Top 40 Songs About Birds

The Best Pop & Rock Songs About Flying Birds: It's not a mystery why birds are a popular topic in pop and rock songs. Birds are sweet and beautiful, and their flight is an object of envy, often the inspiration for ballads. Birds of a feather seem to flock together, as 8 Bird songs made it to #1, and dozens more were top Billboard hits. Not all the best songs charted high, and our pick for worst bird song actually did top the charts. Top2040 has culled the best of the bird song hits. Here are the top 40 songs about birds:

1 – And Your Bird Can Sing by the Beatles, the favorite song about a bird.

2 – Songbird by Fleetwood Mac, written by Christine McVie, from the incredible Rumours LP

3 – Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, the most overplayed live song of the 70s, but it still holds up

4 – Fly like an Eagle by Stever Miller Band

5 – High Flying Bird (1973) by Elton John

6 – The Raven (1987) by Alan Parsons Project

7 – Birds (1970) by Neil Young

8 – Spread Your Wings (1977) by Queen, from the album “News of the World”

9 – Sparrow on the Schoolyard Wall (1991) by Jethro Tull

10 – Learning to Fly (1987) by Pink Floyd

11 – Nightbird by Stevie Nicks, along with Edge of Seventeen (just like the white-winged Dove) hits from 
her solo albums.

12 – Fly, Robin, Fly (1975) by Silver Convention, a disco one hit wonder.

13 – Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel) by Kansas, from their third LP.

14 – High Flying Bird (1969) by Jefferson Airplane

15 – When Doves Cry, a smash #1 hit by Prince & the Revolution in 1984, the old MTV years.

16 – Time for Me to Fly by REO Speedwagon,who also recorded “Flying Turkey Trot.”

17 – Silver Bird (1976) by the Guess Who

18-- Mockingbird performed by Carley Simon & James Taylor, written by Carole King

19 – Hummingbird (1972) by Bob Seger

20 – Bluebird by Paul McCartney & Wings

21 – Blackbird by the Beatles

22 – Piano Bird (1972) by the Doors

23 – Wounded Bird (1971) by Graham Nash

24 – Hummingbird by Seals & Crofts

25 – Crow, the Owl, & the Dove (2011) by Nightwish, symphonic metal band

26 – Wind Beneath My Wings (1989) recorded by Bette Midler

27 – Fly Away (1977) by Bread

28 – Broken Wings (1985) by Mr. Mister

29 – Ostrich (1964) by the Primitives with Lou Reed and John Cale of the Velvet Underground

30 – Parrots & Peroxide by Jackie Martling

31 – Rockin' Robin recorded by the Hollies in 1964

32 – Lonesome Crow (1972) Scorpions

33 – Chicken (1994) by Toad the Wet Sprocket

34 – An Owl Song (1969) by Canned Heat

35 – Hummingbird Heartbeat (2010) by Katy Perry

36 – Bye Bye Bird from the Yardbirds, we saw that one coming...

37 – When the Eagle Flies by Traffic

38 – Bird by American Breed (1968)

39 – Tiny Sparrow (1962) by Peter, Paul & Mary

40 – Little Dove (1989) by Faster Pussycat, even the hair metal bands liked birds.

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Worst bird song ever: Disco Duck by Rick Dees which went to Billboard #1 in disco-ball days of 1977. Shouldn't there have been at least one bird song by the Eagles? Toucan even sing along. Pun intended.