Bird omens:

  1. When the swallows fly high, it will be dry.
  2. When observing a bird anting (rubbing ants on it's feathers) it may indicate we need to cleanse ourselves or some aspects of our life from parasites or parasitic activities around us.
  3. Birds (on the right or rising up) a good sign.
  4. Canary (singing) happiness.
  5. Dove brings peace and happiness to wear it appears.
  6. Hawk brings messages of victory over circumstances.
  7. Hummingbird foretells love or improved relationship.
  8. Robin foretells of visitors and good fortune.
  9. Sparrow brings domestic tranquility.
  10. If a bird taps on a window or flies into a house, it is a message of death, especially if the bird is white.
  11. It is considered unlucky to have wall paper with birds on it.
  12. If you start a journey an flock of birds flies on your right, it is lucky if they fly on your left, post pone the journey or it will go badly.
  13. If a bird uses some of your hair to make a nest, you will have a headache.
  14. Depending on the culture two blackbirds sitting on a window sill or doorstop are either bad or good omens.
  15. At a cock-crow all evil spirits and ghosts have to return to the underworld.
  16. If a cock crows outside the back door, a stranger is coming.
  17. A cock crowing as you leave for work means a good day.
  18. If a cock stays on the roost, rain is coming.
  19. A cock crowing wakes you in the morning good luck will  follow.
  20. White cocks are considered lucky, black cocks are said to work with the devil.
  21. One crow means anger/bad luck.
  22. Two crows in mirth.
  23. Three crows is a wedding.
  24. Four crows a birth.
  25. Five crows is heaven.
  26. Six crows is danger.
  27. Seven crows is evil incarnate.
  28. If a crow makes a hoarse, hollow sound, it means bad weather is coming. If a crow calls three times as it flies over a house someone in the house will die.
  29. Crows or ravens gathering in trees in the dark, but never really settling are souls in purgatory.
  30. If a dove calls repeatedly from a certain direction, you will move some place in that direction.
  31. If a dove calls near a mine shaft, miners wont go down as they believe there will be a disaster.
  32. A pillow made of pigeon feathers will prolong the life of a dying person.
  33. Rubbing a bald head with goose dung will make your hair grow. (Apply at own risk).
  34. Eating goose on September 29 will insure that you never lack money to pay bills.
  35. Hawks are a symbol of good luck
  36. Shooting a Heron is bad luck.
  37. If one of a caged pair of love birds dies, the other will not live long.
  38. You must lift your hat to a magpie or bow to him, else evil will follow you.
  39. The owl is a messenger or a guide in spiritual matters when you see one.
  40. If you look into an owls nest, you will be unhappy the rest of your life.
  41. If a pregnant woman hears an owl, the child will be a girl.
  42. If an owl hoots around a house, an unmarried girl has lost her virginity.
  43. To bring a peacock feather into the house is to bring in illness and death.
  44. To have live peacocks in your yard will bring protection.
  45. To have a white peacock will bring good luck.
  46. Croaking of a raven over a house means bad luck is coming.
  47. To kill a raven is bad luck.
  48. To hear a raven call before deer hunting will bring good luck.
  49. If you kill a robin a large lump will grow on your hand.
  50. When you see the first robin of the year, make a wish before it flies away. Then you will have good luck for the next twelve months.
  51. To kill a seagull is to court bad luck for the rest of your sailing career.
  52. Killing a sparrow will bring evil upon you.
  53. Never catch or cage a sparrow or you be unlucky.
  54. If a sparrow builds a nest on your house, you are blessed.
  55. If a woman steps on a swallows egg, she will be barren.
  56. The swan sings at its own death.
  57. If three swans fly together it means a national disaster.
  58. A nail will not stay in any tree where a woodpecker builds it's nest.
  59. If you kill a wren or destroy it's nest you will break a bone soon.
  60. Wren feathers will keep you from drowning.