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Also of note is that with many birds, this one included, the males and females look very distinct.


Not sure this is even supported with the way the game currently handles species, correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah, haha, the forum asked to be specific with species, so I was.


But really, as long as the game has all the major different beak shapes available (or just more sliders) , and some feather tufts etc as embellishments, players could easily enough recreate 90% of bird species just by customizing the markings.

This seems to be already planned: https://trello.com/c/ZsFob8gt/83-develop-a-new-player-welcome-sequence


I think anything very in-depth should probably wait til later though, as if you made a detailed tutorial this early on, it'd become inaccurate whenever something is changed.