Doves

“

Go on, get! Click to listen — The Engineer shooing away a bird

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Birds appear in all Valve-made maps, with the exception of Arena maps, Target and Item Test.

There are two types of bird, perched and flying. The perched birds do not move, blink, or fly; they remain perfectly stationary. When a perched bird is attacked or touched by a player, it will explode. The explosion causes no damage or knockback. Birds that have exploded will re-appear at the beginning of a new round. Flying birds appear when a player is killed, appearing to come from the corpse or gibs.

There are 78 perched birds in total.

Locations

See Bird locations for a listing of all bird sightings.

Update history

June 8, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Birds have been added to all Valve-made maps.

June 10, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a problem related to spawning multiple entities unnecessarily between mini-rounds.

June 17, 2011 Patch

• Fixed a server crash triggered during entity cleanup.
• [Undocumented] Added a new "Dove" model with flight animations.

Bugs

• There is a bird near the center of Well on a rafter that seemingly cannot be killed, as it is inside of a clip brush that blocks all weapons fire or entry. None of the other birds have this problem. This bird can only be killed through the use of noclip or sticky jumping and hitting it with the Ullapool Caber.

Trivia

• Birds can be seen in a teaser image of Meet the Medic, and the final panel of Meet the Director.
• On June 17th, 2011 birds were added to the TF2 Official Blog, linking to 3 images.

Gallery

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  A bird seen in Dustbowl.

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  A bird seen in Well that seemingly cannot be killed.

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  Flying Dove model, added on June 17, 2011 Patch.

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  Dove flying animation

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  Doves on the official website

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  Hidden picture "Hospital.jpg"

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  Hidden picture "Waitingroom.jpg"

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  Hidden picture "Doctorsoffice.jpg"

See also

• Meet the Medic