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Birds of the World - Ultimate Bird Prop Pack
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Standalone Series - Pheasants Pack
Colorful and noisy, pheasants are staples of an asian aviary. 18 pheasants have been made representing a large portion of mainly asian ground dwelling birds, these include pheasants, tragopans, firebacks, peacock-pheasants and the great argus. Slowly expanding the most popular meta-wishlist birds are the additions of the golden pheasant and himalayan monal.
Pheasants included in the pack:
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Colorful and noisy, pheasants are staples of an asian aviary. 18 pheasants have been made representing a large portion of mainly asian ground dwelling birds, these include pheasants, tragopans, firebacks, peacock-pheasants and the great argus. Slowly expanding the most popular meta-wishlist birds are the additions of the golden pheasant and himalayan monal.
Pheasants included in the pack:
- Common Pheasant
- Golden Pheasant
- Reeve's Pheasant
- Lady Amherst's Pheasant
- Edward's Pheasant
- Palawan Peacock-pheasant
- Green Pheasant
- Blue-eared Pheasant
- White-eared Pheasant
- Silver Pheasant
- Elliott's Pheasant
- Himalayan Monal
- Bornean Crested Fireback
- Siamese Fireback
- Great Argus
- Blyth's Tragopan
- Temmincks's Tragopan
- Satyr Tragopan
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Oceania Series - Arid Birds
With the standalone series complete (which covered all the major bird packs not linked to a single continent), it's about time I branch off into more specialised biome packs for each continent! Due to popular demand, Oceania with it's vast range of colorful birds and underrepresentation on the workshop, is the first continent series. I will cover as much birds as I can over multiple packs covering all major biomes and include others such as ducks, seabirds and notable endangered birds.
The interior of Australia was the first goal, mainly to get budgies finally on the workshop. But the colorful bird choices doesn't just stop at budgies, Bourke's parrot and australian ringneck parrots also have multiple color variations. Along with that there are desert camouflagued birds especially the pigeons, the large australian bustard, the iconic Pink cockatoo and more.
Complete list of birds featured in the pack:
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With the standalone series complete (which covered all the major bird packs not linked to a single continent), it's about time I branch off into more specialised biome packs for each continent! Due to popular demand, Oceania with it's vast range of colorful birds and underrepresentation on the workshop, is the first continent series. I will cover as much birds as I can over multiple packs covering all major biomes and include others such as ducks, seabirds and notable endangered birds.
The interior of Australia was the first goal, mainly to get budgies finally on the workshop. But the colorful bird choices doesn't just stop at budgies, Bourke's parrot and australian ringneck parrots also have multiple color variations. Along with that there are desert camouflagued birds especially the pigeons, the large australian bustard, the iconic Pink cockatoo and more.
Complete list of birds featured in the pack:
- Spinifex Pigeon
- Budgie
- Pink Cockatoo
- Bourke's Parrot
- Australian Bustard
- Flock Bronzewing
- Diamond Dove
- Cinnamon Quail-thrush
- Australian Ringneck
- Hooded Robin
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Oceania Series - Tropical Forest Birds
The tropical forests of Northern Oceania (excluding rainforests, that will be the next pack) feature lots of small and colorful birds that are quite common in zoos with species of lorikeets for example being very popular avairy sights. Their unique bright feathers easily make a colorful aviary especially when combined with multiple species - there are 8 included in this pack allowing for mixed lorikeet aviaries. Apart from lorikeets, there are a variety of parrots, pigeons/doves, ground fowl, cockatoos and other colorful birds.
List of the 22 birds included:
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The tropical forests of Northern Oceania (excluding rainforests, that will be the next pack) feature lots of small and colorful birds that are quite common in zoos with species of lorikeets for example being very popular avairy sights. Their unique bright feathers easily make a colorful aviary especially when combined with multiple species - there are 8 included in this pack allowing for mixed lorikeet aviaries. Apart from lorikeets, there are a variety of parrots, pigeons/doves, ground fowl, cockatoos and other colorful birds.
List of the 22 birds included:
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Red-collared Lorikeet
- Little Lorikeet
- Red Lory
- Palm Cockatoo
- Eclectus Parrot
- Princess Parrot
- Double-eyed Fig Parrot
- Red-throated Parrotfinch
- Noisy Pitta
- Victoria's Riflebird
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl
- Papuan Mountain Pigeon
- Red-bellied Fruit Dove
- White-breasted Ground Dove
- Pheasant Coucal
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Black-capped Lory
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Coconut Lorikeet
- Olive-headed Lorikeet
- Citron-crested Cockatoo
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Oceania Series - Rainforest Birds
The second and larger addition to the tropical scene for oceania birds is the rainforest featuring even more birds than the tropical forest pack. 34 birds from the far eastern indonesian islands to southeast australia and possibly even tasmania featuring many colorful birds such as birds of paradise, fruit doves, bowerbirds and even a hornbill. The rainforests of oceania are quite diverse with the pack covering the tropical lowland forests, montane rainforests and the temperate rainforests of australia. Combined with the tropical forest pack, an amazing choice of 56 tropical birds for oceania alone.
The rainforests pack includes:
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The second and larger addition to the tropical scene for oceania birds is the rainforest featuring even more birds than the tropical forest pack. 34 birds from the far eastern indonesian islands to southeast australia and possibly even tasmania featuring many colorful birds such as birds of paradise, fruit doves, bowerbirds and even a hornbill. The rainforests of oceania are quite diverse with the pack covering the tropical lowland forests, montane rainforests and the temperate rainforests of australia. Combined with the tropical forest pack, an amazing choice of 56 tropical birds for oceania alone.
The rainforests pack includes:
- Superb Fruit Dove
- Torresian Imperial Pigeon
- Wompoo Fruit Dove
- Wonga Pigeon
- Paradise Riflebird
- Blyth's Hornbill
- Spotted Catbird
- Satin Bowerbird
- Yellow-faced Myna
- Raggiana Bird Of Paradise
- Greater Bird Of Paradise
- King Bird Of Paradise
- Red Bird Of Paradise
- Australasian Figbird
- Brown oo-dove
- Regent Bowerbird
- Flame Bowerbird
- Rose-crowned Fruit Dove
- Eastern Whipbird
- White-bellied ooshrike
- Victoria Crowned Pigeon
- Western Crowned Pigeon
- Red Satinbird
- Superb Lyrebird
- Paradise Kingfisher
- Azure Kingfisher
- Pesquet's Parrot
- Blue-faced Parrotfinch
- Hooded Pitohui
- Beautiful Fruit Dove
- Metallic Starling
- Cinnamon Ground Dove
- Pheasant Pigeon
- Australian King Parrot
Steam Workshop::Oceania Rainforest Birds - Birds of the World
May I request Pigeons and Doves? They are my most favorite birds
I'm including a good choice of pigeons and doves in the appropriate packs for every continentMay I request Pigeons and Doves? They are my most favorite birds
Currently Oceania (the series of packs I'm currently on) has some colorful fruit doves and mostly brown colored pigeons.Your project is cool because its a way to include some species that are not in game officially. Unlike mods, however, we can showcase them on this forum. Which is pretty awesome!I'm including a good choice of pigeons and doves in the appropriate packs for every continent
Oceania Series - Grassland Birds
The arid pack for oceania birds features largely on desert birds but does touch on some grassland birds however a need for a dedicated grassland pack was also needed as many well known australian aviary birds also come from grassland habitats. Making an australian aviary without the likes of the gouldian finch or zebra finch wouldn't feel as complete so a 14 bird pack full of brightly colored finches, more grassland camouflaged birds like the Malleefowl and the unique australian brushturkey.
For those wondering, we are about half way through the total number of oceania series birds with a total of 81 birds so far. 5 more packs full of birds will bring the temperate, wetland and aquatic birds to oceania and finally get some birds for new zealand which hasn't seen many birds included yet.
List of the grassland birds:
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The arid pack for oceania birds features largely on desert birds but does touch on some grassland birds however a need for a dedicated grassland pack was also needed as many well known australian aviary birds also come from grassland habitats. Making an australian aviary without the likes of the gouldian finch or zebra finch wouldn't feel as complete so a 14 bird pack full of brightly colored finches, more grassland camouflaged birds like the Malleefowl and the unique australian brushturkey.
For those wondering, we are about half way through the total number of oceania series birds with a total of 81 birds so far. 5 more packs full of birds will bring the temperate, wetland and aquatic birds to oceania and finally get some birds for new zealand which hasn't seen many birds included yet.
List of the grassland birds:
- Australian Pipit
- Crimson Chat
- White-winged Fairywren
- Malleefowl
- Hooded parrot
- Australian Brushturkey
- Olive-backed Oriole
- Australian Magpie
- Diamond Firetail
- Double-barred Finch
- Australian Zebra Finch
- Gouldian Finch
- Eastern Rosella
- White-eared Honeyeater
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Oceania Series - Woodland Birds
New zealand and other temperate locations throughout Oceania finally get some birds in the oceania series, the woodland pack brings 32 birds from temperate forests such as the laughing kookaburra, tawny frogmouth, eastern yellow robin and many new zealand birds. While new zealand doesn't seem to have many birds in captivity compared to australia or papua new guinea, new zealand will be further boosted in the remaining packs where the "big name" birds will arrive in the endangered birds pack which will be the last pack for oceania.
Total list of birds in this pack:
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New zealand and other temperate locations throughout Oceania finally get some birds in the oceania series, the woodland pack brings 32 birds from temperate forests such as the laughing kookaburra, tawny frogmouth, eastern yellow robin and many new zealand birds. While new zealand doesn't seem to have many birds in captivity compared to australia or papua new guinea, new zealand will be further boosted in the remaining packs where the "big name" birds will arrive in the endangered birds pack which will be the last pack for oceania.
Total list of birds in this pack:
- Tui
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Common Bronzewing
- Magpie-lark
- Galah Cockatoo
- Superb Parrot
- Striped Honeyeater
- Glossy Black Cockatoo
- Superb Fairywren
- Silvereye
- Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Grey Fantail
- Singing Honeyeater
- Welcome Swallow
- Speckled Warbler
- New Zealand kaka
- Weka
- Bell Miner
- New Zealand Pigeon
- New Zealand Bellbird
- Eastern Yellow Robin
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Red-crowned Parakeet
- Rufous Whistler
- Noisy Miner
- Grey-crowned Babbler
- Red Wattlebird
- Crimson Rosella
- New Holland Honeyeater
- Tomtit
Steam Workshop::Oceania Woodland Birds - Birds of the World
Update on the birds of the world
As I have returned to my prop building with the reptile packs, I have also revised how to do the whole worldwide coverage of birds since there is so many of them. The first thing I did was rebuild the entire list of birds of the world using as many major zoo holdings in the usa to gauge the average coverage of birds since that is really my only reliable way with species lists. However since basically no zoo keeps european birds apart from the atlantic puffin and eurasian oystercatcher, the european lineup is my own work.
The second and most important part was restructuring how I order the blueprints in, making all oceania bird packs is great for oceania players, but doing that could mean it could be a year or 2 to reach say north america or europe so a change was needed. So the change was ditching the continent series and moving to make the key biome pack for each continent going through every continent then do it again with the second batch and so on. If anyone wants to know what is coming up for round 1, I will write below in order of the blueprints:
First up is asia, my asian snakes pack is by far the most popular pack of the static reptiles collection so starting with a large selection of asian birds sounds a good idea to kickstart the birds of the world packs again. The biome for asia in round 1 will be tropical forests (which includes all types of tropical forest), 30 birds from south and southeast asia including popular birds like the nicobar pigeon, bali myna, great hornbill and asian fairy bluebird.
Second is africa, most likely the single most important birds of the world pack for the african grasslands. The largest pack at 34 birds was not easy to limit it to such, the orginal list was 55 , the same as drac's final bird pack which is insanely laggy to place down with thousands upon thousands of pieces. So 34 birds includes a wide range of birds like the kori bustard, superb starling, southern ground hornbill, and lilac breasted roller.
Third, south america. The tropical forest biome fits south america great with a lot of must have birds found here. We can expect the blue and yellow macaw, sunbittern, andean c* of the rock, turquoise tanager, and green aracari in a 20 bird pack.
Next will be europe, since europe suffers really badly in zoo representation, the coastal pack will be chosen as a change. The coastal pack features a choice of 10 birds found on the coastlines of europe including the iconic atlantic puffin, the herring gull, dunlin and common murre (common guillemot is what I would call it).
North america is left then, for another change lets look at the arid birds of north america with a focus on the southwest and north mexico. A 10 bird pack including the greater roadrunner, Gambel's quail, cactus wren and Gila woodpecker.
I know also oceania needs it remaining 2 packs - coastal and wetland birds which I will include at some point. For me, these birds are likely never going to be added to a zoo except the masked lapwing so motivation isn't the strongest compared to the other packs.
As I have returned to my prop building with the reptile packs, I have also revised how to do the whole worldwide coverage of birds since there is so many of them. The first thing I did was rebuild the entire list of birds of the world using as many major zoo holdings in the usa to gauge the average coverage of birds since that is really my only reliable way with species lists. However since basically no zoo keeps european birds apart from the atlantic puffin and eurasian oystercatcher, the european lineup is my own work.
The second and most important part was restructuring how I order the blueprints in, making all oceania bird packs is great for oceania players, but doing that could mean it could be a year or 2 to reach say north america or europe so a change was needed. So the change was ditching the continent series and moving to make the key biome pack for each continent going through every continent then do it again with the second batch and so on. If anyone wants to know what is coming up for round 1, I will write below in order of the blueprints:
First up is asia, my asian snakes pack is by far the most popular pack of the static reptiles collection so starting with a large selection of asian birds sounds a good idea to kickstart the birds of the world packs again. The biome for asia in round 1 will be tropical forests (which includes all types of tropical forest), 30 birds from south and southeast asia including popular birds like the nicobar pigeon, bali myna, great hornbill and asian fairy bluebird.
- Pied Imperial Pigeon
- Green Imperial Pigeon
- Chinese bamboo Partridge
- Bali Myna
- Common Emerald Dove
- Western Hooded Pitta
- Brahminy Starling
- Oriental Pied Hornbill
- Storms Stork
- Knobbed Hornbill
- Great Hornbill
- Red Junglefowl
- Grosbeak Starling
- Wreathed Hornbill
- Chinese hwamei
- Asian Fairy Bluebird
- White Rumped Shama
- Luzon Bleeding Heart
- Nicobar Pigeon
- White Crowned Hornbill
- Maleo
- Chestnut Breasted Malkoha
- Sulawesi Ground Dove
- Green Broadbill
- Bornean Bristlehead
- Sumatran laughingthrush
- Red Breasted Partridge
- Rhinoceros Hornbill
- Red Bearded Bee Eater
- Bornean Green Magpie
Second is africa, most likely the single most important birds of the world pack for the african grasslands. The largest pack at 34 birds was not easy to limit it to such, the orginal list was 55
, the same as drac's final bird pack which is insanely laggy to place down with thousands upon thousands of pieces. So 34 birds includes a wide range of birds like the kori bustard, superb starling, southern ground hornbill, and lilac breasted roller.- Kori Bustard
- Village Weaver
- Red Collared Widowbird
- Oriole Warbler
- Speckled Mousebird
- Superb Starling
- Taveta Golden Weaver
- Violet Turaco
- Hadada Ibis
- White Headed Buffalo Weaver
- Spotted Thick Knee
- Southern Red Bishop
- Yellow Crowned Bishop
- Chestnut Weaver
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
- Crested Coua
- Red Billed Hornbill
- Crested Guineafowl
- Golden Breasted Starling
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Blue Bellied Roller
- Common Bulbul
- Emerald Starling
- Amethyst Starling
- Yellow Fronted Canary
- Lilac Breasted Roller
- Blue Crane
- Bruce's Green Pigeon
- Von der Decken's Hornbill
- Red and Yellow barbet
- White fronted bee eater
- Northern Carmine Bee eater
- Abdim's Stork
- Southern Ground Hornbill
Third, south america. The tropical forest biome fits south america great with a lot of must have birds found here. We can expect the blue and yellow macaw, sunbittern, andean c* of the rock, turquoise tanager, and green aracari in a 20 bird pack.
- Blue and yellow macaw
- green aracari
- Andean c* of the rock
- Sunbittern
- Blue gray Tanager
- Military Macaw
- Yellow Headed Amazon
- Blue Headed Amazon
- Blue and yellow tanager
- Spotted tanager
- Blue necked tanager
- Turquoise Tanager
- Venezuelan Troupial
- Blue Dacnis
- Bananaquit
- Golden Headed Quetzal
- Green Honey Creeper
- Violaceous Euphonia
- Yellow Rumped Cacique
- Sun Conure
Next will be europe, since europe suffers really badly in zoo representation, the coastal pack will be chosen as a change. The coastal pack features a choice of 10 birds found on the coastlines of europe including the iconic atlantic puffin, the herring gull, dunlin and common murre (common guillemot is what I would call it).
- Atlantic Puffin
- Common Murre / Common Guillemot
- Razorbill
- Great Cormorant
- Greater Black Backed Gull
- European Herring Gull
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Dunlin
- Red Knot
- Sandpiper
North america is left then, for another change lets look at the arid birds of north america with a focus on the southwest and north mexico. A 10 bird pack including the greater roadrunner, Gambel's quail, cactus wren and Gila woodpecker.
- Greater Roadrunner
- Gambel's Quail
- White Winged Dove
- Cactus wren
- Curve Billed Thrasher
- Gila Woodpecker
- Scott's Oriole
- Verdin
- Phainopepla
- Glided Flicker
I know also oceania needs it remaining 2 packs - coastal and wetland birds which I will include at some point. For me, these birds are likely never going to be added to a zoo except the masked lapwing so motivation isn't the strongest compared to the other packs.
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Alright scrap that last post idea, that is never happening as I have seriously revised (and returned) the entire birds of the world collection. Instead of planning to make 700+ bird species to cover virtually every possible zoo species, I want to make the common and unique bird species that are present in zoos and birds that round out each continent which helps the "of the world" part of this collection. This will be limiting each continent to a max of 50 birds.
Making lots of oceania bird packs are great for oceania players but motivation is non existant for me to continue that and people do want to see a wide range of asian, african and south american birds. The biggest change I decided to make was the development pack.
The development pack is a regularly updated blueprint that allows everyone to use the latest built birds in a random collection. Birds will be added and removed from the development pack as when I reach a certain number of a continent's birds those will become their own pack.
What birds have been made so far?
Making lots of oceania bird packs are great for oceania players but motivation is non existant for me to continue that and people do want to see a wide range of asian, african and south american birds. The biggest change I decided to make was the development pack.
The development pack is a regularly updated blueprint that allows everyone to use the latest built birds in a random collection. Birds will be added and removed from the development pack as when I reach a certain number of a continent's birds those will become their own pack.
What birds have been made so far?
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- Blacksmith Lapwing
- Masked Lapwing
- Greater Roadrunner
- Violet Turaco
- African Pygmy Goose
- Blue and Yellow Macaw
- Luzon Bleeding Heart
- Green Imperial Pigeon
- Nicobar Pigeon
- Black Crake
- Hamerkop
- Hadada Ibis
- Sunbittern
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- Blue Gray Tanager
If anyone does want any specific bird props, do leave a comment either here or on my steam workshop page. I will be finalising the entire birds of the world collection this week and will aim to complete it by next spring by the very latest.
I think a Red-breasted Goose would be cute 
Already made one in my geese pack
Steam Workshop::Geese - Birds of the World
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Yay they're adorable!