Mysterious Birds in Valve Maps?

Pyromancer

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I've been noticing some odd white birds in the TF2 official valve maps. Anyone else noticed this. Oh and, I'm going to get some pictures soon.

INFO:
The bird appears in valve maps in 1 specific place (More than once on multiple stage maps), and is a white bird, possibly a dove, that explodes on touch with projectiles and players. As far as I know the explosion doesn't deal damage.

ALSO:
If someone's on any valve maps, or these maps (well they're valve maps too of course) could you look out for the birds and tell me if you see them?

EDIT:
Pictures

Dustbowl (Stage 1)
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Dustbowl (Stage 2)
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Dustbowl (Stage 3)
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Well
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Granary
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Gorge
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Bockagon

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Just loaded up and ran around dustbowl out of curiosity. I see birds in the same spots as in Pyromancer's pictures :O They don't move at all and explode when you shoot them.

(also I actually made a post, it's a sign of the apocalypse)
 

Pyromancer

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Sorry I missed the other thread thing, but I too think it may be a meet the medic reference. Especially since there is an achievement for the medic including a bird, you know the one where you have to get top points without killing anyone? Could be.
 

gamemaster1996

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It's definetely a meet the medic hint.

This is backed up by the achivment with the picture of the bird on it.

Also a question for Pyromancer: Do you play Team Fortress 2 on that computer?
 

KingOfSandvich

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This reminds me of the mysterious radios in Portal more than a year ago, although I doubt that this is any sign of TF3. Are there any sounds for the birds? Valve likes to hide things in sound files.

EDIT: I just loaded a map with birds on it, and did some poking around with console commands. It has its own entity name: "entity_bird" here is the output for an ent_info on it:

Code:
] ent_info entity_bird
  output: OnIgnite
  output: OnUser1
  output: OnUser2
  output: OnUser3
  output: OnUser4
  input: skin
  input: SetBodyGroup
  input: Ignite
  input: IgniteLifetime
  input: IgniteNumHitboxFires
  input: IgniteHitboxFireScale
  input: BecomeRagdoll
  input: SetLightingOriginHack
  input: SetLightingOrigin
  input: fademindist
  input: fademaxdist
  input: TeamNum
  input: SetTeam
  input: Kill
  input: KillHierarchy
  input: Use
  input: Alpha
  input: AlternativeSorting
  input: Color
  input: SetParent
  input: SetParentAttachment
  input: SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset
  input: ClearParent
  input: SetDamageFilter
  input: EnableDamageForces
  input: DisableDamageForces
  input: DispatchEffect
  input: DispatchResponse
  input: AddContext
  input: RemoveContext
  input: ClearContext
  input: DisableShadow
  input: EnableShadow
  input: AddOutput
  input: FireUser1
  input: FireUser2
  input: FireUser3
  input: FireUser4

It looks suspiciously like the set of inputs/outputs for a HL2 npc, but for now all it does is sit around and explode.

It can probably be placed in a map without any keyvalues. Spamming "ent_create entity_bird" can make a zillion of them:
lotsabirds.png

Creepy...
 
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Pyromancer

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It's definetely a meet the medic hint.

This is backed up by the achivment with the picture of the bird on it.

Also a question for Pyromancer: Do you play Team Fortress 2 on that computer?

Yeah I used the same computer as whatever you were talking 'bout.
 

Psy

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Naw, it looks like it's derived from prop_dynamic or something.