling guilty and unappreciated, but Birdson is ultimately comforted by the rest of his friends.

### Appearance

Birdson is a purple stork with lavender details. His beak is rounded and about as long as his head is wide, with prominent nostrils at the base, and contains three sharp buck-teeth at either side.

Birdson's wings can function as hands, and his tail is a large propeller, with four triangular tail feathers that act as blades (although he is usually only drawn with three visible at a time, even from the back). His height and length in profile are each about three times the width of his head. Birdson has spiky, rhombus-shaped feathers that usually stick out of his red baseball cap. He also wears a red necktie, and yellow shoes with red details.

Birdson physically resembles Digit from *Cyberchase*. In fact, he is designed in a way to parallel this role, but this is later retconned. He also resembles Wheeler from *Flower Forest Fairies*, another show that the producers created in 2014. However, this is usually a coincidence, as the producers joined production of *The Bird's Nest* in September 2019.

### Trivia

* Birdson has built virtual nests, but admits to not being very good at it, and he is unable to do so when he tries, likely due to being nervous.
* The feather-hair strands that stick up from Birdson's hat can be used as self-defense shields.

## Character Information

### Relatives

* Winter Breeze (mother)
* Autumn Leaves (father)
* Springshare (younger sister)

### Personality

Optimistic, big-hearted, easygoing, bossy, dominant

### Enemies

* Lerridge
* Springshare
* Hunter

### Inspiration

* Springshare
* Abby Mallard
* Summer Penguin

### Voiced by

Gentille Winderwood Pattisade Dannesh

**Summertime** first made her debut as a major antagonist to her younger sister, Springshare. She is the resident artist in Cascade Crestfalls and, in addition to making wonderful artwork with her Paintbrush Marker, she also has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow using it, which she would soon use to her advantage.

### Description from website

*With her ice-cold charm and fire-hot skills, Summertime is super creative, loves to draw, paint, and dance. She is Springshare's big sister and has the biggest heart ever!*

### Personality

Summertime views herself to be of a higher class than her sister Springshare, calling her a 'least favorite little sister' on some occasions, possibly indicating that she is somewhat discriminating towards her younger peers. She also seems to be very domineering, and sometimes uses this aspect of her personality to get others to do what she wants them to.

### Biography

This character only appears in three episodes, with "Cheer, Happiness, and Personality" being her first (and only) major role.

In said episode, Summertime did not want to let Springshare's friends attend the event, but her sister warned her that if she did not allow them to be invited, she would tell their parents, leaving her no choice. Summertime seems to submit fast with blackmail and makes a solution by simply allowing Springshare and her invited friends to come, only requiring them to behave properly in order to come to the event.

At the event, none of Summertime's friends showed up and as a result, she was crushed. Hunter, however, saw her crying outside (displaying a more sensitive side of her), and tried to comfort her by cleaning up the ruined house. Summertime seemed calmed by his offer and admitted that he was not so bad for a blackbird. Summertime was extremely happy and gave Hunter a kiss on the cheek as a form of gratitude.

### Appearance

Summertime slightly resembles her younger sister Springshare; she is another ptarmigan, but with purple feathers instead of white. Her sparkly hairstyle has a swirly tuft on the forehead and pigtails fastened with glittery pink hair-bobbles. She has an orange beak and matching legs. Summertime's outfit consists of a light blue sweater with a smiling sunshine on the front. Attached to her sweater is a matching light blue skirt with snowflakes.

Outside of the show's episodes, Summertime previously wore a light blue t-shirt with a similar smiling sunshine on the front and a light pink stripe on the rims of the sleeves and collar, as well as darker pink hearts on the bottom, followed by a fuchsia tutu. Also, her pigtails had glittery snowflake-shaped hairclips instead of the pink bobbles.

### Trivia

* Summertime was featured in the episodes "Cheer, Happiness, and Personality", "Days of Judgement", and "The Route Less Traveled", but she later disappeared, along with many other characters and elements, due to badly negative reception. It is unknown what happened to Springshare's older sister, or if her absence will ever be explained, albeit Springshare reveals that Summertime went off to college.
* She is the second character who is named after a specific weather/season of some sort, alongside her sister Springshare and their unknown parents.

### Quotes

1. "Ugh, clearly a song is not gonna do it!"
2. "My least favorite little sister! Here for another humiliating defeat?"
3. "Yeah. I do that when I'm bored sometimes."
4. "Aren't I such a royal princess? Just call me Summerella! I love to sparkle in pretty dresses."
5. "I looove pink cupcakes. Just call me Summerlicious. You see this? All I have to do is eat too many pink cupcakes, and my feathers will turn pink. Won't that be fun?"
6. "My name? I'm Summertime, but just call me Summertastic. Isn't this fun, everyone?"
7. "Well, well, well, if it isn't my little sister, the great Springshare. Or should I call you not-so great?"
8. "In your dreams. If anyone is busy around here, it's me! My business has been booming, thanks to you. And the point is, I'm going to be taking all of your fans, who are gonna make me a ton of money, with which I will buy a car, in which I will go driving with our entire family."
9. "Here are some of my favorite books and some snacks. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some \_\_\_\_."
10. "How long have you had... this? A sparkly twinkle dress. I used to have one just like this! Now who wants to shake a tail feather?"

## Character Information

### Personality

Proactive, tough, strong, confident, eccentric, compulsive

### Inspiration

* Chirp
* Tweet
* Squawk

### Voiced by

Cassidy Campbell

**Squibble** is another supporting deuteragonist who, despite her tough exterior, has also shown her more creative side in episodes like "The Feelings Are Mutual". She enjoys listening to the musical band Birds of Flight and taking care of everyone she knows.

### Personality

Squibble is generally portrayed as the typical school bully (more so in the earlier episodes and books). She does make a point in later episodes that she has been 're-informed'. Despite this, she has a softer side. She dances, plays trumpets, and loves to find butterflies. She usually keeps these interests private, but the others find out eventually.

In addition to the interests that indicate her softer side, Squibble (despite her reputation as a bully) is shown not to be as tough as she likes to make her friends think she is. For example, in the episode "Profuse and Destroy", it is revealed she has never actually had to fight anyone during all the years she has been considered a bully, as the victims are typically too scared to do so and usually end up running away. Squibble is proven to be brave enough to stand up to Lerridge no matter how much older she is, as shown in "Birdy Squad".

### Appearance

Squibble is a large yellow canary with blue eyes, frilly red boots, pigtailed hair strands, a long orange beak, matching orange legs, and dark yellow spots on her belly.

### Trivia

* She initially appeared in the episode "Opportunities of Wrath", where she begins to speak in the form of chirping sounds, with her first words being her namesake 'squibble-squabble'.
* Some episodes imply that Squibble is capable of changing the color of her feathers (by simply painting over them with a paintbrush), such as blue, and orange with purple details.