The swallow was featured on the former Slovene two tolar coin, the stork on the 20 tolar bill and the owl on the 20 stotin coin. 50 Slovene family names are bird names Birds are also common among Slovene family names: around 21,000 people in Slovenia have bird names for family names.
Se še spomnite, da je tudi slovenski kovanec za 2 tolarja nosil podobo lastovke, kovanec za 20 tolarjev podobo štorklje in da je kovanček za 20 stotinov krasila sova? Med slovenskimi živalskimi priimki kar 50 ptic Ptice so pogoste tudi med slovenskimi živalskimi priimki: v Sloveniji je okoli 21.000 oseb, katerih priimek pomeni neko vrsto ptice.