Bird
Freedom, perspective, and messages — what flies in when you leave the door open.
A bird in a dream often carries something — a sense, a piece of news, a feeling — that has come in from somewhere outside your immediate situation. Watch what kind of bird it is and what it does. A bird flying into a house is a feeling that has arrived and is going to be with you for a while.
A caged bird is your own freedom held by something — a circumstance, a role, an old agreement. A flock of birds is community moving together; their direction often matches a decision you are about to make.
A bird of prey is focused intention — yours or someone else's — and it is rarely casual.
Where you often see it. A bird at a window. A bird perched on a familiar branch. A bird flown away. The dream uses the bird for freedom, perspective, and messages — what flies in when you leave the door open.
What it is not. A bird is not always omen. The dictionary reads it as the dreamer's relation to aerial perspective.
Related in the dictionary. Read bird with sky, flying, baby-bird, and the specific bird-species entries when a particular one appears.