Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In mythology and fiction (usually fantasy and science fiction) bird people are a race of people who resemble, or who are evolved from, birds. This is a common motif in movies, TV, and video games. Sometimes, the bird people are a "lost race". Examples of the bird-people motif in science fiction and fantasy fiction include: Otis Adelbert Kline wrote a short story for Weird Tales titled "The Bird People". The race of bird people led by Stratos in the Masters of the Universe cartoon series (and line of toys). The bird people of Brontitall in The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy, led by The Wise Old Bird Douglas Adams has the bird people evolving from humans who are so sick of buying shoes that they evolve into bird-like creatures and never set foot on the ground again. (See Shoe Event Horizon.) This is unusual, in that the motif involves bird-people evolving from humans, rather than birds.