The subject of the study is to determine the bird motifs in the poems of the minstrels, who are the representatives of a century-old accumulation, and to interpret the characteristics of these birds. It is possible to trace cultural elements through the Minstrel tradition, which is one of the common cultural heritages of Turkish culture. The minstrels, who are a part of the society and fed by the society, carried the material and spiritual elements of the society into their poems. The meanings that animals, which are one of these material elements, acquired in the minds of people, have taken a place in all countries of the world in common and various ways, and this symbolic semantic richness has found an extremely important response in Turkish minstrel poetry. Bird motifs, one of these elements, were also used extensively by the lovers, and birds were evaluated together with their physical and spiritual characteristics. In the study, crane, phoenix, crow and hawk motifs were taken as the basis and these motifs were examined in sub-titles supported by poems. Since the scope of the subject is very wide, certain minstrels are included here and the names of the birds in the poems of these minstrels are scanned. In the light of the information obtained, the equivalent of the bird motif in material life and mythical meaning has been tried to be given together with the determinations made on the poems.

Tradition of minstrel, motif, crane, phoenix, crow, falcon.