A Dictionary of Birds in Shakespeare (arranged alphabetically)
An Index to Birds in Shakespeare (arranged by plays and poems)
An Index to Bird names (with cross-references)
A Dictionary of Birds in Shakespeare
(arranged alphabetically)
Nb. of occurrences |
"Bird species" as they are most often cited by Shakespeare |
Proposed identification |
| 1 | Barnacles | Barnacle Goose |
| 1 | Bunting | Corn Bunting |
| 4 | Buzzard | Buzzard |
| 16 | Chough | Chough |
| 31 | Cock | domesticated Bankiva Cock |
| 4 | Cormorant | Cormorant |
| 38 | Crow | Crow |
| 22 | Cuckoo | Cuckoo |
| 8 | Daw | Jackdaw |
| 1 | Dive-Dapper | Little Grebe |
| 60 | Dove | Turtle Dove |
| 11 | Duck | any Anatidae, prob. the Mallard |
| 40 | Eagle | Golden Eagle or White-tailed Eagle |
| 2 | Estridge | Goshawk |
| 1 | Eyas-musket | young male Sparrowhawk |
| 2 | Finch | any Fringillidae, prob. the Chaffinch |
| 44 | Goose | Greylag Goose or its domesticated variation |
| 3 | Griffin | the mythical winged beast or the White-tailed Eagle |
| 1 | Guinea-hen | female of the domesticated variation of the Wild Guinea-fowl |
| 10 | Gull | any Laridae, more probably any unfledged bird |
| 2 | Halcyon | Kingfisher |
| 1 | Handsaw | Grey Heron |
| 3 | Harpy | the mythical winged ceature |
| 35 | Hawk and Falcon | Accipitridae and Falconidae |
| 3 | Hedge-Sparrow | Dunnock |
| 5 | Jay | Jay |
| 18 | Kite | Kite |
| 4 | Lapwing | Lapwing |
| 29 | Lark | Sky Lark |
| 1 | Loon | any Diver or the great-crested Grebe |
| 2 | Martlet | House Martin |
| 30 | Nightingale | Nightingale |
| 2 | Night-Raven | Bittern |
| 2 | Osprey | Osprey |
| 1 | Ostrich | Ostrich |
| 2 | Ousel | Blackbird |
| 36 | Owl | any Strigidae, and the Barn Owl |
| 11 | Parrot | possibly the Ring-necked Parakeet |
| 2 | Partridge | Grey Partridge |
| 6 | Peacock | Peacock |
| 3 | Pelican | White Pelican or Dalmatian Pelican |
| 2 | Pheasant | Pheasant |
| 21 | Phoenix | the mythical bird |
| 5 | Pie | Magpie |
| 15 | Pigeon | Feral Pigeon |
| 2 | Quails | Quail |
| 31 | Raven | Raven |
| 8 | Rook | Rook |
| 3 | Ruddock | Robin |
| 1 | Scamels | probably the Bermuda Petrel |
| 1 | Snipe | Snipe |
| 12 | Sparrow | Sparrow |
| 1 | Staniel | Kestrel |
| 1 | Starling | Starling |
| 7 | Swallow | Swallow |
| 17 | Swan | Mute Swan |
| 2 | Tercel | male Peregrine |
| 3 | Throstel | Song Thrush |
| 5 | Turkey | domesticated Wild Turkey |
| 8 | Vulture | possibly the White-tailed Eagle |
| 1 | Wagtail | Grey Wagtail or Pied Wagtail |
| 10 | Woodcock | Woodstock |
| 10 | Wren | Wren |
| 1 | Wry-neck'd | Wryneck |