Exotic Birds Mod (1.20.1, 1.19.2) – Hear the World Come Alive

Exotic Birds Mod adds more than 30 new types of birds to your Minecraft world, making it feel more alive. You can hear woodpeckers pecking in trees, see swans swimming in rivers, and listen to lyrebirds copying the sounds around them. With over 100 total bird species, this mod fills your world with new sights and sounds.

Features:

• Discover more than 30 unique bird types, with over 100 different species in total.
• Find birds spawning naturally in a variety of biomes across the world.
• Birds will lay their own eggs, which you can find and try to hatch.
• Locate nests on top of trees that may contain regular or unidentified eggs.
• Craft a Bird Encyclopedia to learn about each bird, including its habitat and favorite food.
• Build birdcages to safely capture and transport your birds to new locations.
• Use an Egg Identifier to figure out what kind of bird is inside an unidentified egg.
• Place eggs in an Egg Incubator to increase their chance of hatching successfully.

Commands:

The old version of the mod included commands to summon specific birds. These may not work in newer versions.

• Hummingbird: /summon exoticbirds.EB_Hummingbird ~ ~ ~ {Type:0-4}
• Magpie holding an item: /summon exoticbirds.EB_Magpie ~ ~ ~ {Equipment:[{id:clock}]}
• Tamed Parrot: /summon exoticbirds.EB_Parrot ~ ~ ~ {Owner:Username}

How to Use:

Using Birdcages

1. Right-click on a bird to capture it inside a birdcage.
2. To release the bird, place the cage block and then break it.
3. If you want to pick up the cage with the bird still inside, crouch while you break the cage block.

Working with Eggs

• Identify Eggs: Place an unidentified egg in the top slot of an Egg Identifier and redstone dust in the slot below it.
• Incubate Eggs: Put bird eggs in the top of an Egg Incubator and use blaze powder as fuel to warm them, increasing the hatch chance.

Learning About Birds

• Bird Encyclopedia: Craft this book by surrounding a regular book with feathers. Left-click a bird with the encyclopedia in hand to log its information.

Crafting Recipes:

Bird Meat

Bird Meat is dropped by all of the birds. Just place the raw meat in a furnace to cook yourself some tasty grub!

Book of Birds

This book tells you about all of the birds in game. It includes their picture, the scientific name and a little caption about them. It can be crafted using a normal book and a peacock feather, like so:

It starts off blank, so you will need to find the birds and left click them with the book to log them. This will reward you with xp.

Eggs

Eggs can be found in two ways: collected from nests, or laid by birds. All eggs have a 10% chance of spawning a chick when thrown. This can be increased up to 50% by crafting the eggs with blaze powder, adding 20% each time. Any attempt to increase after 50% will consume the powder, but not increase the chance.

There are also unidentifed eggs. These are black with a question mark on them. To indentify these, you must use the egg sorter.

Eggshell

This item will occasionally drop from nests, and also when you throw any of the bird eggs. It can be used like bonemeal to speed up the growth of plants and to grow flowers.

Egg Sorter

It can be crafted using the following recipe:

Placing unidentified eggs in the top slot and redstone dust in the bottom will result in the eggs being identified. This is not always successful and may produce eggshells.

Nests

Probably the most important part of the mod. You will find these nests sitting atop leaves in your world. Breaking them will drop 0-3 different bird eggs and some sticks. Empty nests can be crafted using the following recipe.

You may right click on the nests to open the GUI.

Peacock Feather

Dropped by peacocks, these feathers can be used to craft the Book of Birds.

Phoenix Dust

This dust is used to create a phoenix egg. It can be found as a rare item in abandoned mineshaft chests. One is dropped by a phoenix upon death.

Phoenix Egg

Phoenix eggs are used to hatch the mythical phoenix. They require a light level of 9, 10 or 11 to hatch (a flame particle effect will appear when the light level is suitable). These can be found as a rare item in a monster dungeon, extremely rarely found in nests, or crafted by surrounding a chicken egg in phoenix dust.

Phoenix Feather

Dropped by a phoenix upon death. This feather does not yet do anything.

Screenshots:

Cassowary

• Hearts: x 10
• Habitat: Forest, Birch Forest, Taiga, Savannah
• Tempted by: Apples.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very large, protective mob. It is passive, but when attacked will become hostile. The babies look different to the parents.

Duck

• Hearts: x 3
• Habitat: Rivers, Beaches
• Tempted by: Bread.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Varieties: 2
• Information: A small bird found by rivers and beaches. It makes the well known ‘quack’. The baby ducklings are yellow so you don’t know if it’s a duck or a drake until it grows up.

Flamingo

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: ?
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A fairly large pink bird. Can be found where there is water. They will stand on one leg to conserve body heat.

Gouldian Finch

• Hearts: x 3
• Habitat: Jungles
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
  Varieties: 6
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These small, colourful birds are found in jungles. They make quiet chirping sounds and prefer leaving on their own in the wild.

Hummingbird

• Hearts: x 1
• Habitat: Plains, Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest
• Tempted by: Sugar.
  Varieties: 5
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: These are very small, colourful birds that make a lot of noise. They hover around and flap their wings really fast. They can be attracted by holding sugar.
• Extra: Summon the different types by doing /summon exoticbirds.EB_Hummingbird ~ ~ ~ {Type:0-4}

Kingfisher

• Hearts: x 3
• Can be bred? No.
• Habitat: Beach, River, Swampland
• Information: These are small, quiet birds that live around water. Occasionally they will swoop in, retrieve a fish and fly around with it in their mouth.

Kiwi

• Hearts: x 2
• Habitat: Jungles, Forests
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very small bird. It lays the largest egg in relation to body size of any bird.

Lyrebird

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: ?
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 2
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Very clever birds capable of mimicking animals. During the day they will copy sheep/cow/pig noises and at night they will start replicating zombie/skeleton/creeper noises. The males have orange tail feathers, whereas the females do not.

Magpie

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest, Taiga
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These are medium sized walking birds. Occasionally they will ‘scavenge’ and hold something in their mouth. You can retrieve this item by hitting them, but it will take a while for them to scavenge again, or be more kind and ‘swap’ the item using wheat seeds. You can hear them via the chatter they make.
• Extra: Summon a magpie holding something with /summon exoticbirds.EB_Magpie ~ ~ ~ {Equipment:[{id:clock}]}. This was coded to support ingots and compasses, so some items such as swords render incorrectly.

Ostrich

• Hearts: x 11
• Habitat: Desert
• Tempted by: Apples.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These are enormous birds that can be found in dry biomes. They lay the largest egg of any other bird.

Owl

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Forests, Swamp
• Tempted by: Rotten Flesh.
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Owls are medium sized birds that will spawn in forests. They will normally only appear as individuals. They will fly away if attacked. Their eyes glow in the dark.

Parrot

• Hearts: x 4 (untamed) or x 10 (tamed)
• Habitat: Jungle, Forest, Birch Forest
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 4
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These colourful birds can be found in jungles. They can be tamed using wheat seeds and will follow you like wolves. You can also make them sit, walk or fly by right clicking them.
• Extra: Summon a tamed parrot using /summon exoticbirds.EB_Parrot ~ ~ ~ {Owner:Username}

Peafowl

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Plains, Jungle, Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These birds were the first bird to be added to the mod. They can be found wandering around the world. The peacocks can be told apart from the peahens by the colourful plumage. Right clicking a peacock will change whether its train (tail feathers) are open or closed. You can also mate two peafowl using wheat seeds! There is also an elusive Albino Peafowl. Rumours say it lays golden eggs.

Pelican

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Beach, River
• Tempted by: Fish.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Pelicans are fairly large birds that live by bodies of water.

Penguin

• Hearts: x 2 (Should be 5, but I messed up. Will be fixed next update)
• Habitat: Cold Taiga
• Tempted by: Fish.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Penguins are medium sized birds that live in cold biomes. They move pretty slowly, which is known as a waddle.

Phoenix

• Hearts: x 100
• Habitat: Does not spawn.
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: Phoenixes are large mythical creatures made out of fire. They can only be hatched out of Phoenix eggs with a light level of 9/10/11. Adult phoenixes can be saddled and flown. To fly up, look up. To fly down, look down. Upon death they drop a phoenix egg, so you will be able to rebirth your phoenix.

Pigeon

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Forests, Plains
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 2
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: Pigeons tend to be classed as vermin is certain areas of the world. In this mod there are two variants, the wood pigeon and the rock dove. They make a coo-ing noise so will be quite easy to find!

Roadrunner

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Desert, Mesa, Savannah
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very very fast desert bird. It doesn’t make much noise, but you won’t be able to miss it! To get close, you need to be holding wheat seeds.

Seagull

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Beach, River, Ocean
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: Seagulls will be found in near any biome with water. They will swoop round in circles and won’t stop!

Swan

• Hearts: x 6
• Habitat: Beach, River, Ocean
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 4
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These birds can be found in any biome by water. As this is their natural habitat, you will often find them swimming in rivers. You can hear them by the harsh honking sounds they make.

Toucan

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Jungle, Savannah
• Tempted by: Wheat seeds.
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: These birds can be found in tropical biomes. They have large colourful beaks and make a distinctive call.

Vulture

• Hearts: x 7
• Habitat: Desert, Mesa
• Tempted by: Meat.
• Can be bred? Yes.
• Information: A very large bird that can be found in deserts. They will fly into the sky and circle whilst looking for prey.

Woodpecker

• Hearts: x 4
• Habitat: Forest, Birch Forest, Roofed Forest
• Varieties: 3
• Can be bred? No.
• Information: You can find these birds high up in trees merrily pecking away holes. They will make a sound when doing so, meaning you will know when one is nearby. When disturbed they will fly to find another tree.

Exotic Birds Mod Download Links

For Minecraft 1.7.10

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For Minecraft 1.12.2

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For Minecraft 1.15.2

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For Minecraft 1.16.5

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For Minecraft 1.18.2

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For Minecraft 1.19

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For Minecraft 1.19.2

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For Minecraft 1.19.3

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For Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20

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