Bird

Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.

Shortcode: :bird:
Unicode: U+1F426
HTML: 🐦
CSS: \1F426
JavaScript: "\u{1F426}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%A6

What 🐦 means

A small bird in generic form. It means birds, birdsong and flight, and it often stood for Twitter, whose logo was a blue bird.

"A little bird told me" makes it a playful hint about gossip or a source you will not name. Bird watchers and early risers use it too.

For a crow or raven, there is 🐦‍⬛; for a pigeon-like symbol of peace, there is 🕊️.

Facts

Bird 🐦 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bird. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bird:. People also look for it with words like “animal” or “ornithology”.