Planet Zoo 2 Flying Animals: All Aviary Birds

Flying animals at a glance

How aviaries work

An aviary is a habitat with a roof. From Frontier's aviary feature:

• Building: make a closed loop of barriers with a staff gate, as for any habitat, then select the habitat and choose Add Roof. A flat roof is built over the whole habitat from the barrier posts.
• Shaping the roof: place pillars anywhere inside and the roof follows them; you can change the pillars' height and rotation and the roof's material and curve, from tent shapes to domes.
• Flying space: every bird species needs a certain amount of room to fly. The Zoopedia gives each species' needs, and the aviary's info panel shows its Flyable Area. A higher roof or a bigger habitat adds flying space.
• Nests: birds need nesting sites to breed. Cavity nests and cup nests suit tree-dwelling birds; water platforms and mud nests suit waders and ground birds. Cavity nests have a camera for watching eggs and chicks.
• Sharing: some birds can live with other bird species and with land animals; the Zoopedia says which.
• Walk-through aviaries: for sociable birds, a guest gate and a path let visitors walk through the aviary.

The exact flying space, group size and companions of each bird are in the in-game Zoopedia; we add them to each bird once two videos of the released game confirm them.

Planning by landscape? The Planet Zoo 2 biomes page shows which other animals come from the same biome as each bird.

Birds that stay on the ground

Not every bird flies in the game. The African Penguin and Common Ostrich are listed for terrestrial habitats, so they live in normal habitats instead of aviaries.

Threatened flying animals

6 of the 12 flying animals are threatened in the wild according to their Zoopedia entries: Great Hornbill (vulnerable), Javan Green Magpie (critically endangered), Long-Tailed Parakeet (vulnerable), Secretarybird (endangered), Shoebill (vulnerable) and White-Backed Vulture (critically endangered).