Birds of the World - Ultimate Bird Prop Pack

[Captain Callum]

Explore the birds of the world with yet another of my blueprint megapacks for the workshop! Convinving myself I can build the largest collection of birds, Birds of the World aims to do exactly what it says - to cover the wide diversity of birds and bring it to the game to fill up empty spaces in your zoo with bright and colorful aviaries. This is an ambitious task which will take a long time, likely into the next year to cover a huge collection of birds as I'm not just going to make a few blueprints. I also want to mention that I will try to cover all continents just as equally ensuring places like oceania and europe still get a fair share of birds against the bird powerhouses of asia and south america.

Need a specific bird? The bird does not need to be in captivity to have a place in the pack. Please let me know and I can add it to the list.

In a spoiler, the planned blueprints can be found. This is a work in progress and will receive regular updates expanding or removing birds from the list if the pack has been released on the workshop. You can also check back here if interested what future packs are up next:

Spoiler: Planned Bird Packs

Standalone Series

• Metawishlist Pack
  • Secretary Bird
  • Shoebill
  • Grey Crowned Crane
  • Great White Pelican
  • Marabou Stork
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Southern Ground Hornbill
  • Helmeted Guineafowl
  • Roseate Spoonbill
  • Golden Pheasant
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Atlantic Puffin
  • Eastern Wild Turkey
  • Himalayan Monal
• Pheasants Pack
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Crested Argus
  • Palawan Peacock-pheasant
  • White-crested Kalij
  • Copper Pheasant
  • Silver Pheasant
  • Edwards Pheasant
  • Lady Amherst's Pheasant
  • Reeves Pheasant
  • Temminck's Pheasant
• Crows Pack
  • American Crow
  • Carrion Crow
  • Hooded Crow
  • Rook
  • Common Raven
  • Australian Raven
  • White-necked Raven
  • Jungle Crow
  • Fish Crow
  • Pied Crow
  • House Crow
  • Torresian Crow
• Domestic Birds Pack
  • Chicken
  • Pekin Duck
  • Bronze Turkey
  • Embden Goose
  • Chinese Goose
  • Domestic Guineafowl
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Japanese Quail
• Geese Pack
  • Greylag Goose
  • Canada Goose
  • Bar-headed Goose
  • Snow Goose
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Red-breasted Goose
  • Bean Goose
  • Hawaiian Goose
  • Brent Goose
  • Swan Goose
  • Emperor Goose
• Flamingos Pack
  • Lesser Flamingo
  • Chilean Flamingo
  • James's Flamingo
  • Andean Flamingo
  • American Flamingo

To start off the birds, I went with the larger birds of prey to get familar with how to build birds. These larger birds of prey are eagles of course! 10 species of eagle from around the world have been made into the very first bird pack, and my very first attempt at building birds. The pack features:

• Bald eagle
• Golden Eagle
• White-tailed eagle
• Stellar's sea eagle
• Harpy eagle
• Bateleur eagle
• African Fish eagle
• Philippine eagle
• Crowned eagle
• Wedge-tailed eagle

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[Xrystal]

I swear I saw the bird in the bottom picture shake its head rofl.

Good work. Very Impressive. And an ambitious project. As long as you are having fun while doing it .. have at it.

 

[Captain Callum]

I swear I saw the bird in the bottom picture shake its head rofl.

Good work. Very Impressive. And an ambitious project. As long as you are having fun while doing it .. have at it.

Thanks! Building these birds is a great change of pace compared to building huge zoos, despite the complex building steps for making these birds, it is still fun.

 

[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Vultures Pack

Continuing large birds of prey brings vultures to the workshop! These rather ugly birds are some of the largest aviary birds, birds like the andean condor make an impressive aviary showcase. Heavy use of the tropical pack's drapery pieces allowed to me to replicate the wrinkly bare skin that vultures have which was not really possible at all to do right before last year.

The vultures included covers almost all the worldwide range of vultures with north america, africa and eurasia getting a great variety of choice. South america is also included, and oceania is left out since no vultures are present there. The pack includes 13 species of vultures:

• California Condor
• Andean Condor
• Turkey Vulture
• Black Vulture
• Bearded Vulture
• Eurasian Griffon Vulture
• King Vulture
• Ruppell's Vulture
• Cape Vulture
• Palm-nut Vulture
• Egyptian Vulture
• Cinerous Vulture
• Hooded Vulture

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[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Metawishlist Birds

The next bird pack is an exciting one for those who love popular birds! The metawishlist birds pack takes 8 of the most popular birds requested by the community on the metawishlist by random goat and includes them in an exciting pack to use. The idea was to cross off the most popular birds to:

1. Give everyone the popular birds in high detail they have been asking for so long
2. Gain more popularity for my birds of the world collection on the workshop to show I can make the detailed birds
3. Gives me access to alot of different base models to use in future packs. Birds like the ibis, duck, pelican and crowned crane will become very useful later on

The metawishlist pack doesn't include all the top requested birds due to the large piece count used on large birds like the marabou stork. Other birds like the southern ground hornbill, atlantic puffin and golden pheasant will come in their own packs in due time. For example the golden pheasant will be the star of the pheasant pack, or the atlantic puffin will be the star of the european seabirds pack.

So the pack contains:

• Secretary Bird
• Shoebill
• Marabou Stork
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Scarlet Ibis
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Mandarin Duck (both male and female included)
• Great White Pelican

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[RightWhale]

1. Amazing work as always, these are so fantastic I can’t even put it in words.
2. Seeing the “meta wishlist” pack gives me visceral pain like a horse with colic. Once again, amazing work, but seeing these animals that could work in game most likely only be through props makes me upset.
3. Again, massive kudos to you, just know I can’t use these because after I put down 4 birds the amount of props on my game would make my laptop implode.

 

[Captain Callum]

1. Amazing work as always, these are so fantastic I can’t even put it in words.
2. Seeing the “meta wishlist” pack gives me visceral pain like a horse with colic. Once again, amazing work, but seeing these animals that could work in game most likely only be through props makes me upset.
3. Again, massive kudos to you, just know I can’t use these because after I put down 4 birds the amount of props on my game would make my laptop implode.

The pain making those birds that should of came in previous packs was unbearable for me as well, even with a mega bird pack that will probably never come, half of these birds are likely to be missed. The only chance we will get them by these props is kinda sad.

Most of these birds are say around 200 pieces which should be alright for most laptops since it's mainly just gutter caps which do disappear after 100 metres or so. The limitations of trying to keep pieces count down while maintaining realistic details is an ongoing challenge.

 

[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Pelican Pack

We already got one pelican with the metawishlist pack so why not the rest! Pretty easy to make as copying the base model of the great white pelican and adjusting it for each different is exactly what I hoped it would be like. An easy but effective 5 pelicans from around the world to place in aquatic habitats.

Pelicans featured:

• American White Pelican
• Brown Pelican
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Dalmatian Pelican
• Australian Pelican

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[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Swans & Geese Packs

Using the base model of the pelican and repeatly making it smaller, a whole bunch of swans and geese have been added in just a day. Using these base models saves me so much time and works pretty well and modifying the size of each body makes it look like a brand new model without any effort put into it. So 2 packs today with one for swans, and one for geese.

The Swan pack includes 7 swans:

• Mute Swan
• Trumpeter Swan
• Whooper Swan
• Tundra Swan
• Black Swan
• Black-necked Swan
• Coscoroba Swan

The Geese pack includes 15 geese:

• Bar-headed goose
• Emperor Goose
• Snow Goose
• Greylag Goose
• Swan Goose
• Taiga Bean Goose
• Pink Footed Goose
• White-fronted Goose
• Brant Goose
• Red-breasted Goose
• Nene
• Canada Goose
• Barnacle Goose
• Cackling Goose
• Magpie Goose

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[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Owls

Some of the most iconic birds of prey in zoos are owls, owls such as the snowy owl and eurasian eagle owl are very common birds to find in zoos. Including the most common and some lesser known owls in a large 20 owls pack! All continents apart from antarctica are covered with owls species with owls in every biome covering all everyone's needs for static owl aviaries.

The owls featured are:

• Snowy Owl
• Eastern Screech Owl
• Burrowing Owl
• Barn Owl
• European Tawny Owl
• Ural Owl
• Great Gray Owl
• Eurasian Eagle Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Barred Owl
• Australian Boobook Owl
• Barking owl
• Short Eared Owl
• Long Eared Owl
• Indian Eagle Owl
• Spectacled Owl
• Brown Wood Owl
• White Faced Scops Owl
• Common Scops Owl
• Verreaux's Eagle Owl / Milky Eagle Owl

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[Marvinb]

What is this with me sposting in the wrong threads, sorry

 

[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Hawks Pack

Finishing off the birds of prey packs are the hawks. This pack covers the broad range of medium sized raptors such as the hawks, buzzards, falcons, kites, harriers, and goshawks. The wide range of hawk-like birds joins the owls, vultures and eagles to complete the birds of prey series of packs, there are a few remaining birds of prey such as the crested caracara but those will be featured in the continental series.

This pack features 21 hawks from around the world with well known birds such as the peregrine falcon, osprey and red-tailed hawk included alongside regional niche raptors like the roadside hawk from south america or the black-breasted buzzard from australia. Also among the smallest birds of the prey is the adorable african pygmy falcon at just 20cm tall.

Hawks featured in this pack:

• Red-tailed Hawk
• Harris's Hawk
• Common Buzzard
• Osprey
• Cooper's Hawk
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Roadside Hawk
• African Harrier-hawk
• Augur Buzzard
• Black Kite
• Brahminy Kite
• Red Kite
• Black-breasted Buzzard
• Hen Harrier
• Northern Goshawk
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Peregrine Falcon
• Gyrfalcon
• Saker Falcon
• African Pygmy Falcon

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[Captain Callum]

Standalone Series - Crows Pack

Moving away from birds of prey leads the birds of the world collection to a type of bird not really seen much on the workshop but a very common sight in zoos and the wild - crows! The crows pack includes 17 species of crows, ravens, jackdaws and choughs from around the world which covers the typical crow-like birds of the corvid family. Including 17 species when half the crows look identical may seem pointless but each crow does differ in at least one way or another.

Crows included in this pack:

• Common Raven
• Australian Raven
• White-necked Raven
• American Crow
• Carrion Crow
• Hooded Crow
• Large-billed Crow
• Pied Crow
• Fish Crow
• Torresian Crow
• House Crow
• Rook
• Western Jackdaw
• Daurian Jackdaw
• Collared Crow
• Red-billed Chough
• Alpine Chough

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[weinerman]

These are incredible, i remember you telling me once that you didn't make the static animal models, but i am really glad you decided to give it a go!! Already planning to use some of them in my zoos.

At risk of sounding selfish, have you thought about doing fish at all? The aquarium pack by drac is great but i am really missing freshwater fish, and my hands are far too shaky to build with the necessary precision lol. Regardless, awesome job with the birds and i hope you are enjoying it because they truly are really good

 

[Captain Callum]

These are incredible, i remember you telling me once that you didn't make the static animal models, but i am really glad you decided to give it a go!! Already planning to use some of them in my zoos.

At risk of sounding selfish, have you thought about doing fish at all? The aquarium pack by drac is great but i am really missing freshwater fish, and my hands are far too shaky to build with the necessary precision lol. Regardless, awesome job with the birds and i hope you are enjoying it because they truly are really good

Thanks! Yeah I remember telling you that lol, at the time I never thought I could build anything like this at all. I could have a go with some fish, it can't be too difficult compared to birds, are there any specific fish you are wanting me to potentially build?

 

[weinerman]

Thanks! Yeah I remember telling you that lol, at the time I never thought I could build anything like this at all. I could have a go with some fish, it can't be too difficult compared to birds, are there any specific fish you are wanting me to potentially build?

No, I would be super juiced for any freshwater fish just about! Anything that you think you would actually use, or would have fun building.

 

[Fini]

May I ask you, even though it would be a bit selfish, could you make budgies for “me” in all kinds of colors? Or are they too small? I would really like to build an enclosure for budgies in my outback section.

 

[Captain Callum]

May I ask you, even though it would be a bit selfish, could you make budgies for “me” in all kinds of colors? Or are they too small? I would really like to build an enclosure for budgies in my outback section.
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Budgies are coming soon! as soon as I finish the pheasant and Shelduck packs, I am moving onto the Oceania series of birds which will definitely include several colors of budgies. I'm well aware that absolutely no one so far has made any budgies on the workshop.

 

[Marvinb]

Budgies are coming soon! as soon as I finish the pheasant and Shelduck packs, I am moving onto the Oceania series of birds which will definitely include several colors of budgies. I'm well aware that absolutely no one so far has made any budgies on the workshop.

What really? Well i guess its hard to make such a small bird

 

[Captain Callum]

What really? Well i guess its hard to make such a small bird

Yeah I was surprised aswell, there's lots of tiny birds especially north American ones like the Black-capped chickadee made by drac and jaguar_X but none of the skilled creators made the budgie which I thought is an extremely iconic zoo bird.