Sorry for the double post.
Although I said that, I think it is only fair for the magpie goose to stay in the goose category, similar to ducks.
The Ultimate, Essential Bird Meta-Wishlist (Habitat AND Aviary)
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Sorry for the double post.
Although I said that, I think it is only fair for the magpie goose to stay in the goose category, similar to ducks.
Hey all! Very slow week with only one new contributor so I'll update the list when we get more traction.
In the mean time, weekly community question, what's your personal ranking of the 8 birds currently in game? Reasoning can be anything, your personal preference, the quality of the animal in-game, most fun to build for, whatever you like.
Here are mine, mind you I love all of them:
1. King Penguin - you come at the King, you best not miss
2. Red-Crowned Crane - cold day in the inferno when I don't stand by my fellow redheads
3. Greater Flamingo - the most fabulous animals in the whole game
4. Ostrich - "free to run around all day"
5. African Penguin - cute af
6. Indian Peacock - they may poop everything, everywhere all at once, breed like rabbits, and steal guests' french fries, but I love them
7. Emu - it's the neck extended running for me (simultaneously a good and bad thing)
8. Cassowary - Breathtakingly gorgeous - one of the most beautiful animals in-game, but scare the bejesus out of me
In the mean time, weekly community question, what's your personal ranking of the 8 birds currently in game? Reasoning can be anything, your personal preference, the quality of the animal in-game, most fun to build for, whatever you like.
Here are mine, mind you I love all of them:
1. King Penguin - you come at the King, you best not miss
2. Red-Crowned Crane - cold day in the inferno when I don't stand by my fellow redheads
3. Greater Flamingo - the most fabulous animals in the whole game
4. Ostrich - "free to run around all day"
5. African Penguin - cute af
6. Indian Peacock - they may poop everything, everywhere all at once, breed like rabbits, and steal guests' french fries, but I love them
7. Emu - it's the neck extended running for me (simultaneously a good and bad thing)
8. Cassowary - Breathtakingly gorgeous - one of the most beautiful animals in-game, but scare the bejesus out of me
Birds. Avians. Pájaros. Let's begin:
- Southern cassowary - when I started playing back in November 2020, the Australia pack was the newest pack at the time. When I saw the roster, I was shocked that the cassowary was part of it and I got super excited about it. Their sounds are amazing, their look is cool, everything about them
- Red-crowned crane - while at 1st I didn't care too much, these have grown on me and I use them often when I need a space to fill and can't think of anything to do, specifically Japanese gardens
- Indian peafowl - peafowl are beautiful birds, and I love to have little gardens where the peafowl roam. I particularly love it when males display their feathers
- Greater flamingo - I love to have a lush pond where the flamingos can be. I only wish we had a 2nd flamingo species
- African penguin - these little guys are fantastic to have. I love everything about them
- King penguin - the sounds they make are cool to hear. I love to hear the different animal sounds in-game, especially with a hug flock of king penguins
- Emu - I don't use them often and likely won't unless I want an area dedicated to Australia, which I rarely do nowadays. However, nice bird, nice model
- Common ostrich - my least favorite, but that doesn't mean I dislike them. I rarely have a habitat dedicated to just the. For me, they only work if placed alongside other African animals, specifically giraffes and zebras
1. Southern Cassowary: wonderfull design. Colorful and unique looking bird. Now that we got the emu i'm glad it was included in the Australia pack instead of it.
2. Indian peafowl: who doesn't like peacocks? They are beautifull, colorful and their tail fan animations and calls makes it distinct enough from the other birds. Essential a free roaming and walkthrough species in a lot of zoos.
3. African penguin: penguins are cute and fun to play with. Love their animations. The african one i think is more versitile than the King penguin being from a temperate biome and smaller in size.
4. Red crowned crane: i love cranes. This one is not my favorite species but still very common and great for asian sections. Plus is not a another ratite which is a plus.
5. Common ostrich: a staple and needed bird for african savannah exhibits. Biggest land dwelling bird. Great model and animations even for base game standards.
6. Emu: as equally important as the ostrich but for australian enclosures. Their absence was felt until we got them for the game. Nice model. Useful for walkthrough and mixed exhibits.
7. King penguin: another penguin. I don't use it as much because i don't usually make cold enclosed habitats. Is easier to build for african penguins. But they are beautifully designed non the less and cute to watch.
8. Greater flamingo: i like flamingos in real life and they are the usual entrance area exhibit in zoos, and versatile for african sections but to me is the most boring bird in game.
2. Indian peafowl: who doesn't like peacocks? They are beautifull, colorful and their tail fan animations and calls makes it distinct enough from the other birds. Essential a free roaming and walkthrough species in a lot of zoos.
3. African penguin: penguins are cute and fun to play with. Love their animations. The african one i think is more versitile than the King penguin being from a temperate biome and smaller in size.
4. Red crowned crane: i love cranes. This one is not my favorite species but still very common and great for asian sections. Plus is not a another ratite which is a plus.
5. Common ostrich: a staple and needed bird for african savannah exhibits. Biggest land dwelling bird. Great model and animations even for base game standards.
6. Emu: as equally important as the ostrich but for australian enclosures. Their absence was felt until we got them for the game. Nice model. Useful for walkthrough and mixed exhibits.
7. King penguin: another penguin. I don't use it as much because i don't usually make cold enclosed habitats. Is easier to build for african penguins. But they are beautifully designed non the less and cute to watch.
8. Greater flamingo: i like flamingos in real life and they are the usual entrance area exhibit in zoos, and versatile for african sections but to me is the most boring bird in game.
1. African penguin - my most used one. Such a staple zoo animal.
2. Cassowary - I just love them.
3. Emu - less colorful Cassowary.
4. Indian peafowl - obvious great inclusion
5. King penguin - only anatarctic animal
6. Crowned Crane - amazing for any Japanese section due to old folklore.
7. Flamingo - would've preffered an American.
8. Ostrich - not bad, just like the other more.
A countdown! From least favorite to most!
8. Indian Peafowl. Now perma-banned from my Franchise Zoos due to for the troublemakers they are. Peafoul is right. They're also super noisy. I got over the spread of the feathers animation very quickly.
(very very large gap)
7. Flamingo - very interesting to watch, but can be a handful to handle cleanliness wise. That's the main reason they're not higher on the list.
6. Red Crowned Crane - it's okay, but much of my excitement was for the potential they opened for more habitat birds besides Ratites and Penguins..........still.....waiting....for...this...
(small gap)
5. Ostrich - another fun to watch but may also have lost its "shine" so to speak by being in the game from the start...it's still the highest of the base game birds.
4. King Penguin - a moot point now, but this is should have been in the base game. Very taken with them from the start. They're still fun to watch. I sometimes struggle with the temperatures for them, and my habitats look really boring since they're all mostly snow.
3. Emu - really glad we got them and their running animations are fun to watch. Our australia zoos became much more complete after they were added. Visually they look great. Still something missing to get them higher than this spot.
2. Southern Cassowary - And that something the Emu lacks...was color. the SC are gorgeous and stand out so much in the animal roster. Really no complaints against them at all. But...
1. African Penguin - Everything I really love about the King Penguin, less the problems that I encounter with them due to more temperature tolerance. I love making habitats for them as well. They're definitely the go-to penguin for me. I realize that some people were unhappy with their addition and that's fine, for me, this specific species was still much wanted.
None of these would measure up well to things like the Bald Eagle, Toucan, Macaws (or the Shoebill even because DINObirb). But overall I like 7 of the 8 birds we have.
Honestly I think the Cassowary is more of a dinobird then the shoebill. Those guys are straight outta some Jurassic park movie.A countdown! From least favorite to most!
8. Indian Peafowl. Now perma-banned from my Franchise Zoos due to for the troublemakers they are. Peafoul is right. They're also super noisy. I got over the spread of the feathers animation very quickly.
(very very large gap)
7. Flamingo - very interesting to watch, but can be a handful to handle cleanliness wise. That's the main reason they're not higher on the list.
6. Red Crowned Crane - it's okay, but much of my excitement was for the potential they opened for more habitat birds besides Ratites and Penguins..........still.....waiting....for...this...
(small gap)
5. Ostrich - another fun to watch but may also have lost its "shine" so to speak by being in the game from the start...it's still the highest of the base game birds.
4. King Penguin - a moot point now, but this is should have been in the base game. Very taken with them from the start. They're still fun to watch. I sometimes struggle with the temperatures for them, and my habitats look really boring since they're all mostly snow.
3. Emu - really glad we got them and their running animations are fun to watch. Our australia zoos became much more complete after they were added. Visually they look great. Still something missing to get them higher than this spot.
2. Southern Cassowary - And that something the Emu lacks...was color. the SC are gorgeous and stand out so much in the animal roster. Really no complaints against them at all. But...
1. African Penguin - Everything I really love about the King Penguin, less the problems that I encounter with them due to more temperature tolerance. I love making habitats for them as well. They're definitely the go-to penguin for me. I realize that some people were unhappy with their addition and that's fine, for me, this specific species was still much wanted.
None of these would measure up well to things like the Bald Eagle, Toucan, Macaws (or the Shoebill even because DINObirb). But overall I like 7 of the 8 birds we have.
Since bird IS THE WORD!
- Great White Pelican
- "Eastern" Wild Turkey
- North Island Brown Kiwi
- Secretary-bird
- Scarlet Ibis
- Victoria Crowned Pigeon
- Southern Rockhopper Penguin
- Shoebill
- Greater Rhea
- "Greater" Roadrunner
- Blue"-"and"-"Yellow Macaw
- Toco Toucan
- Rüppell's Vulture
- Snowy Owl
- Bald Eagle
- Peregrine Falcon
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Scarlet Macaw
- Keel-Billed Toucan
- Andean Condor
- Eurasian Eagle-Owl
- Golden Eagle
- Budgerigar
- Common Raven
- Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
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List has been updated!
Things are more or less the same, but Vultures saw a big win, dethroning pelicans into the Top 5. The Rockhopper Penguin has the distinction of being voting in by each new particpant.
Unfortunately, it looks like we'll fall short of the goal of over 100 participants by DLC time, which expected to arriving soon. Fingers crossed for some feathers!
With that said, let's still fun!
Weekly Community poll time:
Who are some of your favorite fictional/cartoon birds? Would their Planet Zoo counterpart be a fun addition to your virtual zoos?
This may surprise some of you - especially considering my username, but I love the ducks. I think I'll take Daffy over Donald, but Ducktales is masterpiece.
As for more traditional "zoo" birds, there is no competition. The GOAT below would be a GREAT addition to PZ world.
Things are more or less the same, but Vultures saw a big win, dethroning pelicans into the Top 5. The Rockhopper Penguin has the distinction of being voting in by each new particpant.
Unfortunately, it looks like we'll fall short of the goal of over 100 participants by DLC time, which expected to arriving soon. Fingers crossed for some feathers!
With that said, let's still fun!
Weekly Community poll time:
Who are some of your favorite fictional/cartoon birds? Would their Planet Zoo counterpart be a fun addition to your virtual zoos?
This may surprise some of you - especially considering my username, but I love the ducks. I think I'll take Daffy over Donald, but Ducktales is masterpiece.
As for more traditional "zoo" birds, there is no competition. The GOAT below would be a GREAT addition to PZ world.
Daffy is also up there for me. I preferred the kinda calm-ish, cunning Daffy that would outsmart his opponents compared to the crazy "woo hoo woo hoo woo hoo" Daffy...
Ok, I never really liked the Roadrunner. The character seems a little too mean spirited at times, going outta his way to harm Wile E. Coyote (my favorite character, but this is about birds)
I actually don't know that many fictional birds, to be honest. It's kinda hard to think. Because not all would work, like Woody Woodpecker.
I dunno, I guess the Rio cast: Nico, Pedro, Blue & Jewel, Rafael, Nigel, Felipe. Those would be the perfect birds for the game
So fun fact about Rio! I'm a tour guide at the Bronx Zoo, and a lot of our birds were used as reference for Rio!
Prior to its closure, Blue Sky Studios - the animation company behind Rio (also the Ice Age series, The Peanuts Movie, Robots, etc) - was the only East Coast based major animation studio in the US. So they'd make a quick trip to New York and come to the zoo and study the birds for the animation process.
In particular, our cockatoo Asia - whose lived at the zoo since the 1970s - was the reference for Nigel.
Just noticed this has been expanded to 25, so 10 extra species for me!
16. Burrowing Owl
17. Great grey owl
18. Cattle egret
19. Black Swan
20. Mandarin
21. Mute Swan
22. Kiwi sp.
23. Shoebill
24. Red-breasted goose
25. Secretary bird
Ok, that's cool, you probably have one of the best jobs out there. And you just opened a whole lotta memories with Robots
Wow, a celebrity bird. Does he/she KO people too?
I like Plimpton from the Dolittle movie a few years back. I love his ridiculous bushy eyebrows and his panic attacks and attitude is so me.
Other honorable birds include:
Daffy and Zazu. I did wear a Zazu
Crane from King Fu Panda. He just looked cool.
Floyd the Flamingo from some obscure European show called bird squad. I love how he showed off his teeth at the end of each episode.
This one is a bit controversial since we never were taught this part of US history in school (because it was a Turkish school in Turkey which obviously didn’t teach US history), but as a kid I loved the crows from Dumbo. Now my perception of them have been ruined forever but it doesn’t change the fact that I loved them as a kid who didn’t knew of the JCr era.
How did I forget about him? He was great
I visited the Bronx Zoo last May when I graduated from undergrad. It’s bird world and seabird house were some of the things that got me on the “need birds” grind for this forum. They were possibly some of my favorite places in the zoo, which made me more sad the game had such terrible bird representation. :/
Those are two of my favorite exhibits! I am planning a Bronx recreation down the line and needless to say, it's quite a challenge with such lack of avian representatives.
With that said, we do have ostriches, red crowned cranes, emus, and the infamously free roaming peacocks - without exaggeration, they are well over 100 peacocks in the Bronx.
The greater flamingo and African penguins are perfectly suitable replacement for the American and Chilean flamingos, and the Mallegenic penguin colony of the Sea Bird Aviary.
Bird wishislt, huh? I see some bird fans for here, i like that 
So well, if there is an everyone's wishlist, i'll make one too:
1: Blue-and-Golden Macaw
2: Toco Tucan
3: Mallard
4: Eurasian Eagle Owl
5: North Island Brown Kiwi
6: Atlantic Puffin
7: Bald Eagle
8: Scarlet Ibis
9: Great Blue Turaco
10: Kea
11: Black Swan
12: Great White Pelican
13: Harpy Eagle
14: Shoebill
15: Eurasian Griffon Vulture
16: California Condor
17: Mandarin Duck
18: Spanish Imperial Eagle
19: Ruby-throated hummingbird
20: Grey African Parrot
21: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
22: Lovebird
23: Rainbow Lorikeet
24: Budgerigar
25: Sociable Weaver
I would want 8792138792138769213 more bird species, but I think that list is enough
. I hope I helped to the list. Let's hope to see Frontier adding more birds, we really need them 
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So well, if there is an everyone's wishlist, i'll make one too:
1: Blue-and-Golden Macaw
2: Toco Tucan
3: Mallard
4: Eurasian Eagle Owl
5: North Island Brown Kiwi
6: Atlantic Puffin
7: Bald Eagle
8: Scarlet Ibis
9: Great Blue Turaco
10: Kea
11: Black Swan
12: Great White Pelican
13: Harpy Eagle
14: Shoebill
15: Eurasian Griffon Vulture
16: California Condor
17: Mandarin Duck
18: Spanish Imperial Eagle
19: Ruby-throated hummingbird
20: Grey African Parrot
21: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
22: Lovebird
23: Rainbow Lorikeet
24: Budgerigar
25: Sociable Weaver
I would want 8792138792138769213 more bird species, but I think that list is enough
. I hope I helped to the list. Let's hope to see Frontier adding more birds, we really need them .
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2. Marabout d'Afrique
3. Vautour fauve
4. Dindon sauvage
5. Ara
6. Macareux moine
7. Ibis Rouge
8. Canard branchu
9. Canard colvert
10. Canard souchet
11. Canard sarcelle d'hiver
12. Canard Harlé huppé
13. calao terrestre
14. pintade casquée
15. Loriquet arc-en-ciel