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All Flyers Are Birds
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Birds are the animals most associated with flight. Because of this, any flying creatures—fictional or real—are often given traits like birds. Building nests, singing songs, pecking holes, and so on. Although birds are the most numerous of all flying vertebrates in terms of sheer number of species, they are only one group of the numerous creatures that take to the skies. Insects and bats are generally excluded from the All Flyers Are Birds trope, since they still live with us and we know their behavior like it's nothing, but prehistoric and fantasy creatures are still at risk. If you come across anything non-sapient with wings, expect it to perch on a tree at some point or another, or worse yet, tweet in a bird-like fashion. This may be acceptable in fantasy animals because they are, of course, original creations/species and you can do whatever the hell you want with them, but it's probably not as good an idea to apply this trope to species that really existed (or even worse, species that still do.) This is a subtrope of All Animals Are Domesticated, and is essentially the airborne version of All Animals Are Dogs. Can also overlap with Fantastic Fauna Counterpart, if non-avian flyers are treated as the setting's equivalent of birds. For specific examples related to prehistoric life, see Terror-dactyl and Raptor Attack (for the case of Archaeopteryx and other early birds). If they're actually called a bird, it overlaps with Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit". For examples of birds themselves being treated badly, see Artistic License – Ornithology. Examples |
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Dino Ranch's baby Pteranodon Pteddy acts as the farm's rooster, crowing at sunrise to wake everyone up. He even walks around on two legs like a bird rather than on all fours like real pterosaurs did. | |
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Jurassic World: Played with. The Pteranodon have grasping talons and jump to launch rather than vaulting with their wings. They also dive like gannets, but this quality is actually accurate to what real Pteranodons were capable of (indeed, it's believed to have been their main hunting method). | |
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One of the creatures in Evolution (2001) that terrorizes a mall was a scaly, lizardlike creature with bat-like wings, a total of six limbs like a traditional European dragon, and gave birth by vomitting out young. The film's protagonists, oddly, refer to the creature as a "bird". | |
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The Andy Griffith Show: Barney believes bats lay eggs. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: A fair few of the Mix-and-Match Critters are partially based on birds, and so have bird-like mannerisms. The ostrich-horses are an exception, though, because their behavior is a lot more equine. | |
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Jurassic Park III: The Pteranodon nest in a very bird-like way, although the current paleontological evidence certainly says otherwise. | |
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Tales of Symphonia: Occurs only in writing, where, presumably for simplicity, creatures such as bats are classified as birds in the bestiary. | |
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Rodan's incarnation in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) makes him decidedly more avian in mannerisms and behavior, with a much more vulture-like head, grasping talons and a bipedal stance and launch. Once again, feathers were considered in concept art, but ultimately were scrapped. | |
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Animorphs: Ax describes the six-winged kafit as one of three "bird" species on the Andalite homeworld. | |
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Walking with Dinosaurs: Anurognathus appear as a symbiote of Diplodocus, intentionally following it and feeding on the insects living on its skin in the manner of modern birds like oxpeckers and cattle egrets. There is no basis for this, and in fact Diplodocus and Anurognathus lived in different continents (although a close relative of Anurognathus, Mesadactylus, did live in the same place as Diplodocus). Research done since the release of Walking With Dinosaurs suggests that Anurognathus was nocturnal and caught insects while flying. Interestingly, that's still an example of this trope, as the same behavior is exhibited by modern birds like the nightjar. | |
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Pokémon: A lot of Flying-type Pokémon that have a bird-like body shape behave in a sort of avian fashion. Aerodactyl, for example, is often seen standing on two legs and carrying things in its talons like a bird of prey. A few bird Pokemon invert this trope, though, such as the flightless Doduo and Dodrio. Even the Zubat family can learn moves named for or associated with birds, such as Brave Bird and Sky Attack (in Japanese: "Godbird"). Woobat, however, averts this. The animation for Wing Attack shows feathers flying after the opponent is struck, even though Pokemon that can learn this attack include those that are based on bats, pterosaurs, dragons, dragonflies, mantises, manta rays... The logic behind Flying-types being strong against Bug-types seems to be "birds eat bugs". That said, this can still be justified with creatures like Zubat, Aerodactyl and Scyther as there are indeed species of bats, pterosaurs and flying insects that eat bugs as well (though a pterosaur as large as Aerodactyl would probably prefer more substantial prey). Less justified when you consider that the aforementioned dragons and manta rays share this advantage. Inverted with Lugia who is supposed to be some sort of bird-monster, but looks more like a dragon and doesn't act very bird-like at all (It sleeps in a cave at the bottom of the ocean rather than in a nest). Even the games point this out. It appears that the Flying type was originally going to be called Bird, and all bird-based Pokemon in Generation 1 were classified in it, whether they could fly or not. The reason Psyduck isn't is because it isn't based on a duck, but on a platypus. This is also why moves based on wind, such as Gust, Whirlwind, and Razor Wind, were all considered Normal-type, when future generations would put wind-based moves such as Air Slash and Hurricane under Flying (and reclassify Gust appropriately). Nearly every Flying-type move in the first generation has a bird-related Japanese name, as well—for instance, Mirror Move was originally named Parrot Mimicry, and Sky Attack was God Bird. Altaria is a inversion of this trope. It's a bird, but it's a Dragon type. When it mega evolves, it becomes Dragon/Fairy, while still remaining a bird. All that changes is it get more clouds and its tail grows longer. |
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The Bible: Leviticus 11:13-19 says that bats are birds. The original Hebrew word pretty much means "flying things" rather than specifically birds, but the King James Translation didn't get the memo. Locusts are classified as "fowl" for the purposes of determining what animals are permissible to eat - they fly, after all, they migrate, and if locusts eat all the crops what are you going to eat but the locusts? |
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Mortasheen actually inverts this trope. Most of the birdlike monsters there don't behave like real birds at all, and the one monster that is claimed to actually make a bird-like song doesn't even look like a bird at all! | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The ratbirds tend to behave like actual birds, though with some rat-like tendencies, despite being simply rats with wings. | |
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The Eternal Cylinder has the Onkifurt: a bizarre-looking Living Gasbag Starfish Alien with a gaseous sac, a vaguely pig-like snout and two tentacles. Despite looking nothing at all like a bird, it seems to behave a lot like one, brooding its eggs in a nest, hunting prey by dropping on them from above, and displaying sexual dimorphism like many birds whereas males are more colorful than females. | |
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Rodan: In many of his appearances, Rodan exhibits several examples. He perches like a bird, builds a nest, lays outsized eggs, and grasps things (such as dolphins) in his talons. Considering Rodan is a fictional movie monster, the filmmakers weren't likely going for realism. Early concept art of Rodan went the extra mile and gave him feathers◊. Granted, at least some of these images also bear some resemblance to early artistic renditions of Archaeopteryx so it's possible that Rodan wasn't always intended to be a pterosaur. Rodan's incarnation in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) makes him decidedly more avian in mannerisms and behavior, with a much more vulture-like head, grasping talons and a bipedal stance and launch. Once again, feathers were considered in concept art, but ultimately were scrapped. |
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In How to Train Your Dragon, the Deadly Nadder is the most bird-like of all dragons. It walks on two legs in a rather bird-like or dinosaur-like manner, preens its scales, makes bird-like squawks and warbles on occasion, and turns its head to the side when it looks at you, in a rather similar fashion to the songbirds who hunt worms in your everyday garden. Averted by other dragons, though. Toothless in particular incorporates behaviors of big cats and horses. | |
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Jurassic Park: Jurassic Park III: The Pteranodon nest in a very bird-like way, although the current paleontological evidence certainly says otherwise. Jurassic World: Played with. The Pteranodon have grasping talons and jump to launch rather than vaulting with their wings. They also dive like gannets, but this quality is actually accurate to what real Pteranodons were capable of (indeed, it's believed to have been their main hunting method). |
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In The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a pterodactyl bores through wood like a woodpecker. | |
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One Million Years B.C. has pterosaurs with eagle-like talons. Again, the Pteranodon also has a bird-like nest, complete with oversized Pteranodon babies. | |
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! has "pterodactyls" that look like birds, grasp like birds, and make hawk-like noises. | |
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Primeval: The Anurognathus perch in the trees like birds do. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Done in-universe. Willie Scott, an extremely naïve Midwesterner who has apparently never been anywhere else other than Shanghai (where she performs her nightclub act), is riding an elephant through the Indian forest with Indiana and Short Round. She points out some "big birds" flying overhead — and Indy informs her that those aren't "big birds", but giant bats. | |
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