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  "description": "Every confirmed bird, its level and spawn conditions, plus the pose rules that raise star ratings.",
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  "textContent": "Bird Watching in Heartopia is a collection mechanic built around one job: finding each bird, meeting its spawn conditions, and taking a photo before it flees. The collection currently includes 77 birds, with availability tied to Bird Watching level, location, weather, and sometimes an event.\n\n**Quick answer:** To complete the Bird Watching collection, match each bird to its required level, area, and weather, then photograph it from a little over eight meters away and wait for a higher-value pose if you want more stars.\n\n📷\n\nBirds are easier to photograph when you keep your distance. If you get too close, they focus on you or fly off.\n\nImage credit: __XD (via YouTube/@The Rhein A)__\n\n* * *\n\n### How Bird Watching works in Heartopia\n\nBird Watching unlocks through Bailey in the center of town near Garden Street, and it requires a Hobby Expansion Ticket. Once the hobby is active, you use the Scanner to zoom in from a distance, frame a bird, and take photos to build proficiency.\n\nEach successful scan creates an Info Card that records the sighting and your best-quality shot. New discoveries help push your Bird Watching level higher, which in turn unlocks more species and better tools.\n\nThe Birdwatching Diary in the Collections app is the fastest way to verify progress. A new entry or higher star record confirms the photo counted.\n\nUse the Scanner to zoom in from a distance, frame a bird, and take photos | Image credit: __XD (via YouTube/@The Rhein A)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Bird Watching skills and unlocks\n\nUnlock | Effect\n---|---\nScanner Maintenance | Raises scanner durability so you can take more photos before repair.\nObservation Skill | Improves scanner performance.\nAction Recognition | Registers poses instead of treating them as unknown.\nInfo Card Recycling | Lets Bailey J accept Info Cards for rewards.\nAuto Bird Whistle | Helps birds cycle through poses more often.\nBurst Mode | Can grant an extra Info Card when scanning.\nPerfect Photo | Adds one star when the bird is centered and close in frame.\nCamouflage Bush | Helps you stay unnoticed by birds.\n\n* * *\n\n### Bird poses and star ratings\n\nPhoto quality is not only about finding the species. It also depends on what the bird is doing when the picture is taken.\n\nPose | Base result\n---|---\nIdle Pose | Standard standing pose.\nChirping | Base 2-star photo.\nClean Feathers | 3-star photo.\nFinding Food | 4-star photo.\nStretching Feathers | 4-star photo.\nPerfect Position | Adds 1 star if the bird is centered in the frame.\n\nPerfect Position is the key modifier for 5-star photos. The cleanest setup is to catch a 4-star pose like Finding Food or Stretching Feathers while keeping the bird centered.\n\nThe Bird Whistle and rainy weather both help trigger more pose changes. If a bird stays in idle too long, wait rather than walking closer.\n\nPerfect Position is the key modifier for 5-star photos | Image credit: __XD (via YouTube/@The Rhein A)__\n\n* * *\n\n### All bird locations in Heartopia\n\nBird | Level | Location | Weather | Time\n---|---|---|---|---\nBlue Peafowl| 1| Nest of Hundreds Event| Any| All Day\nBlue-and-Yellow Macaw| 1| Nest of Hundreds Event| Any| All Day\nEurasian Bullfinch| 1| Suburbs| Any| All Day\nEurasian Chaffinch| 1| Flower Field| Any| All Day\nEurasian Collared Dove| 1| Home Lots| Any| All Day\nEurasian Robin| 1| Central Area| Any| All Day\nEurasian Wren| 1| Forest| Any| All Day\nGreat Tit| 1| Onsen Mountain| Any| All Day\nGreater Flamingo| 1| Lake and Water| Any| All Day\nLong-Tailed Tit| 1| Blanc's Head| Any| All Day\nMallard| 1| Lake and Water| Any| All Day\nPied Imperial Pigeon| 1| Fishing Village| Any| All Day\nBearded Reedling| 2| Onsen Mountain| Any| All Day\nEurasian Nuthatch| 2| Fishing Village| Any| All Day\nEurasian Widgeon| 2| River| Any| All Day\nPink-Necked Green Pigeon| 2| Flower Field| Any| All Day\nSeagull| 2| Seaside| Any| All Day\nStock Dove| 2| Central Area| Any| All Day\nWonga Pigeon| 2| Forest| Any| All Day\nWoodchat Shrike| 2| Suburbs| Any| All Day\nAudouin's Gull| 3| Whale Sea and Amethyst Beach| Any| All Day\nDouble-Barred Finch| 3| Fishing Village Lighthouse| Any| All Day\nEurasian Golden Oriole| 3| Rivers| Any| All Day\nEuropean Shag| 3| Ocean Rocks| Any| All Day\nKing Eider| 3| Rivers| Any| All Day\nRed-and-Green Macaw| 3| Nest of Hundreds Event| Any| All Day\nRuddy Shelduck| 3| Suburban Lake| Any| All Day\nSilver-Throated Tit| 3| Forest Jump Puzzle| Any| All Day\nLady Amherst Pheasant| 4| Onsen Mountain Ruins| Any| All Day\nPine Grosbeak| 4| Forest Island| Any| All Day\nPrzevalski's Parrotbill| 4| Fishing Village Square| Sunny or Rainbow| All Day\nRegent Bowerbird| 4| Spirit Oak Pine Forest| Any| All Day\nSmew| 4| Forest Lake| Any| All Day\nWallace Fruit Dove| 4| Windmill Flower Field| Any| All Day\nWhite Wagtail| 4| Amethyst Beach| Any| All Day\nAfrican Olive Pigeon| 5| Onsen Mountain| Any| All Day\nBrown Noddy| 5| Old Sea, North| Any| All Day\nEuropean Bee-Eater| 5| Onsen Mountain Lake| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nGreat Green Macaw| 5| Nest of Hundreds Event| Sunny and Rainbow| All Day\nLesser Flamingo| 5| Forest Lake Shore| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nYellow Bellied Flycatcher| 5| Fishing Village Wharf| Any| All Day\nCinnamon Ground Dove| 6| Fishing Village East| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nHawfinch| 6| Onsen Mountain Lake| Any| All Day\nLong-Eared Owl| 6| Onsen Mountain Cliffs| Sunny and Rainbow| All Day\nRed Faced Cormorant| 6| Old Sea| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nAzure Tit| 7| Windmill Flower Field| Sunny and Rainbow| All Day\nCommon Kestrel| 7| Forest Deer Tower| Sunny and Rainbow| All Day\nEastern Bluebird| 7| Suburbs| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nJambu Fruit Dove| 7| Suburbs| Any| All Day\nPeregrine Falcon| 7| Onsen Mountain| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nPink Pigeon| 7| Flower Field| Any| All Day\nRedpolis| 7| Spirit Oak Pine Forest| Any| All Day\nTern| 7| East Side Seaside| Rainbow| All Day\nAmerican Flamingo| 9| Flower Field| Rainbow| All Day\nImperial Shag| 9| East Side| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nParadise Tanager| 9| Suburbs| Any| All Day\nWhite-Headed Duck| 9| Onsen Mountain Lake| Rainbow| All Day\nEurasian Eagle-Owl| 10| Forest Deer Tower| Rainy and Rainbow| All Day\nPyrrhula| 10| Fishing Village Lighthouse| Rainbow| All Day\nRed-Footed Falcon| 10| Onsen Mountain Ruins| Any| All Day\nVerditer Flycatcher| 10| Forest Jump Puzzle| Rainbow| All Day\nImage credit: __XD (via YouTube/@The Rhein A)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Nest of Hundreds Event birds\n\nA small but important slice of the collection is tied to the Nest of Hundreds Event rather than a normal map spawn. These are Blue Peafowl, Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, Red-and-Green Macaw, and Great Green Macaw.\n\nIf a bird is missing from its usual biome list and belongs to this event group, it will not appear through ordinary exploration. The confirmation is simple: once the event bird is photographed, its species entry updates in the Birdwatching Diary like any other sighting.\n\n* * *\n\n### Weather rules that matter most\n\nMost birds appear in any weather, so your search usually comes down to level and place. The exceptions are the birds that need Sunny, Rainy, or Rainbow conditions.\n\nWeather requirement | Birds\n---|---\nSunny or Rainbow | Przevalski's Parrotbill, Great Green Macaw, Long-Eared Owl, Azure Tit, Common Kestrel\nRainy or Rainbow | European Bee-Eater, Lesser Flamingo, Cinnamon Ground Dove, Red Faced Cormorant, Eastern Bluebird, Peregrine Falcon, Imperial Shag, Eurasian Eagle-Owl\nRainbow only | Tern, American Flamingo, White-Headed Duck, Pyrrhula, Verditer Flycatcher\n\nSnow counts as wet weather for bird spawns that prefer rain, so rainy-condition birds can still be worth checking during snowfall.\n\nMost birds appear in any weather | Image credit: __XD (via YouTube/@Gamezoid)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Why a bird photo does not count\n\nThe most common failure is distance. Birds stop behaving naturally when you crowd them, which cuts off the higher-star poses and can make them leave the area.\n\nThe second failure is bad framing. An out-of-focus capture creates an Invalid Info Card instead of the species you were aiming for.\n\nThe third failure is missing the exact condition. If a bird needs Rainbow weather, an all-day time window does not override that requirement.\n\n* * *\n\n### How Bird Watching progresses after level 10\n\nLevel 10 is not the true end of the hobby. After reaching it with Hobby Expansion Tickets, further progress is locked behind D.G. Member level 50.\n\nAt that point, Premium Hobby Expansion Tickets begin to matter for the final hobby levels. The sign that progression is open again is straightforward: premium tickets become usable for Bird Watching instead of the hobby staying capped at level 10.\n\nImage credit: __XD (via YouTube/@Gamezoid)__\n\n* * *\n\nIf you are trying to finish the collection quickly, the cleanest route is to work by weather first, then by map zone, and save event birds for active Nest of Hundreds periods. The Birdwatching Diary is the final check. If the species is listed and your star record improves, the photo counted.",
  "title": "Heartopia bird locations and photo poses reference",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-06T04:02:56.383Z"
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