Bird omens:
- When the swallows fly high, it will be dry.
- 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.
- Birds (on the right or rising up) a good sign.
- Canary (singing) happiness.
- Dove brings peace and happiness to wear it appears.
- Hawk brings messages of victory over circumstances.
- Hummingbird foretells love or improved relationship.
- Robin foretells of visitors and good fortune.
- Sparrow brings domestic tranquility.
- If a bird taps on a window or flies into a house, it is a message of death, especially if the bird is white.
- It is considered unlucky to have wall paper with birds on it.
- 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.
- If a bird uses some of your hair to make a nest, you will have a headache.
- Depending on the culture two blackbirds sitting on a window sill or doorstop are either bad or good omens.
- At a cock-crow all evil spirits and ghosts have to return to the underworld.
- If a cock crows outside the back door, a stranger is coming.
- A cock crowing as you leave for work means a good day.
- If a cock stays on the roost, rain is coming.
- A cock crowing wakes you in the morning good luck will follow.
- White cocks are considered lucky, black cocks are said to work with the devil.
- One crow means anger/bad luck.
- Two crows in mirth.
- Three crows is a wedding.
- Four crows a birth.
- Five crows is heaven.
- Six crows is danger.
- Seven crows is evil incarnate.
- 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.
- Crows or ravens gathering in trees in the dark, but never really settling are souls in purgatory.
- If a dove calls repeatedly from a certain direction, you will move some place in that direction.
- If a dove calls near a mine shaft, miners wont go down as they believe there will be a disaster.
- A pillow made of pigeon feathers will prolong the life of a dying person.
- Rubbing a bald head with goose dung will make your hair grow. (Apply at own risk).
- Eating goose on September 29 will insure that you never lack money to pay bills.
- Hawks are a symbol of good luck
- Shooting a Heron is bad luck.
- If one of a caged pair of love birds dies, the other will not live long.
- You must lift your hat to a magpie or bow to him, else evil will follow you.
- The owl is a messenger or a guide in spiritual matters when you see one.
- If you look into an owls nest, you will be unhappy the rest of your life.
- If a pregnant woman hears an owl, the child will be a girl.
- If an owl hoots around a house, an unmarried girl has lost her virginity.
- To bring a peacock feather into the house is to bring in illness and death.
- To have live peacocks in your yard will bring protection.
- To have a white peacock will bring good luck.
- Croaking of a raven over a house means bad luck is coming.
- To kill a raven is bad luck.
- To hear a raven call before deer hunting will bring good luck.
- If you kill a robin a large lump will grow on your hand.
- 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.
- To kill a seagull is to court bad luck for the rest of your sailing career.
- Killing a sparrow will bring evil upon you.
- Never catch or cage a sparrow or you be unlucky.
- If a sparrow builds a nest on your house, you are blessed.
- If a woman steps on a swallows egg, she will be barren.
- The swan sings at its own death.
- If three swans fly together it means a national disaster.
- A nail will not stay in any tree where a woodpecker builds it's nest.
- If you kill a wren or destroy it's nest you will break a bone soon.
- Wren feathers will keep you from drowning.

