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

[Nausicaaa 22]

No updates this week, but weekly community poll - with the Americas pack now out, in-game birds have officially hit the teens!

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Which of the Feathered Fourteen, are your Top 4? The criteria can be whatever you like: personal favorite birds, best models, favorite to build for, it's up to you.

For me, I'll go with my favorite birds irl as well the ones I'm best excited to build for:

1. Sussex Chicken
2. King Penguin
3. North Island Brown Kiwi
4. Indian Peafowl (can't bet the classics)

What about you?

Ohh, I love this question!
Also, amazing list! They are indeed really fun to build for!

-Personal Favorite Birds-
1. Greater Rhea
2. Mute Swan
3. Little Blue Penguin
4. Southern Cassowary

-Best Models-
1. Mute Swan
2. Sussex Chicken
3. American Flamingo
4. Emu

-Favorite to Build for-
-Emu / Cassowary
-Greater Rhea
-Mute Swan
-North Island Brown Kiwi


Well, indeed, I FREACKING LOVE the Rhea. It's been my favorite animal since I saw it as a kid in Terra Natura Benidorm, and when I saw it in the trailer, I literally gasped of how beautiful it looked. It's a dream came true for me. Now I can finally die in peace having Ocelot, Peccary and Rhea in the game

 

[SuzieSky]

1. Southern Cassowary
2. American Flamingo
3. African Penguin
4. Indian Peafowl

 

[SanRazo]

Mute Swan
Peafowl
King Penguin
Cassowary

 

[dosman2233]

No updates this week, but weekly community poll - with the Americas pack now out, in-game birds have officially hit the teens!

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Which of the Feathered Fourteen, are your Top 4? The criteria can be whatever you like: personal favorite birds, best models, favorite to build for, it's up to you.

For me, I'll go with my favorite birds irl as well the ones I'm best excited to build for:

1. Sussex Chicken
2. King Penguin
3. North Island Brown Kiwi
4. Indian Peafowl (can't bet the classics)

What about you?

1. Little Penguin
2. Mute Swan
3. Red-Crowned Crane
4. Southern Cassowary

 

[dosman2233]

 

[Marvinb]

Id probably settle on the trio of:
-African penguin
-Cuban flamingo
-Emu
Due to looks and usability, plus the swan just due to providing us with a waterfowl rig and the amazing amount of mods it spawned

 

[The Carcharodontogenius]

No updates this week, but weekly community poll - with the Americas pack now out, in-game birds have officially hit the teens!

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Which of the Feathered Fourteen, are your Top 4? The criteria can be whatever you like: personal favorite birds, best models, favorite to build for, it's up to you.

For me, I'll go with my favorite birds irl as well the ones I'm best excited to build for:

1. Sussex Chicken
2. King Penguin
3. North Island Brown Kiwi
4. Indian Peafowl (can't bet the classics)

What about you?

1. Greater Rhea.
2. Emu.
3. African Penguin.
4. Mute Swan.

 

[ChicoGenialoso1]

1. Bald Eagle
2. Gentoo Penguin
3. Great Horned Owl
4. Peregrine Falcon
5. Harpy Eagle
6. Chinstrap Penguin
7. Snowy Owl
8. Emperor Penguin
9. Great Hornbill
10. Eurasian Eagle-Owl
11. Kea
12. Barn Owl
13. Steller's Sea Eagle
14. Lammergeier
15. Northern Goshawk
16. Southern Ground Hornbill
17. Scarlet Macaw
18. Golden Eagle
19. California Condor
20. American Crow
21. King Vulture
22. Griffon Vulture
23. Secretary Bird
24. Shoebill
25. Red Kite

 

[TheDuckKnight]

List has FINALLY been updated!

Tomorrow we get the Asia Animal Pack! So it begs the question - weekly community poll - what are YOUR thoughts about the upcoming DLC??

Look...I don't want to yuck anyone's yum or coming off as a single-issue voter, but I think it's a pretty middling pack. It's obvious PZ is wrapping up sooner than later and now's really the time to get the last minute additions in and well...

THE MANDARIN DUCK WAS RIGHT.
DUCKING.
THERE.

HOW? WHY? NOOOOOOOOOO.

I'm holding out hope because it's all I have. Please, please just give us some more love before it ends.

Besides the lack of my beloved birds, I'm just a little idk...confused? I thought Americas was pretty solid, even with the rhea issues and hyper specific scenery. But it seems like this is the more favored of the packs this year, and I'm kinda confused to why? (And I would genuinely like to hear from those who prefer over Americas)

We babble on for months we tried of hoofstock, but now everyone is going bananas for TWO antelope and a deer?
Americas got so much flack for more canids, but we're lapping up the tanuki like Honey Nut Cheerios.
The flamingo got a wag of the finger for being a clone, but the elephant...actually I'm not even gonna touch that.
I don't get it!!

But I will say I'm a shameless Zoo Tycoon completionist so the honey badger is very welcomed. I do work at the Bronx Zoo so while I'm not exactly clicking my heels, the Pere David Deer, blackbuck, and nigali are OG to me.

And a true tip of the hat for the macaque, Frontier has really turned the tide for the best with primates, especially monkeys lately and I hope that sticks till the end of support.

And the animals do like very nice as well.

And I like those big flowers and the free butterfly (more exhibit animals as free updates maybe??? )

What about YOU?

 

[Marvinb]

Mandarin, pheasant and pelican were for sure my most wanted animals from asia, so getting none of those, and not bird what so ever is really disappointing.

Aside from that its a decent pack. A common asian monkey was for sure desperately needed, so was a common asian antelope and an asian deer. So filling these big holes in the roster is great. Now did i immediately need two asian antelopes in this pack? Not really. It doesnt bother me as much here as in arid, because A) asia wasnt particularly flowing over with options for filler hoofstock and B) blackbuck and nilgai feel a little more distinct from one another than addax and dama. Still, i think the second spot could have gone to a more needed "imo" animal, namely a bird or if they were dead set on 3 ungulates the muntjac for some more variety. Honey badger is neat, nothing i was dying for but its cool, raccoon dog similarly but to a lesser degree. The elephant is well... the elephant and ill leave it at that

 

[Stygi]

The lack of a bird in this pack is honestly just a bit annoying at this point, there was a plethora of good choices available, mandarin, pelican, pheasant, any stork or goose heck even a second Asian crane would've been more than welcome and not getting any is a glaring omission.

Overall I am quite happy with the pack, getting another monkey is wonderful I am overjoyed we have received 3 in a row and I hope that this keeps up with another African or New World Monkey in the next pack. I am also very happy with the Blackbuck getting us a good Indian filler ungulate which we have been sorely missing. Asia in general is quite lacking in ungulates so I am fine with the Nilgai and Pere David's Deer although I would have preferred a Muntjac. I don't really have strong feelings either way for the Honey Badger but it was quite popular. In my eyes it is the Raccoon Dog and Elephant that definitely should have been switched out I really didn't want either of them, there are just too many canids at this point especially if we end up getting some jackal or fox in a safari pack. The Elephant may be the single worst choice they could have made, I just don't understand it.

I guess in a way I prefer this pack to Americas because it is much more successful at executing on its potential with some of my most wanted animals as opposed to Americas that although filling some niches I wanted such as another NWM and more birds they were largely B tier picks e.g. Flamingo instead of Spoonbill or Ibis and Saki instead of Squirrel, Howler, Spider or a Tamarin, the only animal I was specifically really wanting was the Rhea which they absolutely butchered. Getting 2 dogs, a cat and a brown Dall sheep all in 1 pack as opposed to the Coati, Mara and a variety of other choices just sucked.