Is this a pigeon?

Is this a pigeon? is an Internet meme and quote of the protagonist from the 1990s Japanese anime TV series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird. The image originates from a scene where the character mistakes a butterfly as a pigeon. The image was originally posted on Tumblr and later the meme spread with other variations.

Origin
The meme originates from Yutaro Katori, a human android made by professor Hiroshi Amano, who misidentifies a butterfly as a pigeon while studying terrestrial nature in a scene from Season 1, Episode 3 of  The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird, which first aired in Japan in February 1991.

In 2011, the scene was uploaded to Tumblr, spawning many variations and becoming a popular meme. The meme had a resurgence in 2018. On June 27, 2013, BuzzFeed highlighted the meme in their compilation article titled "27 Subtitles That Have Gone Awesomely Wrong." In 2018, the meme returned to prominence on Twitter. In 2021, the meme was also used in The Mary Sue article.

Reception
Mashable described it as a new Distracted boyfriend meme of 2018.