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.