HMS Bird was an 8-gun survey sloopColledge 2010, p. 44. of the Royal Navy, in service from 1764 to 1775 and engaged in an early coastal survey of Ireland.
The small and lightly armed vessel was purchased on the stocks in May 1764 from shipwright Henry Bird of Rotherithe.Winfield 2007, p. 354. As designed, Birds overall length was with a beam of and hold depth of . She measured 75 tons burthen and was armed with 8 small guns.
She was fitted out at Deptford dockyard between May and August 1764 at a total cost of £664 and commissioned thereafter under Lieutenant John Cowan. Launched in 1764, she spent four years conducting coastal survey work along the Irish shore, returning to Deptford for refitting in 1769.
Bird was broken up at Deptford Dockyard in March 1775.
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