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Happy New Year!

One of my goals in 2024 is to expand this little project of Pokémon reinterpretations with two new things: a better worldbuilding (maps, natural history and maybe lore) and work on species from other generations.

As a celebration of the holydays and these new goals, I decided to bring one of the most festive species that is known, the delivery Pokémon!

Oh! I recorded the whole process of drawing this, there is no fancy edit or music, but you can check it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=znLdhK…

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The Delibird (Erythrogallus caudatus) is a big and loud phasianoid bird found in taiga forests and tundra of the Northern Johto. With males reaching up to 60cm tall and 8kg, these creatures are one of the heaviest birds of the region.

Mediocre flyers, delibirds are non migratory birds that evolved to endure the harsh winters with interesting adaptations such as insulating feathering, large and thick feet to transverse snowy terrain and a fat storing organ known as tail bundle. This structure is located above the tail and is often mistaken as the true tail of the bird. A healthy specimen in a good foraging area during summer can spend the whole winter without having to feed by living with the tail bundle’s resources.

This bird is surrounded by popular tales of bringing food to those in need during the winter, often even seen as a gift giver to those who are in need, but the truth is that the colorful males are an easy target during winter and the presence of the fat rich tail bundle makes them an important resource for locals in times of food shortage.

Male delibirds develop a remarkable breeding plumage developed during the winter: an intense red body, a mask of white feathers with tufts above the eyes, and other patches of white feathers along the body. Females are more discrete, with cryptic coloration and once were even mistaken as a different species.

The males perform loud calls that can be heard from long distances in the icy tundra, attracting interested females that are kept in harems until the first signs of the end of the winter, when they finally mate and the hens are able to build their nests.

Delibirds are generally not threatened by human activity due to their northern range, with only a few populations exposed to overhunting and deforestation. There is a small population introduced by humans in some snow covered mountains of the Alolan Archipelago, but there is little to no information about population size and habits of those delibirds.

Description

Happy New Year!

One of my goals in 2024 is to expand this little project of Pokémon reinterpretations with two new things: a better worldbuilding (maps, natural history and maybe lore) and work on species from other generations.

As a celebration of the holydays and these new goals, I decided to bring one of the most festive species that is known, the delivery Pokémon!

Oh! I recorded the whole process of drawing this, there is no fancy edit or music, but you can check it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=znLdhK…

…………………………

The Delibird (Erythrogallus caudatus) is a big and loud phasianoid bird found in taiga forests and tundra of the Northern Johto. With males reaching up to 60cm tall and 8kg, these creatures are one of the heaviest birds of the region.

Mediocre flyers, delibirds are non migratory birds that evolved to endure the harsh winters with interesting adaptations such as insulating feathering, large and thick feet to transverse snowy terrain and a fat storing organ known as tail bundle. This structure is located above the tail and is often mistaken as the true tail of the bird. A healthy specimen in a good foraging area during summer can spend the whole winter without having to feed by living with the tail bundle’s resources.

This bird is surrounded by popular tales of bringing food to those in need during the winter, often even seen as a gift giver to those who are in need, but the truth is that the colorful males are an easy target during winter and the presence of the fat rich tail bundle makes them an important resource for locals in times of food shortage.

Male delibirds develop a remarkable breeding plumage developed during the winter: an intense red body, a mask of white feathers with tufts above the eyes, and other patches of white feathers along the body. Females are more discrete, with cryptic coloration and once were even mistaken as a different species.

The males perform loud calls that can be heard from long distances in the icy tundra, attracting interested females that are kept in harems until the first signs of the end of the winter, when they finally mate and the hens are able to build their nests.

Delibirds are generally not threatened by human activity due to their northern range, with only a few populations exposed to overhunting and deforestation. There is a small population introduced by humans in some snow covered mountains of the Alolan Archipelago, but there is little to no information about population size and habits of those delibirds.