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.
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.
Pin it to remember these Birds in Music!
