Birds of a Feather (disambiguation)

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The idiom Birds of a Feather is from the proverb "Birds of a feather flock together," meaning that similar people congregate. In old poetic English, "birds of a feather" means birds which have the same kind of feathers, so the proverb refers to the fact that birds congregate with birds of their own species. This proverb has been in use since the 16th century.

Plato used the phrase in The Republic, 360 B.C.E, "I will tell you, Socrates, he said, what my own feeling is. Men of my age flock together; we are birds of a feather, as the old proverb says;"

The expression may have the following meanings:

• Birds of a Feather, a British sitcom that aired from 1989 to 1998
• Birds of a Feather (computing), an informal discussion group, or session.
• "Birds of a Feather" (song), a song by American rock band Phish
• "Birds of a Feather" (Killing Joke song), 1982 single by Killing Joke
• "Birds of a Feather" (Murder, She Wrote episode), an episode of Murder, She Wrote
• "Birds of a Feather" (Batman: The Animated Series), an episode of Batman: The Animated Series
• Bentvueghels ("Birds of a Feather"), a group of Dutch and Flemish artists active in seventeenth-century Rome.
• Birds of a Feather (film), a 1917 film starring Harold Lloyd.
• Birds of a Feather (novel), by Jacqueline Winspear.
• "Birds of a Feather", song by pop/rock's Paul Revere & the Raiders
• "Bird of Feather", song by the Australian prog rock band Cog.
• "Birds of a Feather", song written by Ralph Reader and performed by various Gang Shows

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