Here is a collection of bird puns, ornithology jokes and wordplay relating to our feathered friends.

From names of people that sound like birds through eggcellent quips there should be something for bird pun fans to peck away at.

You may be pheasantly surprised and eaglelly anticipating. 

Time to get on with it before you start twitching.

​Here are the puns.

​​1920s bird - flapper
believed a seagull - gullible
bird puns are my raven d'etre

​bought girlfriend a tiny bird as a small toucan of appreciation
busy bird - frequent flyer
cheating bird - fowl play

chicken Man superhero - "Faster than a speeding pullet"
crow with style - cawsome
deaf bird needs a heron aid

​distant relative - migrate aunt
​divorced bird watcher - seven year twitch
Egrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention

Egyptian owl - Hootankhamun
excited bird watcher - hornithologist
​fast bird - Mo Sparrow

forgot the words - humming bird
holiday in the Canary Islands or Turkey
​hungry bird - peckish

​nothing succeeds (sucks seeds) like a budgie
ornithology film was a turkey
​out of breath - puffin​

parrot drying out - polyunsaturated
pestering bird - harrier
quick drink - swallow a swift one

seagull thief pleaded "not gullty"
​that sick falcon is almost ill eagle
the ooh-aah bird lays square eggs

Trump supporting crow - MAGApie​​​
where birds hang out - crow bar

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - appreciate what you have
as the crow flies - straight line between two points
bird brain - a fool

birds of a feather flock together - flocks of birds tend to contain a single species
Black Swan - an unpredictable event, often in business or banking terms
budgie smugglers - tight swimming trunks

chickens come home to roost - when the results of your actions become apparent
crow's feet - lines around the eyes
dead as a dodo - can't get much deader than that

early bird catches the worm - successful people get up and get on with the day
empty nester - kids left home
​feather your nest - make yourself rich in a not entirely honest way

get your ducks in a row - get organized
give someone the bird - raise middle finger in a rude gesture - also flip the bird
if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck - it is probably a duck
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kill two birds with one stone - achieve more than one thing with a single action
one swallow does not a summer make - one thing doesn't mean everything will fall into place
parrot fashion - to repeat without learning

​turkeys voting for Xmas - any foolish idea
water off a duck's back - shrug it off

Birdman - Michael Keaton film
The Birds - Hitchcock classic horror
Chicken Run - animation

​Duck Soup - Marx Brothers
The Eagle Has Landed - WWII film with Michael Caine
Happy Feet - tap-dancing penguin

​Kes - falconry boy
Lord of the Wings - Frodo flies on an eagle
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, Jack Nicholson​

​Wild Geese - Richard Burton and Roger Moore

Big Bird - Sesame Street character
Birdman of Alcatraz - famous prisoner
Russell Crowe - actor
Sir Francis Drake - sailor

Eddie the Eagle - British ski jumper
Ethan Hawke - actor
Robin Hood - gave to the poor
Florence Nightingale - nurse

Alan Partridge - comedy character
Gregory Peck - actor
Walter Pidgeon - actor
Steven Seagull - actor

​Jack Sparrow - Parrots of the Caribbean
Clarice Starling - Silence of the Lambs
​Taylor Swift - singer
Sir Christopher Wren - architect

eBird - secondhand bargains
FlockBook - keep up with the flock
Nestflix - roosting movie time

​OnlyFlaps - for bird fans
Peckedit - Reddit for birds
SnapChick - pics with amusing captions

​Swoopify - music on the wing
Wingipedia - all you need to know
YouTwit - video for bird-brains

Blackbird - Paul McCartney
Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
​Surfin' Bird - Bird is the Word - Trashmen 1963
​The Birdie Song - novelty hit

A few handy words for making bird puns

beak, bird, chick, egg, feather, flap, flock, fly, migrate, nest, peck, roost, soar, swoop, wing