Question: what kind of birds were heckle and jekyll
Answer: The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow - billed magpies ; and both were voiced at different times by Sid Raymond ( 1946 -- 47 ) , Ned Sparks ( 1947 -- 51 ) , Roy Halee ( 1951 -- 61 ) , Dayton Allen ( 1956 -- 66 ) and Frank Welker ( 1979 -- 81 ) .