Bird Emoji 🐦

What 🐦 means

This bird is shown in side profile, with big almond-shaped eyes, a greyish beak, and a blue-tinted body. Its colors and exact build shift a fair bit from platform to platform.

The 🐦 Bird emoji refers to any bird species; it acts as a generic umbrella emoji for all kinds of birds. It suggests aviary, nature, bliss, and a sense of being free and believing that you can fly (did you hear it too?).

How and when to use it

• If you're sharing pictures or videos of birds, nests, habitats, or anything bird-related, you can use 🐦 in that caption.
• Are you sharing pictures of some birds that you came across on your way to work? Or from a zoo? (sad, but true). Or are you sharing pictures of your own birdies? Then, use 🐦 in all such contexts.
• If you're a bird lover, or if you're into bird conservatory, or you strongly believe a bird to be your spirit animal, any such themes, you can use 🐦 in your social media profile name.
• Besides, 🐦 can also symbolize a smart way of shutting someone up; it can be a beautiful replacement to the 🖕 Middle Finger emoji aka flippin' the bird.
• Use 🐦 while sharing funny content that are related to birds, memes, bird quarrels, birdies in love, etc.
• If you're into bird photography, you can use 🐦 in your social media profile name (among other indicative emojis). You can also use this emoji while sharing the images of birds that are not really available in the emoji world for now.

Other Names

• 🐦 Fowl
• 🐦 Birdie
• 🐦 Avifauna
• 🐦 Flipping the Bird
• 🐦 Birdie (the singer)
• 🐦 Aviary
• 🐦 Feathered Creature
• 🐦 Birdman
• 🐦 Twitter Bird

The lowdown

Category

Animals & Nature › animal-bird

Codepoints

U+1F426

Emoji version

Emoji 0.6

Shortcodes

:bird:

Keywords

animal, bird, ornithology

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.

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