Avian/bird/gryphon

Right now ‘Bird’ is the catch all for Avian, but I disagree with this choice.
 
While bird should capture anthro birds, and feral birds of all varieties, gryphons, hippogryphs, and other avian chimera are not birds, and probably should not be tagged as such. I think we should unmerge the bird tag and the avian tag, with gryphon -> avian  
Various bird types -> bird -> avian  
and whatever chimera species we want to group under this same flag.

@Gyro  
I agree that birds should be only for what would be called a bird in real life and not for species like griffons.

Avian should be catchall. I can fix it later when I’m at my computer.

That was me by the way. I’m still not used to anonposting being a thing. :x

@Raptorshy  
I can do it now.

@Gyro
 
@Raptorshy  
I removed the implication for “bird” from griffons and hippogrifs and added implication for “avian” to all the tags that previously implied “bird”. What is left now is to delete “bird” tags from griffons and add avian instead, I’m doing it now. But is quadruped bird still a bird?
 

My personal opinion is no. I’ve seen them used as an alternate take on gryphons in other circles. (Like on F-List)

@Gyro  
IMO it’s just bird in different form, as this is not a hybrid or fictional species. Wouldn’t this even be the bird equivalent of taurs?
 
@Gyro  

I’d prefer a different name for this too. Maybe it can be changed?

@CruFox  
That is a damn good point actually. I always forget that taurs are a thing. Speaking of which, should taurs and lamias be added to the body shapes list?
 
 
Also, in that case, I petition for ‘Gryphon’ but even ‘Griffon’ is better than the one that is also a person’s name.

I’m fine with any of them. I use them pet interchangeably already. Only reason we have griffon now is because it’s official with mlp and what most of us are used to.
 
Personal bias towards gryphon though.

@Raptorshy  
We actually have ‘griffin’ right now, which isnt even mlp.

@Anonymous #0DD9  
That was me, I got logged out, oof.  
Wish I could delete my anonymous post and repost it as me.
 
@Gyro  
I checked out several dictionaries (multilingual and monolingual) and they all seem to list griffin as primary one.  
I personally prefer gryphon or griffon because they’re closer or exactly like where they come from (French, Latin).

@Moon Flower  
Dictionaries may do, yes, though FA and e621 both use ‘Gryphon’, and as a proud member of many Avian and Gryphon communities, I can assure you that ‘Gryphon’ is pretty much the most used spelling within the feathery/avian community itself.

I just went ahead and moved everything to gryphon (including the avian implication) since it’s more/less the go-to furry spelling.

Perfect, thanks!