I think that the sudden influx of rubbish animal figures with Holmegaard attributions on eBay this year might be my fault - I included a Holmegaard frigger in my contribution to the current Miller's collectables price guide.
I also included this caveat, most of which was edited out in the final text: "These small uncatalogued birds were made in plentiful numbers throughout the early- and mid-1970s, and were made available as novelties through the factory gift-shop. Many other factories have made similar objects commercially, so a keen awareness of Holmegaard's palette from this period is paramount in telling them apart."
Since then I've seen so many eBayers peddling animal-shaped tosh and claiming Miller's as their attribution source - which always has the knock-on effect of other sellers dropping the attribution altogether and claiming it as outright fact.
The bird in question: