Folk Songs About Birds

Thanks to Gus Garelick for many of these.

Turkey in the Straw (trad)
The Cuckoo (trad)
Shoot that turkey buzzard  (John Hartford)
Turkey in the Pea Patch
Crow Black Chicken  (New Lost City Ramblers)
Redbird (Byron Berline)
The Grey Eagle (Berline, et al.)
The Blackest Crow
White Dove (Stanley Brothers)
La Paloma (anybody)
White Bird (It's a Beautiful Day)
When the Nightbird Sings (Laurie Lewis)
The Mockingbird (anybody)
The Hot Canary (Florin Zabach)
Lark in the Morning Jig
Pigeon at the Gate
Peacock Rag (Arthur Smith)
Cuckoo's Nest
When it's time for the Whippoorwill to Sing (Delmore Bros.)
The Great Speckled Bird (Roy Acuff)
Campagnola Reginella (the woodpecker)  (any Italian band)
The Lark (any Hungarian band)
Strange Meadowlark (Dave Brubeck)
Birdland (Manhattan Transfer)
Meg Hutchinson\ Whole Bird\ Come Up Full\ Red House
Lui Collins\ Red Red Robin\ Closer\ Waterbug
The Volo Bogtrotters\ Riley's Hen House\ Old Time String Band with Vocal Accompaniment\ Marimac
Heather Berry\ To A Dove\ To A Dove\ Blue Circle
The Lonesome Sisters w/Rayna Gellert\ Blackbird\ Follow Me Down\ Tin Halo
Laurie Lewis - Birdsong - whole album
Mary McCaslin\ Blackbird\ Old Friends\ Philo
Lui Collins\ Red Red Robin\ Closer\ Waterbug
The Beatles\ Blackbird\ White Album\ Apple
John Prine\ Crazy as a Loon\ Fair & Square\ Oh Boy

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann