Bird Emojis
21 emojis tagged bird in the official Unicode CLDR project. Click any emoji for its meaning, copy-paste, and per-platform rendering.
Bird emojis cover the avian world from common backyard species to exotic wildlife. The set includes 🦃 turkey, 🐔 chicken, 🐓 rooster, 🐣 hatching chick, 🐤 baby chick, 🐦 bird (the generic small songbird), 🐧 penguin, 🦅 eagle, 🦆 duck, 🦢 swan, 🦉 owl, 🦚 peacock, 🦜 parrot, 🐥 front-facing baby chick, and more recent additions like 🦩 flamingo and 🪿 goose. People use them in birdwatching posts, Thanksgiving content (🦃), Twitter/X meta-references (🐦), and animal puns. The chick sequence 🐣🐤🐥 is widely used as a "things are hatching" or "new beginnings" motif.
Frequently asked about bird emojis
Why does Twitter use a bird emoji?
Twitter's logo was a stylized bluebird (originally named Larry) from 2010 to 2023. The 🐦 bird emoji became shorthand for the platform itself in tweets and discussions. After Elon Musk renamed Twitter to X in 2023, ❌ and 𝕏 partially replaced it, but 🐦 still works as a reference.
Are there separate emojis for male and female birds?
Only for chickens — 🐔 chicken and 🐓 rooster were originally meant as a gendered pair (hen/rooster), though many platforms now render 🐔 as gender-neutral. All other bird emojis are species-only without gendered variants.
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