Bird

The Bird Faction is a group encompassing all winged characters featuring feathers, toothless beaked jaws, warm blood, and the ability to lay eggs with solid shells. They are the poster child for flight while actually being the third class in the game to unlock flight.

## **Birds *are divided into nine or three major groups depending on how you look at the Faction:***

### Ratites

 These include the builds that opted not to have the [Flight] ability in favour of increased base stats and a stronger start. Known for being the most primitive of the Bird builds. Examples include Elephant Birds and Moas.

#### Pros

* Decent running Mobility.
* Highest average Health among its own Faction.
* Access to Island-only perks.
* Precocial Leveling
* Good Power stat.
* Less vulnerable to grab attacks than other Factions.

#### Cons:

* Nonexistent flying ability
* Average Intelligence.
* Can be used as [Poultry] loot.
* Easily prone to spawncampers.

### Fowl

 Another primitive Faction, these builds could either be builds with good running ability but horrible Flight capacity (gamefowl) or omnivorous builds that play in freshwater servers (waterfowl). Like Ratites, they have a strong early-game. It includes Geese, Peafowl and Wild Turkeys.

#### Pros:

* Precocial Leveling
* Access to Island-only perks.
* Good Resolve, Health and Intimidation stats.
* Tank builds
* Generalists
* Least prone to spawncampers.
* Access to the marine server

#### Cons

* Weak flying capacity
* Average Mobility.
* Average matchup against fish.
* Vulnerable to grab damage
* Most likely to be used as [Poultry] loot.

### Columbaves (Neoaves)

 - We are in the group which includes 95% of all bird builds, which is what people mostly talk about when referreing to a bird. We will list some of the bird Factions within the Neoaves because they're so diverse.

#### Pros:

* Access to Island-only perks.
* Tank builds (Bustards and Dodo)
* Good flying capacity.
* Decent Intelligence and Mobility.
* Can steal spawn points.
* Access to Support classes.
* Access to the City meta.

#### Cons:

* Altricial leveling
* Vulnerable to grabs
* Low Health stat (except for Island-only builds and Bustards)
* Low Power stat.
* Poor performance in the City meta.
* Overly low Resolve.

#### Pros:

* High Mobility
* Good Stealth
* Able to take down small Rodent builds
* Very great flying capacity
* Can hover, allowing the player to stop in midair.
* Access to the city meta.

#### Cons

* Can't access Island-only perks.
* Low Health and Power
* Very high food cost.

#### Pros:

* Access to Island-only perks.
* Good water Mobility.
* Beak works well as a disjointed hitbox
* Good Health

#### Cons:

* Island-only perks sometimes reduce base stats.
* Still vulnerable to grab damage.

### Waterbirds

Aka Aequorlithornithes, It includes many marine bird builds as well as the top tier of the pond meta, the heron.

#### Pros:

* Best Access to the marine server.
* Top-tier in the pond meta.
* Good aquatic Mobility
* Filter-feeders
* Can tolerate toxic lakes
* Beak works as a disjointed hitbox.
* Has access to a AoE grab attack.
* Good matchup against fish players.

#### Cons:

* Mostly full of aquatic specialists.
* Nearly no offensive options against land builds.
* Prone to the [Choking] debuff.
* Global Warming
* Oil Spills
* Average flight capability.

#### Pros:

* Good arboreal Mobility.
* Stench reduces Resolve of predators, especially Raptors
* One of the few **Bird** builds which can eat leaves.
* Good Intelligence

#### Cons:

* Low Power, Defense, Stealth and Health.
* Restricted to the [Herbivore] playstyle
* Nothing else... only Hoatzin.
* Weak flying capacity.

### Afroaves

Includes woodpeckers, kingfishers and the majority of the Raptor Faction.

#### Pros:

* Good Power
* Great matchups against termites and fish
* Disjointed hitboxes
* Good Stealth
* Includes the largest flying **Bird** build in the game, Argentavis.
* Really dominant in forest servers.
* Access to Support builds.
* Able to take down builds their own weight class or greater.
* Easily destroys lightweight builds.

#### Cons:

* Average Mobility and Health.
* Chemical debuffs are twice as effective.
* Island-only perks rarely increase Health.
* Altricial leveling.

### Australaves

Includes most perching bird builds, the speedster falcons, everyone's favourite Ice Age favourite bird builds, and for nostalgic purposes, Seriemas.

#### Pros:

* Good Mobility and Intelligence.
* Legs function well as disjointed hitboxes
* AoE Resolve Reduction.
* Best flying capability out of the Factions.
* Best access to Support class.
* Best access to the City meta.
* Access to Island-only perks.
* Generalists
* Can steal spawn points.

#### Cons:

* Below-average Health (except for terror birds)
* Low Power (except for Seriemas, Falcons and Terror Birds)
* High food cost.
* Below-average Stealth.
* Altricial levelling

## History

### Cretaceous Expansion

Birds first appeared during the Cretaceous expansion, but not much is known about the first bird to exist. Some of the earliest birds found in the Cretaceous are Sapeornis and the Confuciusornithids.

### Censozoic Expansions - The Reign of Terror Birds

Terror birds like Titanis, Phorusrhacos, and Kelenken replicated the Theropod builds of old. They played from the Eocene to the Pleistocene expansions. At first not really any builds could stop them and they reigned at the top of the tier list. However, soon Mammal builds became stronger and outcompeted the birds.

## Trivia

* Perching Birds usually go for small seeds, nuts, and berries, as well as small invertebrate characters like worms.
* Shore Birds normally try to catch fish or crab players.
* Raptors prefer small to medium-sized animals and other birds.

## Notable Builds

### S Tier

* Osprey- The Raptor build with the best matchup against fish.
* Secretary Bird- A Raptor build which proves flight is overrated. Also a scavenger in the African meta.
* Harpy Eagle- An Eagle main specialized for hunting in jungle servers.
* Haast's Eagle- The largest eagle main, able to destroy builds many times their weight class such as Moas
* Peregrine Falcon - The fastest build in the game, allowing it to grief Fowl and Pigeon with impunity
* Goshawk- A premier hyper-aggressive Rushdown.
* Argentavis- The largest flying build ever in the game, closely related to condors.
* Pelagornis- A bird build with false teeth which allows it to deal even more damage to fish players. It can also move very fast.
* Gastornis- An omnivorous bird build with barely any bad matchups.
* Parrot- An Intelligence-based build with a damage-dealing AoE Resolve reduction ability.
* Screamer- A Fowl build with one of the few XP-reducing abilities in the game.
* Corvid- An Intelligence build that is common in cities.

### A Tier

* Elephant Bird- The largest **Bird** build in the game, native to the Madagascar server.
* Phorusrhacos- A dominant Terror Bird build which gives its Faction its datamined name.
* Swan- A bird build which does the Goose build but better, with even better aesthetics.
* Basic Hawk- A nimble Raptor build which is good at avoiding obstacles.
* Basic Eagle- A heavily armed Raptor build with their claws.
* Basic Falcon- A build which relied on its beak to deal damage. Actually more closely related to Parrots than to other raptors.
* Crow- A generalist bird build with high Intelligence. In the city meta, they are S-tier.
* Heracles Inexpectatus- A gigantic Parrot build that can also eat meat.

### B Tier

* Pelican- A well known bird that plays on costal servers similar to the gull but with a bit better stats
* Basic Owl- A nocturnal raptor which has silent wings
* Basic Vulture- A scavenger bird and a tank bird, this has think feathers and a large wingspan

### C Tier

* Wild Turkey- A Fowl build that plays on the North American server and is the normal verison of the support class Domestic Turkey which is used as Poultry loot.
* Canary- A small yellow bird that is a support class
* Titanis- A descendant of Phorusarchos that moved to North America.
* Emu- A Ratite build from the Australian server that is famous for winning many PvP battles against Human players.

### D Tier

* Ostrich- A Ratite build that is despite its good stats, low tier because of it's bad matchups with low, mid, and high tiers alike.

### F Tier

* Kiwi- A cute, small Ratite build that, sadly, has been ganked by Domestic Cat and Rat mains.
* Kakapo- A cute, large parrot that has been wrecked by various things. It is famous for players like Sirocco.