Birds

Middle-earth was home to myriads of birds, small Birds as well as great birds, including songbirds such as cuckoos, crakes, wrens, crows, shrikes and sparrows, as well as birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures, owls and harriers, and numerous other kinds of ducks, geese, swans and screamers, pheasants, grouse, fowl, gulls, storks, cranes, doves, pigeons and kingfishers.

The more famous kinds of birds in Middle-earth included:

• the bussards of rhovanion
• the chamber birds
• the Crebain
• the gloombirds
• the gorcrows
• the Great Eagles
• the great swans
• the kirinki
• the mistravens
• the ravens of the north
• the strider birds
• the thrushes
• the tinuviel

Birds of Renown

Fisher Blue the King’s fisher Willow-wren the Little Bird