While it is not known toevolve into or from any other Pokémon, Squawkabilly has four separateforms:Green Plumage,Blue Plumage,Yellow Plumage, andWhite Plumage.
Squawkabilly is an avianPokémon that resembles aparrot. The main color of its plumage comes in, from most to least common, green, blue, yellow, and off-white, but all forms of Squawkabilly have white feathers on their breast, abdomen, and wingtips, as well as white eyelids. The feathers on its sides are noticeably longer, giving off the impression of a long coat, and the ones on the back of its neck are fluffier. It has a rounded yellow beak, lazy eyes with a dotted pupil, and a lumpy,pompadour-like black crest running on top of its head. Its tan feet are shaped in azygodactyl arrangement (i.e. two toes each on the front and back) and have a yellow claw on each toe.
Squawkabilly are known to be exceptionally noisy and territorial, especially amongst their different varieties. They have a strong sense of community and dislike being alone, so they cooperate and form flocks that can contain more than fifty individuals based on the color of their feathers. In the mornings and evenings, they search around for food in forests, towns, and cities, the latter of which is their preferred habitat. Squawkabilly once had violent territorial disputes withFletchling, who inhabit the same rural and urban areas.
Green Plumage Squawkabilly are the most numerous, due to their coloration being the likeliest to pass down onto offsprings, make up the most powerful flocks, and are viewed by Blue Plumage Squawkabilly as rivals. Yellow Plumage Squawkabilly are hotheaded and particularly fierce, engaging in vicious close combat and even driving other bird Pokémon out of their turf, in an attempt to be taken seriously by the most populous varieties. On the other hand, White Plumage Squawkabilly are mellow, preferring to avoid conflicts, but are said to fight valiantly when threatened. Despite having the fewest numbers, they are able to live peacefully in towns due to their off-white plumage, which allows them to blend in with the white buildings of the urban landscape.
Squawkabilly has four different non-interchangeable forms, each with differently colored plumage. The only functional difference between the forms is theirHidden Abilities, with the Green Plumage and Blue Plumage forms havingGuts and the Yellow Plumage and White Plumage forms havingSheer Force.
The Green Plumage and Blue Plumage forms of Squawkabilly made their debut inSomeone We Can't See! Whosawhatsit?, as part of thePaldeaFlying Taxi flock. The flock consisted of two of each form of Squawkabilly, except White Plumage.
Squawkabilly, the Parrot Pokémon. ANormal andFlying type. Those withWhite Plumage are very sociable. When there is trouble, they survive by helping each other.
Squawkabilly's category suggests it is based on aparrot; it specifically resembles themonk parrot, an invasive species that forms large flocks inSpain and can have green, blue, yellow, or white plumage, with green being the most common.Madrid, and other large Spanish cities, have the largest populations of monk parakeets in Europe.[1][2][3] Its crest may also be loosely based on acockatoo, particularly thered-tailed black cockatoo.
Squawkabilly's appearance and behavior may be based on the punk archetype: the crest above its head resembles apompadour hairstyle common to the type. Its pompadour and noisy behavior could also be inspired by therocker subculture.
Name origin
Squawkabilly may be a combination ofsquawk,bill (beak), androckabilly.
Ikirinko may be a combination of イキりikiri (slang for a cocky person) and 鸚哥inko (parrot).
↑Senar, J. C., Conroy, M. J. & Montalvo, T. (2021). In: Pruett-Jones, S. (ed.)Naturalized Parrots of the World: Distribution, Ecology, and Impacts of the World's Most Colorful Colonizers. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
↑Hernandez-Brito, Dailos; Carrete, Martina; Tella, Jose L. (2022). "Annual Censuses and Citizen Science Data Show Rapid Population Increases and Range Expansion of Invasive Rose-Ringed and Monk Parakeets in Seville, Spain".Animals. 12(6): 677. doi:10.3390/ani12060677. PMC 8944835. PMID 35327075.
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