Bird

Birds are flying tamable mobs.

Natural generation
Birds spawn on grass blocks at light levels of 9 or more with at least 1 block space above. They often spawn in groups of 2–4 during world generation.

Appearance
Birds come in six different colors: blue, green, black, white, yellow, and red. Each type of bird comes with its own unique song.

Drops
Birds drop 0-2 feathers when killed. This can be increased with the Looting enchantment. They drop 1-3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior


Birds are passive mobs, and tend to hop on the ground instead of walking. They wander and fly arond aimlessly, singing or chirping occasionally. They usually stay out of water, but if in water, they will try to stay afloat by flapping their wings. Birds are attracted to wheat seeds, and will eat any within a few blocks. If the player is harvesting wheat, any birds nearby will fly over to come and eat the seeds. There is a risk to an early harvest if the birds happen to trample on the crops. This can be prevented by having a tamed wolf, cat or other pet sit near the crops to scare the birds off, or building a roof over farms.

Trees
Birds are attracted to and fly around trees; they will search for any nearby leaves and once they find leaves, they will search for any nearby logs. Once logs have been found they will fly towards the top of the tree/structure. Birds will sometimes get stuck under a tree if they are trying to fly on top of it.

Taming
To tame a bird, seeds on the ground and then right-click on the bird after they have eaten the seeds, which will show the naming screen. Taming birds can be difficult to achieve, as it requires patience, and you will need to keep your distance so the bird can eat the seeds.

Picking up
A tamed bird will go on the player's head when the player right-clicks on it. When on the player's head, the player can perform long-distance horizontal jumps (as if they had the Slow Falling effect) and also become immune to fall damage. If the player is riding a horse, wyvern or other mountable mob with a bird on their head, it will gain a massive speed boost and become very difficult to control.

Tamed birds can be healed with seeds, either by dropping seeds at the bird or right-clicking it.

History
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 50%;" !Version

v6.0.0 DEV
- Fixed birds not being afraid of the player.

v5.2.4
- Fixed possible NPE with birds.

v4.5.0
- Tamed birds won't be named every time they eat seeds.

v4.4.0
- Birds can be healed with seeds.

- Rope can be used on tamed birds.

v4.3.1
- You can now name your tamed birds by using an amulet or book.

v4.2.0
- Fixed pet mounting (birds).

v3.6.0
- Increased bird's health.

v3.5.0
- Fixed bird feet thanks to Xotano.

v2.11
- Fixed bug with birds not riding minecarts.

v2.10
- Fixed wrong sound when lifting a tamed bird.

v2.9.4
- You can pick up tamed birds that can help you glide.

v2.8.1
- Fixed bird spawning.

v2.5.3
- Tamed birds will eat seeds again.

v2.5.1
- Fixed wing flipping bug in birds.

v2.3
- Once tamed, birds won't eat seeds (they still will be attracted to seeds).

- Some performance tweaking on the birds (decreases CPU load).

- Other minor tweaks to the birds' AI.

v2.1.1
- Changed the bird's wings.

- Artificially increased spawn rate of birds.

- Made birds tamable.

v2.1
- Added birds.
 * }

Trivia

 * Unlike the vast majority of other mobs, birds don't have hurt or death sounds, though this could be a bug.
 * The six types of birds are modeled after the blue grosbeak, parrot, crow, mourning dove, canary, and cardinal.
 * Birds can be used to glide safely from heights without the risk of falling to your own death.