In Genesis, the first bird Noah sends out after the Flood is a raven.
Genesis 8 describes Noah waiting until the waters had receded before testing the condition of the earth. He first sends a raven, which flies back and forth. He then sends a dove to see whether the water has subsided from the ground. The raven therefore comes first in the sequence, even though the dove is the bird most strongly associated with the episode.
The raven’s role is sometimes omitted in simplified versions of the story. Popular imagery usually focuses on the dove and its olive leaf, which symbolize returning life and peace in later cultural traditions. Genesis itself presents the bird releases as practical observations by Noah.
This question concerns the order of the birds, not the bird that returns with an olive leaf. That later event belongs to the dove’s part of the narrative and is a separate detail.