With the addition of the 🐦‍🔥 emoji in Unicode v15.1, it occurred to me that Unicode has a lot of birds.

This post contains a history of every bird added to the unicode spec. And to answer the age old question, which came first the 🐔 or the 🥚, the chicken was added in Unicode v6.0, but the egg wasn't added until v9.0.

Standard Bird Emoji

• [1F413] 🐓 - Rooster (v6.0)
• [1F414] 🐔 - Chicken (v6.0)
• [1F423] 🐣 - Hatching chick (v6.0)
• [1F424] 🐤 - Baby chick (v6.0)
• [1F425] 🐥 - Front-facing baby chick (v6.0)
• [1F426] 🐦 - Bird (v6.0)
• [1F427] 🐧 - Penguin (v6.0)
• [1F54A] 🕊️ - Dove of peace (v7.0)
• [1F983] 🦃 - Turkey (v8.0)
• [1F985] 🦅 - Eagle (v9.0)
• [1F986] 🦆 - Duck (v9.0)
• [1F989] 🦉 - Owl (v9.0)
• [1F99A] 🦚 - Peacock (v11.0)
• [1F99C] 🦜 - Parrot (v11.0)
• [1F9A2] 🦢 - Swan (v11.0)
• [1F9A4] 🦤 - Dodo (v13.0)
• [1F9A9] 🦩 - Flamingo (v12.0)
• [1FABF] 🪿 - Goose (v15.0)

Modified Bird Emoji

This list has customizations of bird emoji that can be done using the 200D Zero Width Joiner.

• [1F426 200D 2B1B] 🐦‍⬛ - Black bird (v15.0)
• [1F426 200D 1F525] 🐦‍🔥 - Phoenix (v15.1)

Bird Adjacent Emoji

• [1F357] 🍗 - Poultry leg (v6.0)
• [1F595] 🖕 - Middle finger (v7.0)
• [1F3F8] 🏸 - Badminton (v8.0)
• [1F95A] 🥚 - Egg (v9.0)
• [1FAB6] 🪶 - Feather (v13.0)
• [1FAB9] 🪹 - Empty nest (v14.0)
• [1FABA] 🪺 - Nest with eggs (v14.0)
• [1FABD] 🪽 - Wing (v15.0)

Bird Flag Emoji

• 🇦🇱 - [AL] Albania (Eagle)
• 🇦🇸 - [AS] American Samoa (Eagle)
• 🇧🇱 - [BL] St. Barthélemy (Pelican)
• 🇨🇽 - [CX] Christmas Island (Tropicbird)
• 🇩🇲 - [DM] Dominica (Parrot)
• 🇪🇨 - [EC] Ecuador (Condor)
• 🇪🇬 - [EG] Egypt (Eagle)
• 🇫🇯 - [FJ] Fiji (Dove)
• 🇬🇸 - [GS] South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (Penguin)
• 🇬🇹 - [GT] Guatemala (Quetzal)
• 🇰🇮 - [KI] Kiribati (Frigatebird)
• 🇰🇿 - [KZ] Kazakhstan (Eagle)
• 🇲🇩 - [MD] Moldova (Eagle)
• 🇲🇪 - [ME] Montenegro (Eagle)
• 🇲🇽 - [MX] Mexico (Eagle)
• 🇵🇬 - [PG] Papua New Guinea (Bird of paradise)
• 🇷🇸 - [RS] Serbia (Eagle)
• 🇸🇭 - [SH] St. Helena (Plover)
• 🇸🇽 - [SX] Sint Maarten (Pelican)
• 🇹🇦 - [TA] Tristan da Cunha (Albatross)
• 🇺🇬 - [UG] Uganda (Crane)
• 🇻🇮 - [VI] U.S. Virgin Islands (Eagle)
• 🇿🇲 - [ZM] Zambia (Eagle)
• 🇿🇼 - [ZW] Zimbabwe (Bateleur)

Egyptian Bird Hieroglyphs

Other Unicode Birds