A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes which make up half of all bird species in the world. The sheer diversity of passerines is simply unbelievable in terms of plumage colour. As perching birds, passerines generally have the same arrangement of toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching.
This is important for Frontier as we know they like to use a common rig to represent as many animals as possible for efficiency's sake. With the generic passerine rig (and slight modifications), one can literally create dozens of species with relatively little effort.
Thus the base game will have birds and aviaries, but it will leave out popular larger birds of different rigs like: lorikeets, parrots, owls, hornbills, birds of paradise, pigeons, doves, turacos, birds of prey. I also omitted other popular small birds from North America like the cardinal, blue jay, north american orioles, but also popular Asian species like the bali myna, java sparrow, Luzon bleeding-heart. No hummingbirds, cocks-of-the-rock, gouldian finch, quetzal, budgies, canaries which will all be saved for DLC. The list below offers diversity both geographically and biome-wise and only includes passerines found in captivity. I hope we get as many of these as possible as we are unlikely to get them in DLCs as these passerine species probably wouldn't be iconic enough to warrant inclusion. But for the base game, I hope Frontier goes full out on passerines.
1) European goldfinch (Europe, North Africa, western/central Asia)
2) Eurasian bullfinch (Europe, North/Central Asia, Japan)
3) Long-tailed Finch (Northern Australia)
4) Thick-billed euphonia (South America)
5) Common linnet (Europe, Central Asia, North Africa)
6) Japanese grosbeak (East Asia)
1) Yellow-faced myna (New Guinea)
2) Common Hill myna (India/SE Asia)
1) Black-naped oriole (Asia)
2) Eurasian Golden Oriole (Europe, Middle East)
1) Purple glossy-starling (Africa)
2) Golden-breasted starling (Africa)
3) Superb starling (Africa)
4) Emerald starling (Africa)
5) Amethyst starling (Africa)
1) White-crested laughingthrush (South and SE Asia)
2) Blue-crowned laughingthrush (China)
1) Blue dacnis (South America)
2) Red-legged honeycreeper (Central/South America)
3) Paradise tanager (South America)
4) Flame-faced tanager (South America)
5) Blue-necked tanager (South America)
6) Silver-beaked tanager (South America)
7) Brazilian tanager (South America)
General Passerines
1) Scarlet-headed blackbird (South America)
2) Bare-necked umbrellabird (Central America)
3) Inca Jay (South America)
4) Emei Shan liocichla (China)
5) Red-whiskered bulbul (Asia)
6) Red-billed leiothrix (Asia)
7) Snowy-crowned robin-chat (Africa)
8) Great kiskadee (Americas)
9) Chestnut-backed thrush (SE Asia)
10) Blue-winged pitta (Asia)
11) Yellow-crowned gonolek (Africa)
12) Madagascar fody (Madagascar)
13) Black-headed sibia (China/SE Asia)
14) Spangled cotinga (South America)
15) Black-necked weaver (Africa)
16) Asian fairy-bluebird (India/SE Asia)
17) White-rumped shama (India/SE Asia)
18) White-breasted woodswallow (SE Asia/Australia)[/ISPOILER]
This is important for Frontier as we know they like to use a common rig to represent as many animals as possible for efficiency's sake. With the generic passerine rig (and slight modifications), one can literally create dozens of species with relatively little effort.
Thus the base game will have birds and aviaries, but it will leave out popular larger birds of different rigs like: lorikeets, parrots, owls, hornbills, birds of paradise, pigeons, doves, turacos, birds of prey. I also omitted other popular small birds from North America like the cardinal, blue jay, north american orioles, but also popular Asian species like the bali myna, java sparrow, Luzon bleeding-heart. No hummingbirds, cocks-of-the-rock, gouldian finch, quetzal, budgies, canaries which will all be saved for DLC. The list below offers diversity both geographically and biome-wise and only includes passerines found in captivity. I hope we get as many of these as possible as we are unlikely to get them in DLCs as these passerine species probably wouldn't be iconic enough to warrant inclusion. But for the base game, I hope Frontier goes full out on passerines.
1) European goldfinch (Europe, North Africa, western/central Asia)
2) Eurasian bullfinch (Europe, North/Central Asia, Japan)
3) Long-tailed Finch (Northern Australia)
4) Thick-billed euphonia (South America)
5) Common linnet (Europe, Central Asia, North Africa)
6) Japanese grosbeak (East Asia)
1) Yellow-faced myna (New Guinea)
2) Common Hill myna (India/SE Asia)
1) Black-naped oriole (Asia)
2) Eurasian Golden Oriole (Europe, Middle East)
1) Purple glossy-starling (Africa)
2) Golden-breasted starling (Africa)
3) Superb starling (Africa)
4) Emerald starling (Africa)
5) Amethyst starling (Africa)
1) White-crested laughingthrush (South and SE Asia)
2) Blue-crowned laughingthrush (China)
1) Blue dacnis (South America)
2) Red-legged honeycreeper (Central/South America)
3) Paradise tanager (South America)
4) Flame-faced tanager (South America)
5) Blue-necked tanager (South America)
6) Silver-beaked tanager (South America)
7) Brazilian tanager (South America)
General Passerines
1) Scarlet-headed blackbird (South America)
2) Bare-necked umbrellabird (Central America)
3) Inca Jay (South America)
4) Emei Shan liocichla (China)
5) Red-whiskered bulbul (Asia)
6) Red-billed leiothrix (Asia)
7) Snowy-crowned robin-chat (Africa)
8) Great kiskadee (Americas)
9) Chestnut-backed thrush (SE Asia)
10) Blue-winged pitta (Asia)
11) Yellow-crowned gonolek (Africa)
12) Madagascar fody (Madagascar)
13) Black-headed sibia (China/SE Asia)
14) Spangled cotinga (South America)
15) Black-necked weaver (Africa)
16) Asian fairy-bluebird (India/SE Asia)
17) White-rumped shama (India/SE Asia)
18) White-breasted woodswallow (SE Asia/Australia)[/ISPOILER]
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