Weekly community poll!! I recently went to the Oregon Zoo and was absolutely captivated by the birds in their African wetlands exhibit (a sentence that is very alluring to the ladies on dating apps, I have no doubt). But they had so many birds together - TWO kinds of flamingos, African spoonbills, bald ibises, white faced whistling ducks, and more.
What mixed, bird-themed exhibit would YOU like to do the most in Planet Zoo?
For me, going off the mechanics in-game, the American South wetlands with ducks, spoonbills, and pelicans would be a DREAM.
How about
YOU?
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I went to the Oregon Zoo last year in August for the first time and I loved seeing greater and lesser flamingos mixed together. When I visited, I didn’t see any of the fulvous or white-faced whistling-ducks (though I did see a very large, leusitic mallard) but did see the African spoonbill and waldrapp (northern bald) ibises. It was a very nice African-themed walkthrough aviary.
Fun fact: Colombia has the most species of birds. South America’s diversity in Planet Zoo is low because of the exclusion of birds and also for their reptiles and amphibians. SOOOO.. I would want to do a
Latin American-themed aviary set up.
WITH THE GAME'S CURRENT MECHANICS: the only Latin American birds I would personally want to see in the game are the American flamingo; either the American white, brown, or Peruvian pelican; the Magellanic and southern rockhopper penguins; great and/or blue-billed curassow, and the white-faced and fulvous whistling-ducks; blue-winged, Puna, and ringed teal; and red shoveler.
IF THE GAME ADDS FLYING BIRDS / AN AVIARY MECHANIC: I would include Amazon parrots and macaws, Amazonian motmot, roseate spoonbill, scarlet ibis, toucans and araçaris, caciques and oropendolas, and the Inca tern and grey gull.
Africa is the next logical set, and their bird roster is a lot more conducive to the game's current mechanics.
WITH THE GAME'S CURRENT MECHANICS: It is criminal that they did include the East African grey crowned-crane in the game. Other great and iconic African species would be the marabou and saddle-billed storks; the great white and/or pink-backed pelican; either the Abyssinian or southern ground-hornbill, the secretarybird, kori bustard, the goliath heron, the white-breasted cormorant, and the aforementioned fulvous and whistling-ducks also fit in the Africa roster since they are also found across Sub-Saharan Africa AND Madagascar. I'd also like to see the lesser flamingo and the Stanley's/blue crane also included.
IF THE GAME ADDS FLYING BIRDS / AN AVIARY MECHANIC: I would include the African grey parrot, the hamerkop, the shoebill; turacos, blue-bellied and lilac-breasted rollers, Taveta and white-headed buffalo-weavers; emerald, golden-breasted, purple, superb, and violet-backed starlings; northern bald ibis; eastern yellow-billed, northern red-billed, and/or Von der Decken's hornbill; and the fan favorite African sacred ibis.