The Bird Tier List 

>Emu's are low tier Australia, who lost a war against them: Say sike right now.

Corvids unlocked one of the most powerful features in the game: the chat room.

one glaring thing you forgot to mention was the kiwi's ability to fire laser beams out of its eyes

“Birds that are too violent for youtube” Ahh, so *that’s* why ducks aren’t here.

"The toucan is a woodpecker subspecies." Ohhhhh so that's why Pikipek's final evolution is Toucannon

I'd like to report a glitch: when I play a bird and try to fly through an opening in a house, I get blocked off by an invisible wall and crash to the ground. I think that the wooden frame of the opening somehow gets a huge hitbox. Also, these huge white noisy birds keep knocking me out of the sky. Ban them please.

For those who like the hummingbird build, I suggest the Sword-billed hummingbird. It has such a long beak, that it can only feed from the Passaflora flower. That may seem worse at first, until you realize only the sword-billed hummingbirds can eat from it. This means it will have no competition for it’s food source, turning the high risk-high reward play style into free XP. It still has pretty poor defensive stats, though, so it’s not top tier, but definitely has enough going for it to break out of F-tier.

You forgot that some parrot players went all in on their intelligence, which enabled the mimic ability, allowing them to be even more intimidating by mimicing a predator's roar ability, which is extremely intimidating as we all know.

The crows living near my house have figured out how to untie knots from rope to use for their nests I guess. This is a huge problem whenever a building has to be painted, as the scaffolding used is made of lots of bamboo tied up with rope. To fight the crows, the painters have brought in a few monkeys, who act as the guards on the scaffolding in exchange for food. I get to witness Air Monkeys fighting Land Monkeys everyday. Also watching the crows untie knots is mind blowing, they do it much faster than I ever could.

I still can’t get over the fact that he refers to extinction as “switching mains”

I like how the birds at 3:10 are just vibing

Speaking of geese relying heavily on intimidation. Once in high school when I was walking home from school I took a scenic detour through the town's only park. While crossing a bridge over a little stream I spotted a little girl, just old enough to grasp the concept of "Bird like bread" feeding the ducks. She was safe enough under the supervision of her mother and father. But that didn't stop a goose from getting mad that she ran out of bread before feeding it. It pecked her and she started crying, which prompted her father to charge the goose. It honked something fierce at her father who utterly unimpressed by its threat display grabbed it about the neck just behind its skull and swung it over his head like a lasso before hurtling it towards the lake.

Damn. Fighting a secretary bird is like 2 stage boss-fight. Guy just starts flying when he's low hp.

As a user of the Corvid build, this gave me a lot of ideas for strategies! I usually use the imitation + intimidation strat against opponents with higher weight and inteligence stats, like the human class for example. Also, love the Don't starve reference! 6:02

Chickens are criminally underranked in this video. Their quick respawn makes them invaluable as team members for human mains, which has resulted in them being the most successful bird build by far, being abundant all across the planet and having more mains than any other member of the bird faction. They are considered one of the most era-defining builds of the Anthropocene, and their dominance is actually one of the strongest arguments currently in place for defining it as distinct from the Holocene.

You forgot the kiwi's special ability: "friend shaped"

The emperor penguins slapping each other is just hilarious.

13:43 the eagle genuinely placed a trap for that curious bird outside 😂😮

I am absolutely TERRIFIED of swans and I honestly think they should be S tier. There was a nest of trumpeter swans on the pond next to the farm where I used to work and they were the scariest creatures I've ever met. They've got a few more specs that he forgot to mention in this video. Smaller swans like tundra and mute swans are capable of doing a lot of damage (especially to children), and a trumpeter swan could kill you. Not only are their wings strong enough to break bones, their heads are like clubs and, unlike geese, their beaks are sharp and hard. I once watched the two in the pond go head to head with a heron build player and they beat it to death with their heads and beaks. Besides that, having been attacked by one and bitten, their saliva burns like battery acid and their teeth are sharp. And another thing to keep in mind with swans is that a lot of their attack stats are totally unknown to human players, since swans have a crazy high beauty stat. Most players don't expect swans to be dangerous or aggressive because they're so pretty, so much so that we've built this whole I'm game lore around swans all throughout the history of the game (Leda and the swan, Swan Lake, the trumpet of the swan, etc). This high beauty stat has caused high level human players to protect swans. For example, all of the mute swan builds in england are protected from all counter attacks since they all belong to the royal family. Their beauty stats are doubly high because the battle cries of the more vocal swan builds like the whooper, whistler and especially trumpeter swan are even more melodoous than the calls of the song bird build, making it hard to recognize as a sound of aggression and adding to their already insanely high beauty stat. Yes, their necks are their vulnerable point but it would be insanely hard to get close enough to exploit that weakness. I don't think the bird in the video where the guy grabbed its neck was actually a swan, I think it was just a white goose. Swans will not let you get in close enough to grab their necks like that, they'd buffet you with their wings, bite you, take off abruptly, or beat you with their head and beak. It also looked way too small to be a swan, they're practically the size of pterodactyls! Also there are many types of swans (the whistler swan comes to mind) that have thicker, shorter necks that solve this problem. overall I think their major weakness is that they nest on or next to water, and thus their eggs are at the mercy of tides and water levels. So I think personally that they're worthy of S tier, though that could just be me trying to justify my extreme fear of them.

"Punching with their feet. . ." Sir, that's called kicking -amogus

The pelican trying to eat a Capybara was one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen.

TierZoo, I heard you say Stab Attack, and my nerdy ass thought “Same Type Attack Bonus”

The harpy eagle is the heaviest raptor and lives in the amazon, it is essentially an eagle sized hawk with a 7 foot wing span instead of the 9-10 foot wing spans of other eagles that prevents it from flying to extreme altitudes and for extended periods of time, but it allows it to weave its way between the dense canopy of the amazon. This high agility for its size and some of the best eyesight of any raptor allows the harpy eagle to catch prey that nothing else would have known was there and its large size enables it to carry off larger prey than any hawk ever could. And with 7-9 inch claws you do not want to be targeted by this angel.

Tier Zoo: mentions hawks. That one hawk clip of it doing parkour in a forest: my time has come

Falcon: Speed Hawk: Agility Eagle: Strength Secretarybird: KiCk

as a zoo veterinarian and lifelong gamer, this (and all your vids) are genuinely fantastic and well researched. i’ve been a fan for years! curious if the director’s cut (which clearly includes shrikes…well played) might also include gulls 👀

I love these and how you portray it as if it's a game.

I love how he calls mass-extinction events "balance patches"

5:42 can we all just appreciate that bee getting absolutely clobbered by that hummingbirds mach 3 wings and just tumbling through the air like a cartoon.

I absolutely love the references to the older games like runescape , the battlefront and half-life reference is amazing

I love how the meteor that hit earth has different "patch name" Everytime. It makes it so much funnier

Anything that moves: *exists* Geese: "And I took that personally"

13:45 Eagle really put the food on the ground and said “I dare you”

I would love to see a Vulture-dedicated tier list. They seem to "have it easy" in the overall meta with few if any predators and ez xp farming

I can't believe you started off with a Yoda scream, the scoundrel you. You made my night. Instant like.

Pelican: "Imma eat you!" casually tries to swallow a gigantic rodent... "Nevermind you can live."

I love how he talks about the extinction of the dinosaurs as “the patch notes”

I’d watch an entire video just with all of the funny clips you find with animals antagonizing and fighting off one another

13:30 Look at that heron STAND AND BANG w those hawk types, new respect

The pelican trying to eat the unfazed capybara was hilarious 19:08 Edit: Added timestamp

I do not know why i'm watching a man ranking birds like a video game, all i know is that i am enjoying this so much

hilarious, love the music and the way you presented the material.

The little disclaimer for shrikes is hilarious

TierZoo: mentions seagulls Also TierZoo: doesn't rank them

"Invasive species" call it what it is, veteran players minging on low-skill servers and ruining everyone's fun. I can't tell you how many fun builds Ive seen new players try, only to get shut down by smurfs server-raiding low level areas.

your videos are so great… 9:57 i love this part because it really makes the woodpecker look like a real pokémon. it really makes me wonder if nature actually is just a game where the animals respawn and can pick different classes

I'd say he has the wrong estimate on the peacock power stat - their claws can actually do some pretty serious damage, which comes in handy in their native Asian jungle servers where they occasionally get cornered by tigers with no escape, and use those claws as a last-ditch survival strategy. Still not a high tier build, but I'd say they're higher than he placed them.

TierZoo going to a park: Ha. That bird is f tier. What a loser

Plot twist: he’s actually a parrot who put all of his skill points into speech.

Thanks for showing me what build I should play next time I join a random server! Oh, and by the way: Your videos are incredibly entertaining and in my eyes, informative!

Shrikes. A unique form of passerine with the hunting prowess of a raptor albeit with different weaponry, along with a unique base building ability that chooses intimidation and stockpiling loot.

"In B tier, we have goose" Goose : P E A C E W A S N E V E R A N O P T I O N

*Eagle:* I tear my foes up with my large, razor-sharp claws. *Hawk:* Me too! *Falcon:* *_P O N C H ! ! !_*

This video was very useful when making my build but I was curious about the Cassowary stats as its my favorite animal

This is going to help a lot, I need to grind the bird drops for my build's endgame armor set, knowing their weaknesses will aid in my matches

“Corvids are basically what you’d get if you gave monkeys wings”. Got it, all I needed to know

I love how tier zoo rips apart F tiers, like it’ll be the cutest animal and he’s like “fuckin useless bitch”

In my early levels as a Human main, I was innocently imitating a Rooster player. They... Didn't take that well. Messed my shin up pretty badly. Take notes, folks- chickens may be C-tier, but they can still mess you up if you're careless- a lesson I learned the hard way! (also there was this one time I was accidentally dive-bombed by a Blue-Tanged Mot-Mot player in a zoo zone's aviary- turns out I was accidentally in the path of their Swoop attack when they were going for a bug player)

I know im late but i think you failed to realize the flamingos ability to filter in high level areas that turn can decompose other players flesh. The complete dominance of brackish areas is a really powerful skill and that adaptability is why i believe so many play it and it will continue to be a well played class

I think you've vastly underrated Pigeons, especially on intelligence. Pigeons and humans have cooperated for centuries and, while fairly weak, they have great resilience if they survive attack. One pigeon, Cher Ami, was awarded a service medal during WWII for surviving being shot and still carrying a message home! Will always be my favorite bird build - scrappy and clever.

I lost it when the Corvids provoked the two animals to fight

The production values of these videos are top tier

Goose: You're just a cheap knock-off! Swan: Oh, no no no. I'm the upgrade.

“Anything can be eaten if you try hard enough” -Pelicans sitting in A tier after attempting to swallow half of the animal kingdom

"In B tier, we have the goose." Goose: So you have chosen death.

Pheasant like the lady Amherst and red golden and cassowary (strong legs kicks) and a pair or group of eagles can you talk about those and which bird would be able to go against larger builds like big cats or other things like that!

Gotta give props to the Black Kite build found on the Australian server, aka Black Firebird. When hairless apes use fire to clear brush, the kites gorge on the insects disrupted by the blaze. They will then use the environmental weapon of glowing embers, carry them in their talons to new areas, and drop them to start new fires to continue the feast. At least A tier.

100% the Shoebill needs to be addressed. Extremely unique bird that, in my opinion, is worthy of a video on its own.

No seagulls? I would've thought they would be easily A tier, considering how well they've adapted to human territory. I rarely see dead seagulls, and they can usually best a matchup between cats, the most prominent urban bird hunters, but they can fly away from dogs. They can still fight for their own in the wild. They can also steal human items for loot and xp.

8:14 Imagine the shame felt from being the one get caught while what looks like hundreds of others escaped successfully.

Former Albatross main here, the Diomedeidae class is quite good for those who favor outright endurance, the Great Albatross, Wandering Sub-Class is a particularly fantastic build with the 'Great Wings', 'Half Sleep' and 'On the Go Food' Perks and the none existent avian threats means Its great for casual players, but land based Feline and Rodent are particularly effective against low level Albatross, an update that could be applicable would be a more versatile attack strategy, but considering the high endurance but low health and defense an assaultive play style would be unwarented.

Ratites: F Class Also Ratites: Semi-officially won a guild war against Homo sapiens in the Australian server

That falcon vs heron clip was seriously amazing. The falcon really baited him, he set the meat down, used it as bait, and punished the attempt at stealing his food so efficiently. Seriously smart falcon.

12:30 Oof! Bro behind him was like "told you not to do it man" 😂

this is my favorite channel now

That pelican trying and failing to eat the turtle is super effective against my depression.

I like how the capybara doesnt give a shit when the pelican attempts to eat it

Thank you for this tier list.

That turtle grabbing the pigeon and its health bar instantly going red was too good.

hearing someone call a genocidal meteor a “balance patch” is the funniest thing to me

Calling the meteor a "balance patch" is pure genius 😂

As someone who has an eclectus parrot, can confirm that they're absolutely S tier. He's way too smart for his own good, to the point where we have to keep him mentally stimulated with things like foraging toys or he gets *bored*. And he's a top tier shit-talker too. So glad to see parrots and corvids (my two fave birds) where they belong 🥹

Crazy how I learnt so much on animals thanks to your channel

If your build can be harassed by a butterfly, then you’re doing something wrong

The thing that you forgot about flamingos though is that often times they make their homes not just in some lake, but in lakes where the water is both acidic AND boiling because flamingos are largely heat-proof, even being able to drink the boiling, caustic water. So anything that does decide to attack them on their home turf would be seriously scalded.

It was shown in a lot of the gameplay footage but not really touched one in the commentary: a lot of the bird builds use falling damage to their advantage. Striking and stunning or staggering an opponent that's either flying or climbing will cause them to fall, so the attack itself doesn't necessarily need to do a lot of damage since the impact will finish the job.

I guessed the harpy would end up on top. But a surprisingly good list. I much more respected chickens after learning their vision includes UV spectrum light and having eyes with different focal points.

Kiwis' size makes sense when you remember NZ's apex predator was a giant terror eagle. Being tiny was probably super helpful in that server.

"Buff the land mobility of the Leopard Seal" is possibly one of the most terrifying things I've ever heard.

I gotta say, I freaking love this video.

I actually enjoyed, loved, and learnt from this video. I meant, it’s the next level from a multidimensional mind map, where each description is actually an explanatory video. ❤

"Striking from the sky is so overrated, you dumb dumb avians" -secretary bird probably

"Although it does have it's limitations" *pelican attempting to swallow a capybara*

Kiwi put all points into charisma and now hes ultra cute.

Tierzoo: emus are a low tier animal Australia: *shudders nervously*

He should make a bug tier list, for example ants, primantus, wasps etc.

"If I've missed any of your favourite birds," Dude, you put all three of them in S tier. I am MORE than pleased!

First time on this channel, idk why i just looked up birds tierlist cuz i was confused about owl and eagle. Just 10 seconds in ans I absolutely love it lmfaoo

5:42 that bee losing control and crashing was horrifying