Mysterious Birds in Valve Maps?

[Pyromancer]

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)

Dustbowl (Stage 2)

Dustbowl (Stage 3)

Well

Granary

Gorge

 

[Boylee]

You're going mad. I see no birds, either in the maps or the screenshots above.

 

[Terwonick]

load up one of the maps and check those areas to see what entity it is/if it's just random.

 

[REEJ]

it's a meet the medic reference

 

[Wilson]

What birds? I am pretty sure there never was any birds.

 

[Bockagon]

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)

 

[Trotim]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1922532

 

[Fredrik]

I see burds!

 

[littleedge]

Since you're cOLDer than the cOLDest cOLD thing ever, http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1922532

 

[Pyromancer]

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.

 

[littleedge]

Plus there's the Meet the Medic image of birds flying around a badass looking medic

 

[tyler]

man you guys are on the ball

 

[lana]

Penguin is a mysterious bird.

 

[zpqrei]

"AH! Bird! Bird! Kill it! It's evil!"

 

[gamemaster1996]

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?

 

[lana]

It's definetely a meet the medic hint.

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

Foolproof.

 

[grazr]

Medic achievement: heal 9001 hit points on a bird before a player destroys it.

Rage everywhere.

 

[KingOfSandvich]

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:

] 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:

Creepy...

 

[Pyromancer]

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]

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