Doves

“

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

”

Birds appear in all Valve-made maps (excluding Arena maps and Item Test). When a 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.

There are 78 birds in total.

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.

Gallery

• 

  A bird seen in Dustbowl.

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  A bird seen in Well that seemingly cannot be killed.

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.
• Birds do not move, blink, or fly - they remain perfectly stationary until they explode.

See also

• Bird locations

Co-ordinates

"birds" {
"tc_hydro"

{ "1" "-1263.83 1815.29 224.015" "2" "1621.91 1646.78 512.289" "3" "1126.15 -2139.32 315.173" "4" "-3312.48 -1535.56 521.414" }
"cp_well" { "1" "-462.492 -1591.35 -451.852" "2" "495.427 -1310.03 -314.519" "3" "455.488 1570.9 -451.466" "4" "-852.619 626.78 -93.9048" "5" "-383.922 242.915 -111.754" }
"cp_granary" { "1" "-1257.26 5136.37 -350.461" "2" "-834.798 4099.34 -341.711" "3" "-1119.73 -14.6785 -117.7" "4" "-2172.84 -2108.22 -283.461" "5" "-619.773 -5249.87 -335.494" }
"cp_dustbowl" { "1" "-1357.78 2599.1 -154.403" "2" "1924.47 -656.6 -28.9929" "3" "-1774.37 -555.154 211.071" }
"cp_gravelpit" { "1" "-3231.2 1568.61 -407.711" "2" "695.064 705.217 41.4357" "3" "-1870.73 2992.65 -351.428" "4" "111.081 3832.85 -38.6876" }
"ctf_2fort" { "1" "-323.986 -892.743 445.539" "2" "998.359 2418 547.87" "3" "-524.631 -152.669 294.749" "4" "-1207.85 -2386.56 518.961" }
"ctf_well" { "1" "-264.375 -506.816 -319.662" "2" "-464.085 1017.98 -452.481" "3" "-1030.19 -113.223 -191.077" }
"cp_badlands" { "1" "1750.99 1514.27 588.16" "2" "-166.295 -393.678 339.546" "3" "-1431.58 -1481.47 0.289124" }
"pl_goldrush" { "1" "-3005.13 1176.69 147.734" "2" "-3835.49 -2387.99 206.161" "3" "-4093.43 -402.933 416.723" }
"pl_badwater" { "1" "344.595 1218.59 288.815" "2" "-1097.08 -1426.97 573.215" "3" "2124.16 -650.055 273.56" }
"plr_pipeline" { "1" "-462.255 -2495.72 182.742" "2" "-1571.2 1557.69 230.628" }
"koth_sawmill" { "1" "601.414 -95.11 333.537" "2" "1258.03 -947.723 160.289" "3" "-1472.04 476.677 5.43653" }
"koth_nucleus" { "1" "-221.572 -900.831 528.289" "2" "215.414 592.239 -90.8227" "3" "339.839 1549.77 64.4009" }
"koth_viaduct" { "1" "-1071.39 142.511 752.464" "2" "-2070.05 -526.977 335.323" "3" "-932.622 2842.42 146.782" }
"ctf_doublecross" { "1" "4.34872 534.973 210.715" "2" "814.893 -251.127 204.271" "3" "-2478.88 -2384.42 36.2674" }
"cp_gorge" { "1" "-5822 3969.43 107.729" "2" "-5436.25 6404.3 16.5118" "3" "-6113.81 662.567 480.213" }
"pl_upward" { "1" "635.184 -1467.27 608.328" "2" "-1475.75 -2320.28 189.106" "3" "1350.41 -899.187 576.328" "4" "766.667 1726.61 658.65" "5" "990.469 -409.525 804.543" }
"plr_hightower" { "1" "6083.31 7485.44 212.328" "2" "8085.36 6393.34 -14.1732" "3" "6459.76 7744.68 573.588" "4" "6313.92 8718.57 344.328" }
"pl_thundermountain" { "1" "4029.34 3970.44 736.573" "2" "-825.825 -2066.04 136.076" "3" "-646.53 -2935.08 387.54" "4" "-4247.64 2703.44 576.328" "5" "-178.888 2377.98 871.32" "6" "478.595 2147.73 765.467" }
"cp_degrootkeep" { "1" "-402.024 1999.97 28.9656" "2" "-200.333 4310.36 169.581" "3" "199.648 5437.46 -205.072" "4" "324.371 1931.97 352.328" }
"cp_5gorge" { "1" "-6811.98 3907.33 116.139" "2" "-5477.63 6591.21 -46.998" "3" "-5591.23 -1882.89 25.8505" "4" "-5095.27 -2791.23 48.3282" "5" "-7343.09 -1697.07 79.4337" } }