diff --git a/app-network/bird/autobuild/beyond b/app-network/bird/autobuild/beyond
index 894810a44fe..98b509e75e5 100644
--- a/app-network/bird/autobuild/beyond
+++ b/app-network/bird/autobuild/beyond
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-abinfo "Installing example /etc/bird.conf ..."
-install -Dvm644 "$SRCDIR"/doc/bird.conf.example2 \
-    "$PKGDIR"/etc/bird.conf
-
 abinfo "Moving /var/run => /run ..."
 mv -v "$PKGDIR"/{var/,}run
 rm -rv "$PKGDIR"/var
diff --git a/app-network/bird/spec b/app-network/bird/spec
index 1bc65b3d11a..4a319885e21 100644
--- a/app-network/bird/spec
+++ b/app-network/bird/spec
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VER=2.14
+VER=2.15.1
 SRCS="tbl::https://bird.network.cz/download/bird-$VER.tar.gz"
-CHKSUMS="sha256::b0b9f6f8566541b9be4af1f0cac675c5a3785601a55667a7ec3d7de29735a786"
+CHKSUMS="sha256::48e85c622de164756c132ea77ad1a8a95cc9fd0137ffd0d882746589ce75c75d"
 CHKUPDATE="anitya::id=192"