Choose 12 aviary birds and 7 ground birds

[Orque41]

Steal:
1.bald eagle
2.Snow owl
3.Toco toucan
4. Hyacinth Macaw
5.Ara ararauna
6. Andean Condor
7. golden eagle
8. Giant Steller Eagle
9. European kingfisher
10. Monk Vulture
11. Caracara
12. Peregrine Falcon

Ground:
1.Emu
2.kiwi
3.Secretary bird
4.Red-billed Calao
5. African marabout
6. Rhea
7.White stork
8.black swan

 

[Aidan635]

Ooh, I love this! I dont really know much about birds so my picks might be a little basic but whatever...

Aviary:
1. Bald Eagle
2. Snowy Owl
3. Great Horned Owl
4. Barn Owl
5. Golden Eagle
6. Turkey Vulture
7. Andean Condor
8. Scarelt's Macaw
9. Rhinoceros Hornbill
10. African Grey Parrot
11. Toucan

Ground Dwellers:
1. African Grey Crowned Crane
2. Secretary Bird
3. Shoebill
4. Ibis
5. Pelican
6. Marabou Stork
7. Turkey

 

[SpookDoc]

Hi all! Really hope that since Planet Zoo’s amazing devs have figured out how to integrate diving that flying won’t be too far behind. I think that outside of fully aquatic animals (fish, manatees, sea turtles, etc.) flying animals are the last really impactful and game-changing thing to be added to the game. Don’t get me wrong, I would love some more terrestrial animals at some point. It’s just that animals with new mechanics intrigue me so much more! Additionally, hope that if they are added they are actual habitat animals. Exhibit boxes just wouldn’t do birds justice.

List in no particular order. (Also would have added Flying Fox instead of one of the birds, but left it out to keep my post consistent with everyone else’s)

Flying birds:

1. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
2. Harpy Eagle
3. Snowy Owl
4. Hoatzin
5. Great Indian Hornbill
6. Keel-billed or Toco Toucan
7. Scarlet Macaw
8. Atlantic or Tufted Puffin
9. Bearded Vulture
10. Golden Eagle
11. Peregrine Falcon
12. Frogmouth (any species; one of these guys definitely has the potential to be the Unsung Hero of a pack! So wonderfully weird)


Ground Birds:

1. Mandarin Duck
2. Swan or goose (any species)
3. African or Humboldt Penguin
4. Secretary Bird
5. Roadrunner
6. Guineafowl (any species)
7. Pelican (any species)
8. Crane or Stork (any species)

 

[SanRazo618]

Aviary:
1. Bald Eagle
2. Rainbow Lorikeet
3. Toco Toucan
4. Harpy Eagle
5. California Condor
6. Scarlet Macaw
7. Great Horned Owl
8. African Grey Parrot
9. Rhinoceros Hornbill
10. Peregrine Falcon
11. Atlantic Puffin
12. Hyacinth Macaw

Ground birds:
1. Secretary Bird
2. White Pelican
3. Roadrunner
4. White Swan
5. Grey Crowned Crane
6. Japanese Crane
7. Maribou Stork
8. Shoebill
9. (Extra) any small penguin
10. (Extra) Kiwi

 

[George Boggs]

Of the twelve flying birds, I have chosen five species that would need free-flying but the other seven are species that, although they are kept in aviaries, would not look out of place spending most of their time on the ground. I have also tried to choose species from six continents:

1. Ruppell's griffon vulture (Africa): Desert, Grassland - Critically Endangered
2. African sacred ibis (Africa, Asia): Aquatic, Grassland, Temperate, Tropical - Least Concern
3. Wrinkled hornbill (Asia): Tropical - Endangered
4. Mindanao bleeding-heart dove (Asia): Tropical - Vulnerable
5. Hyacinth macaw (South America): Grassland, Tropical - Vulnerable
6. Scarlet ibis (South America): Aquatic, Grassland, Tropical - Least Concern
7. Bald eagle (North America): Aquatic, Desert, Grassland, Taiga, Temperate - Least Concern
8. Greater roadrunner (North America): Desert - Least Concern
9. Black woodpecker (Asia, Europe): Taiga, Temperate - Least Concern
10. Atlantic puffin (Europe, North America): Aquatic, Temperate, Tundra - Vulnerable
11. Flame bowerbird (Oceania): Tropical - Least Concern
12. Superb lyrebird (Oceania): Temperate - Least Concern

Of the larger ground-based birds, I feel like I had to choose eight species, as there are enough good options to warrant it. Again, I have tried to choose birds from multiple continents:
1. Grey crowned crane (Africa): Aquatic, Grassland - Endangered
2. Southern ground hornbill (Africa): Grassland - Vulnerable
3. Painted stork (Asia) - Aquatic, Grassland, Tropical - Near Threatened
4. Ocellated turkey (South America): Temperate, Tropical - Near Threatened
5. Grey-winged trumpeter (South America): Tropical - Near Threatened
6. Great blue heron (North America): Aquatic, Grassland, Taiga, Temperate - Least Concern
7. Dalmatian pelican (Asia, Europe): Aquatic, Grassland, Temperate - Near Threatened
8. Australian bustard (Oceania): Desert, Grassland - Least Concern

I want more!

1. American Flamingo (Galapagos Island)
2. Chilean flamingo (Chile)
3. Lesser flamingo (Africa)
4. Mute Swan (Europe)
5. Indian Flying Fox (Asia)
6. King Eider (Asia)
7. Scarlet Macaw (South America)