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• 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.
  • Countertheory: 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, 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"
• The bird may be the incarnation of someone Hurley once knew. Possibly his grandfather, reincarnated like Kates dad into the horse, and like Duckett into the boar that tormented Sawyer. However since Hurley tends to be a positive person this animal could be there to watch over him rather than force him to repent as the other animal examples suggest.
• 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.
  • The bird call can be heard also during the Monster attack. While Jack is looking for Locke, Kate and Hurley are running in the jungle: at this point we can hear the bird sound (in the same moment the camera look at Hurley), just before Kate screaming "Jack!".
• 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.
  • If the Monster is controlled by Jacob, the "Hurley" screech might as well be a "Help me" screech, similar to what Locke heard in "The Man Behind the Curtain".
  • As the Monster cannot get over the sonic fence, this is unlikely.
• 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 begining of the Pilot Part 1 when Jack is laying on the jungle floor.
• The bird is a quetzal, a beautifully colored bird of the trogon family (Trogonidae) found in tropical regions of the Americas.
• In the mobisode "Room 23" we see that Walt also had control over more birds on the Island so maybe Walt was able to control this bird in order to call out for help to Hurley.