The Ultimate, Essential Bird Meta-Wishlist (Habitat AND Aviary)

A very disapointing year for me. Nothing excited me in the slightless. I just got the packs with the Winter sale. The fact that the things that liked the most about the new packs were the building pieces says a lot. Some animals have grown on me (chicken, alpaca, sheep, dik dik), some i wanted (Palla's cat, markhor) but most don't feel anything about and others i think were a missed opportunity to get something else so i resent them a bit (pig, donkey, sifaka). Overall none of my most wanted animals or themes were in these packa... And other than the swan and the sloth bear i actually been feeling this since Eurasia... So it has been a complete year of no excitement for me.
 
Hey all, it's been a while and certainly less than great times irl for a lot of us, but let's focus on something fun - weekly community poll - which terrestrial bird and which aquatic bird would you like to see the most in Planet Zoo, within the current mechanics?
THEY CAN'T BE THE SAME BIRD.

For me, the terrestrial pick is one of my all-time top choices and I have absolutely no idea why it's not more popular:

BOTW-Homepage-Thumbnail_Burrowing-Owl.jpg



As for aquatic...well, what do YOU think?? 🤪 🤪
 
Hey all, it's been a while and certainly less than great times irl for a lot of us, but let's focus on something fun - weekly community poll - which terrestrial bird and which aquatic bird would you like to see the most in Planet Zoo, within the current mechanics?
THEY CAN'T BE THE SAME BIRD.

For me, the terrestrial pick is one of my all-time top choices and I have absolutely no idea why it's not more popular:

View attachment 415523


As for aquatic...well, what do YOU think?? 🤪 🤪
Terrestrial: greater rhea (i know shocker, no one was expecting that from me)

Aquatic: tough... But i'm going with a pelican because i feel like ducks work well as mods for now. We need both though and ducks are arguably more important at this point.
 
Aquatic would be the great white pelican for me. It would be a tie between the pelican and a duck, but i think the pelican would benefit more from an official version than a duck. Since as Nacho said the duck mods work pretty well.

As for terrestrial its also kind of a tie between golden pheasant and helmeted guinea fowl for me
 
Hey all, it's been a while and certainly less than great times irl for a lot of us, but let's focus on something fun - weekly community poll - which terrestrial bird and which aquatic bird would you like to see the most in Planet Zoo, within the current mechanics?
THEY CAN'T BE THE SAME BIRD.

For me, the terrestrial pick is one of my all-time top choices and I have absolutely no idea why it's not more popular:

View attachment 415523


As for aquatic...well, what do YOU think?? 🤪 🤪
Probably Roadrunner (it is close between that the Burrowing Owl, the Guinea Fowl, and the Ground Hornbill) and the Brown Pelican (Mandarin Duck was close)
 
Last edited:
Hey all, it's been a while and certainly less than great times irl for a lot of us, but let's focus on something fun - weekly community poll - which terrestrial bird and which aquatic bird would you like to see the most in Planet Zoo, within the current mechanics?
THEY CAN'T BE THE SAME BIRD.

For me, the terrestrial pick is one of my all-time top choices and I have absolutely no idea why it's not more popular:

View attachment 415523


As for aquatic...well, what do YOU think?? 🤪 🤪
For terrestrial, I feel it would be a crime that out of all the ratites, the greater rhea was left out. Hopefully, a Latin America pack is coming soon. Give the greater rhea species enrichment with the alpaca, capybara, collared peccary, giant anteater, and llama.

My next candidate would be the southern ground-hornbill. They’re the most common ground-hornbill species in zoos and can offer a wide variety of mixed species bonus to nearly every African ungulate, but especially to the gemsbok, Kirk’s dik-dik, and nyala.

I would choose the great white pelican for our aquatic bird. I feel this species has the greatest potential of having the most interspecies enrichment in the game, mixing well with all the European and Central Asian species, and giving a much needed interspecies bonus to the black rhinoceros and greater flamingo, along with the mute swan, Nile lechwe and all the African ungulates.

My second candidate, for the same reasons, would be the European white stork (this species is both a migrant and resident throughout its large range; this is why I would choose it over the African storks like the Abdim’s, marabou, saddle-billed, or yellow-billed).
 
Last edited:
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?

a-roseate-spoonbill-platalea-ajaja-with-black-bellied-whistling-ducks-in-a-marsh-south-padre-i...jpg
 
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?

View attachment 416314
Southamerican wetlands as well.

Ducks (several species), roseatte spoonbill, southern screamer, herons and storks.

I visit the biggest natural wetlands in my country last year and the variety of birds was amazing. I want to create the equivalent for my zoo.
 
Due to bias of currently building a zoo there im gonna say a north sea shorebird aviary. With something like pied avocet, oystercatcher, spoonbill and eider.

But honestly any reasonable mix of birds would be a blessing
 
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?

View attachment 416314

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.
 
Last edited:
Some African birds would be great, for example a mix of crowned crane, sacred ibis, flamingos, some Waterfowl, etc would be great.
 
I'd love to make some approximation of the giant African wetlands aviary at Sigean Safari Park in France - it has five species of stork (Abdim's, yellow-billed, saddle-billed, marabou and African openbill), three species of vulture, two species of ibis, goliath heron, hamerkop, crowned crane, speckled pigeon, blacksmith lapwing, eight species of duck, grey-cheeked hornbill, African grey parrot, Western plantain-eater, vulturine guineafowl and black-crowned night heron, alongside Northern talapoin monkeys. Maybe add some pelicans, purple swamphen, African spoonbill and African pygmy-goose for extra interest.
 
Got to be honest, I have so many mixed bird habitat ideas it’s killing me. Truthfully I can’t rank one over the other, but any of these will do:
  1. South American Tropical/ Wetlands
  2. African Tropical/ Wetlands
  3. Sea bird
  4. North American temperate/ prairie
 
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?

View attachment 416314
There are so many good mixed bird habitats we could get, South East Asia would be pretty cool although I feel it more so depends on the flying birds. African and South American wetlands would both be really interesting and have lots of popular species. Personally I would prefer a South American wetlands because the continent really needs it. The American flamingo, spoonbill and a couple of waterfowl would make for some great aviaries.
 
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?
I also want to build for South American wetlands, and I mostly need the scarlet ibis, white-faced whistling duck, and roseate spoonbill. A curassow, American flamingo, and jabiru would be pretty neat if possible. If we get flying birds, I'd kind of expect macaws and toucans to be first, but I'd hope for even more. For both flying and habitat birds, my number one priority is South America.

Africa has my number two mixed-species wishes for habitat birds. The white-faced whistling duck would also be useful for an African section featuring flamingos, crowned cranes, and great white pelicans. Storks, paradise cranes, and guineafowl would be nice to have as well for a mixed species habitat.
Australia and the surrounding islands have my number two wish for flying birds. Lorikeets, budgies, cockatoos, and kookaburras would be so nice. Kea would be good to go with the kiwi. I know the kakapo doesn't fly, but I think its best chance is to come among looped animation WE parrots.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top Bottom