This paper analyzes the function of the bird in Danijel Dragojevicʼs poetry. The first part of the paper describes the critical considerations of the author’s work and places it in the context of Croatian poetry after which its key poetic features are derived. The second part, which is dedicated to the bird motive, is divided into three segments. At the first level, an attempt is made to describe the role of the bird in relation to the author's basic characteristics, with the addition of a poststructuralist perspective. On another level, the analytical optics of the bird is transferred to the field of ecocriticism to indicate an environmental imagination that is critically oriented towards anthropocentric views of nature and the environment, producing a specific ecological consciousness or implicit ethics. The function of the bird, in the context of the author’s ecopoetics, also breaks established boundaries between urban and rural, nature and culture, art and reality, form and content, literary and non-literary discourses, genres and reception and text. On the final level, the bird motive is subjected to a stylistic interpretation that puts the text and its linguistic peculiarities in the foreground, and the theory, as its potential extension, into the secondary plan.