Copyright Question

[Felina Noctis]

Hi there,
I'm not very skilled in searching on your side and looking at the FAQs I 
didn't find the answer I was lookind for, so I hope you don't mind me 
sending you an email!
I really like this bird you've got for a symbol and would like to 
suggest it as a smilie for my favourite internetplatform. You find it 
under www.comicforum.de, it is about comics and books and music, nothing 
strange or illegal or anything. But because you allways have to be 
carefull about Copyright, I wanted to ask if it is allowed to use your 
bird - the pidgin - as a smilie there. I mean, I found a lot of banners 
on your page, maybe we could use one of those? But I want to make sure, 
because it is allways best to ask for permission before using something 
that belongs to someone else! :-)
Thank you very much for your time!
Stefanie aka Felina Noctis