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Speed Bump from May 2, 2014. Self-explanatory.

This is the oldest Mutts strip I have a copy of.  It was never made available online, so it is a scan of the one I clipped out of the newspaper on September 10, 1994. It is also one of only two Mutts strips in the comic's entire history to feature a budgie.

We move along in my limited archive of Peanuts strips into the 1960s ... Snoopy has now taken on the more familiar appearance, but birds still do things that exasperate him.  From August 22, 1964:

A Cheezburger entry from September 28, 2012 which fits the hot summer weather.

Back in June, I featured a story arc from the comic Diamond Lil which I thought at the time was a one-shot.  It turns out that was the introduction of a new character in the strip. So now I am going backwards through the archives to find strips featuring Stupid the Bird. Yes, that's his name, and this strip from September 29, 2014 shows why:

The ongoing parade of toons about birds pooping on freshly washed cars continues with this Bizarro from September 23, 2011. 

It is very reminiscent of a Non Sequitur strip that appeared about 3½ years later and was featured here about two months ago.

Loose Parts from October 1, 2013.  At least that bird will have a career as a avian cannonball (like a human cannonball, but feathered) to fall back on.

WuMo from November 27, 2014.  I love these strips that take human situations and adapt them successfully to avian ones.

Just when we thought that cliché had worn out its welcome ...

Another variation on the old "pirate with parrot on shoulder" theme crosses into a lament usually heard by stand-up comics, from Strange Brew of June 10, 2014: