However, in 2011, the student body voted in favor of a mythical bird as a mascot following a student-led initiative.

This mythical bird was said to live for five hundred years before being consumed by fire.

This prominent display of two liver birds rekindled the idea that the liver was a mythical bird that once haunted the local shoreline.

I assumed that this was because they were mythical birds: at any rate, birds that people like me were doomed never to see.

Above the large halo behind the statue are sculpted representations of lotus flowers, celestial beings and mythical birds.