The dove does most of the work on this page, and it does it across an unusual range of traditions. Hebrew yonah, Greek peristerá, Latin columba and Arabic ḥamāma are unrelated words attached to remarkably similar ideas — gentleness, peace, and the soul. The dove of Noah's ark and the dove of the Annunciation gave the bird a religious weight in the Abrahamic traditions that it has kept.
Persian poetry contributes a different bird entirely. The bulbul, the nightingale, is paired with the rose in a convention so fixed that the two words appear together across centuries of Persian, Urdu and Turkish verse — the nightingale singing to a rose that cannot answer. Names built on it belong to that literature, and read oddly if taken as ornithology. The rose half of the pair is on the rose page.
The falcon and the eagle appear far more often in the naming of sons than of daughters across most of these traditions, which is itself a fact about the traditions rather than about the birds. Where they do appear here, they tend to come from Turkic and Central Asian naming, where the association is with keen sight rather than with predation.
Songbirds, swans and cranes make up most of the rest, and the qualities named are almost always voice, grace or faithfulness.