The purpose of this work is to identify, describe and compare the figurative semantics of ornithonyms in the Russian and Georgian languages. Russian Russian and Georgian linguocultures have not been the subject of special consideration and the comparison of ornithonyms with a figurative meaning is relevant and useful in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The following research methods were used: analysis of dictionary definitions of ornithonyms in Russian and Georgian languages; The method of continuous sampling, analytical, descriptive, classification, and comparative methods The contrastive analysis of Russian and Georgian ornithonyms used in a figurative sense showed both cases of coincidence, complete or partial, and cases of discrepancy in values.