Birds in Suomi Mythology

I've been looking into Suomi mythology around birds - they appear very prominently and I see a direct correlation with Maori mythology in some of the stories. Being a Celtic-descended Pakeha it's a weird place to be because I don't have ownership of either of these mythologies; I feel a great deal of kinship with the Maori mythology because I think of Aotearoa as my home and as I've worked directly with birds and bird conservation to the point I can identify the calls of even rare endemic species. The Suomalainen don't really fit in with the other Scandinavian peoples of whom I also have ancestry (although Finland has been variously invaded by Swedes and Russians over much of it's history). I'm moving carefully around cultural appropriation issues, I try to keep my work *informed* by but not *taking* from because I want to incorporate ideas from what I am learning and experiencing here.