Bird Emoji

Animals

A side-profile illustration of a small blue bird, typically depicted with a light-colored chest, a yellow beak, and an orange wing. It resembles common garden songbirds like a sparrow or a bluebird.

Usage Context

Used to talk about nature, flight, or the arrival of spring. Because of the common association with the social media platform Twitter, it is frequently used to reference posting updates, sharing thoughts, or linking to a specific social media account. It is often paired with the 🐣 or 🕊️ emojis when discussing wildlife or themes of freedom.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the bird emoji was popularized as part of the initial wave of animal icons designed to make mobile messaging more expressive. Its design evolved from early, simplified pixel art icons found on Japanese flip phones into the more detailed, colorful graphic seen on modern touch-screen devices today.

Details

Glyph

🐦

Unicode

U+1F426

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f426:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC26;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bird

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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