Human headed bird hybrid
A motif, one of the traits figures share. All traits.
Form
6 figures
magical birds with human faces
Chonchon is a flying human head with feathers and talons.
Garuda is typically depicted as part man and part eagle, with a golden human torso and limbs, a white face, red wings, and an eagle's beak and talons.
depicted with the body of a bird, often an owl or other large bird, and the head and torso of a beautiful woman
Kyōrinrin is drawn as a long-beaked, bird-like tsukumogami with rolled sutra scrolls wound about its head and body and long, reaching arms
Jataya is described in the sources as a huge, fabulous bird with a human head, counted as a descendant of Garuda, the great bird who serves as the mount of Vishnu, and identified as the sibling of another similarly formed bird named Sampati.