🐦Bird Emoji
Generally, the 🐦 emoji just means a bird. It’s often used to represent birds literally, like when someone is talking about seeing a bird or wanting to go birdwatching.
The 🐦 emoji is a little bird.
- Unicode
- U+1F426
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bird:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐦 Bird emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Bird emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the bird has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Bird emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :bird:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F426.
How to type the 🐦 Bird emoji
No picker to hand? The bird can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Bird emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Bird emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bird for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐦, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐦 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐦 means in other countries
A generic, friendly emoji for freedom, small talk, or nature; it carries no rude meaning on its own.
Stands for lightness, freedom, or spring — a soft, positive image.
Older reference to the pre-rebrand Twitter logo among longtime users.
Before you send it: No caution needed; it reads as gentle and clean in any tone from formal to casual.
What 🐦 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🐦 vs 🐦⬛ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Bird
Code: U+1F426 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bird:
Generally, the 🐦 emoji just means a bird.
Unicode name: Black Bird
Code: U+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B · added 2022
Shortcode: :black_bird:
The 🐦⬛ emoji represents a black bird, typically a crow or raven.
Where the 🐦 Bird emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F426 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐦 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E74F, KDDI au E4E0, SoftBank E521.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Bird was approved as U+1F426 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐦 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.