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Contents 1 Hurley Bird 2 Gulls 3 Other Birds

Hurley Bird

• Might not be a joke. The closed captioning for the episode says something like: Bird Squawks "Hurley", though that too could be done as a joke. More likely the bird is an omen. Or maybe it's Libby warning Hurley in much the same way as Eko dreamed of Ana-Lucia.
  • Closed captioning is notoriously inaccurate, particularly when trying to interpret unfamiliar words or unusual pronunciations. CC is generally done by independent contractors who generally use the broadcast version rather than an actual script. This could be an example of the closed captioner making the same mistake that fans have made.
  • Counter theory: usually closed-captioning is done by a separate operation from the producers of a television program, and therefore is generally considered unofficial and non-canon. It is unknown if this is true with Lost.
  • However, if done independently, it should support Hurley's claim that the bird said his name. The closed-captioner heard (or read it in the script), too.
    • However, the second squawk is an admitted joke refering to the first appearance.
  • However, on the Season 2 DVD of Lost, the official subtitling for the hearing impaired, done by ABC who produces the DVDs, the subtitles says some to the effect of "Bird Squawks: Hurley"
• May be two different birds, the one in "Exodus, Part 2" was black, not green.
  • Male and Female birds of the same species are often different colours.
  • The bird in "Exodus, Part 2" appears to be green and not black. Even though proof is needed, I believe people merely presumed the bird was black when it was first seen in "Exodus, Part 2".
  • The bird in "Exodus, Part 2" appeared just before an attack from the black smoke. And a similar bird call was heard moments before the black smoke attacked Boone and Shannon a few episodes earlier in "Hearts and Minds". If this is indeed the same bird as the Hurley Bird, then this bird may actually be the Black Smoke or serve as a scout for the Black Smoke.
• Could be the incarnation of the Monster that a podcast said viewers saw without knowing it.
  • If so, the Monster's intentions could have been to entice Michael into shooting at it. The Monster wanted Michael to know that his gun was not loaded, and that his plot had been foiled.
• The Green Lantern, one of the heroes in Walt's comic book, often creates green animals with his ring. Since many pieces of the comic book have somehow turned up on the Island, this could support theories about Walt "creating" things on the Island.
• The bird could be another animal species part of a zoology DHARMA facility on the Island, along with polar bears and sharks.
• This bird could be the one Faith Harrington is running after in the book Endangered Species.
• It's green and seems to talk. Maybe it's a giant parrot.
  • Seems to be more to it than that, why does it specifically say "Hurley"?
• The bird is genetically altered like the polar bears to live in the climate
• Is there to draw attention to the general rarity of birds on the Island.
• Might be heard in the very beginning of the Pilot Part 1 when Jack is laying on the jungle floor.

Gulls

• The gulls are actually part of DHARMA's zoology projects and were not, in fact, migrating.
  • They are affected by the magnetic anomaly on the Island so do not migrate correctly.
• We will see the gull with the message attached to its leg again, just like the message bottle.
• Penelope will find the gull, and will use it to help her find the Island.

Other Birds

• The hospital TV in Claire's mother's room showing flying geese in "Par Avion" was a scene from the feature film Winged Migration