The internet's only bird emoticon

A search on google for "bird emoticon" yields nothing good. So here is the internet's first bird emoticon:
~*~
the asterick makes it look like it's a bug, let's try this:
~8~
Not bad. Kinda looks more like a bee there. how about this:
-*-
That's too abstract, maybe some more motion in its wings:
\*/
hmm, that doesn't look like a bird. Try this bird face:
:^
or maybe this jumbo bird in flight:
-^ó–ó^-
or a sideways flying bird:
}
That } looks like the type of birds we'd make in grade school, except you'd draw the shape so it goes horizontal, not vertical. Maybe a simple v works just fine:
v
or maybe it should be a w
w
no that w doesn't make any sense. Maybe the v needs a head:
V>
yeah, yeah. now it just needs a tail:
~(V>
is it better with a different tail?:
`-( V'>
haha, now it looks like a mouse.