In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy’s small yellow bird friend is named Woodstock.
Woodstock first appeared as an unnamed bird in the 1960s, before Charles M. Schulz gave him a name in 1970. The character is a close companion of Snoopy and communicates through indecipherable bird sounds rather than conventional dialogue. Despite his tiny size, Woodstock often joins Snoopy in imaginative adventures and helps reinforce the strip’s playful contrast between fantasy and everyday life.
Woodstock is a bird, not a human child or a miniature version of another Peanuts character. His name refers to the Woodstock music festival held in 1969, although the character’s visual design and personality remain distinctly Schulz’s creation. Snoopy and Woodstock’s friendship became one of the strip’s most recognizable relationships, alongside the human friendships among Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and Schroeder.
The Peanuts comic strip debuted in 1950 and became one of the most widely syndicated newspaper comics in history.