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Although nothing beats the thrill of listening to a bird’s melodic trill, music that mentions birds can also put a song in your heart! We’ve gathered a flock of birds in music that will make your spirit soar.

Birds in Music, Musicians whose names are a bird and Bands with bird names

Songs about Blackbirds

Blackbird— The Beatles

Bye Bye Blackbird— Eddie Cantor

Songs about Blue Jays

Blue Jay Way— The Beatles

Songs about Bluebirds

Bluebird— Miranda Lambert

(There’s A) Bluebird on Your Windowsill— Doris Day

Bluebirds are Singing— The Country Gentlemen

I Heard The Bluebirds Sing— Marty Robbins

Blue Skies — Doris Day

Somewhere Over the Rainbow— Judy Garland

The White Cliffs of Dover— Vera Lynn

Zip-A_Dee-Doo-Dah— from the soundtrack to Song of the South

Songs about Canaries

Canary in A Coalmine— The Police

Songs about Crows

Crow— Dan Fogelberg

Burn — The Cure from the soundtrack to The Crow

Songs about Doves

The Edge of Seventeen — Stevie Nicks

When Doves Cry— Prince from the Purple Rain soundtrack

Wings of A Dove— Ferlin Husky

Songs about Eagles

Eagle When She Flies— Dolly Parton

The Eagle and The Hawk-– John Denver

Eagles— ABBA

Fly Like An Eagle— The Steve Miller Band

Lady Bird— Nancy Sinatra

On The Wings of An Eagle–John Denver

Songs about Gulls and Albatrosses

Albatross— Judy Collins

Songs about Hummingbirds

Hummingbird— Seals & Crofts

Hummingbird Heartbeat— Katy Perry

Songs about Mockingbirds

Listen To The Mockingbird

Mockingbird— Carly Simon and James Taylor

Songs about Nightingales

Nightingale— Demi Lovato

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square— Vera Lynn

On The Wings of A Nightingale— The Everly Brothers

Songs about Pigeons

Sally’s Pigeons— Cyndi Lauper

Skyline Pigeon— Elton John

Songs about Roadrunners and Cuckoos

The Cuckoo— The old English folk song shares, “The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies/ She brings us glad tidings, and she tells us no lies.”

Roadrunner cartoon theme song — Barbara Cameron, Barenaked Ladies and more

Songs about Robins

Fly, Robin, Fly— The Silver Convention

Rockin’ Robin— Bobby Day

When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along— Al Jolson

Songs about Swallows

Night of The Swallow— Kate Bush

When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano— Glenn Miller, Pat Boone. Even if you can’t make it to California to see the return of the swallows, you can celebrate this annual event with this classic song.

Songs about Sparrows

Baretta’s Theme (Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow)— Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy Cliff

El Condor Pasa (If I Could)–Simon & Garfunkel

His Eye is On The Sparrow— Gospel hymn, sung by such greats as Mahalia Jackson and Whitney Houston

How Shall A Sparrow Fly— Ryan Bingham

Little Sparrow— Dolly Parton

Sparrows Will Sing— Marianne Faithfull

Two Sparrows in a Hurricane— Tanya Tucker

Songs about Vultures

That’s What Friends are For (The Vulture Song)– from the soundtrack of Disney’s The Jungle Book

Vulture– Iggy Pop

Songs about Whipporwills

I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry— Hank Williams

Songs about Woodpeckers

Woodpecker— Chuck Berry

Woody Woodpecker— Kay Kayser and His Orchestra

More Songs About Birds

Here is just a small sampling of the many more tunes which feature our fine-feathered friends in lyrics:

  • And Your Bird Can Sing— The Beatles
  • The Bird— The Time
  • The Birds and The Bees— Jewel Akens
  • Bird Dog— The Everly Brothers
  • Bird on A Wire— Johnny Cash
  • Bird Set Free— Sia
  • Birdie— Avril Lavigne
  • Birds— Coldplay
  • Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)— Icicle Works
  • Black Swan— BTS
  • The Bonny Swans— Loreena McKennitt
  • “Detectorists” theme song— Johnny Flynn
  • Free Bird— Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Feed The Birds— Julie Andrews from the soundtrack to Mary Poppins
  • Flightless Bird, American Mouth— Iron and Wine from the Twilight soundtrack
  • Free As A Bird— The Beatles
  • I’m Like a Bird— Nelly Furtado
  • Little Bird— Ed Sheeran
  • Magpie— The Unthanks
  • May The Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose— Little Jimmy Dickens
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)— The Beatles
  • Pink Flamingos— Tracy Byrd
  • Snowbird— Anne Murray
  • Songbird— Fleetwood Mac
  • Songbird— Kenny G
  • Surfin’ Bird— The Trashmen
  • The Swan— Saint-Saens
  • Three Little Birds— Bob Marley and The Wailers
  • The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room from Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room attraction
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas–No one can forget that partridge in a pear tree!

Bands Named After Birds

  • The Bird and The Bee
  • Birds of Chicago
  • The Black Crowes
  • The Byrds
  • The Chicks
  • Counting Crows
  • The Eagles
  • The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  • The Flamingos
  • A Flock of Seagulls
  • The Housemartins
  • The Jayhawks
  • The Larks
  • The Mockingbirds
  • The Mynah Birds
  • The O’Jays
  • Old Crow Medicine Show
  • Owl City
  • The Orioles
  • The Partridge Family
  • The Penguins
  • The Sandpipers
  • The Yardbirds

Musical Artists with Bird Names

  • Andrew Bird
  • Jade Bird
  • Tracy Byrd
  • Dove Cameron
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Eagle-Eye Cherry
  • Nick Drake
  • Rebecca Pidgeon
  • Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees
  • Gil Scott-Heron
  • Robin Thicke
  • Robin Zander of Cheap Trick
  • Maxine Nightingale
  • Robyn
  • Billy Swan
  • Taylor Swift

A Bit of Bird-Themed Music Trivia

Jazz great Charlie Parker was known both as “Bird” and “Yardbird”!

If you are a fan of Jimmy Buffett, you are known as a “parrot head”! Young music lovers who like the beat of Buffet’s tunes are called “parakeets.”

The Bluebird Cafe is a famous Nashville music venue where such superstars as Vince Gill, Keith Urban and Taylor swift got their start.

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