Thanks to the super sleuthing abilities of @Dr-Omega and abhijit, we have a first peek at a new bird coming to the Angry Birds franchise. Based on the picture posted by Rovio on their social media channels, it definitely seems to be a female pink bird (also being called the “Girlie Bird”)! This would be the first undeniably-female Angry Bird (since Jewel is a separate character who joined the Birds in Rio, and there is a cloud of controversy regarding the White Bird’s gender — though Rovio has addressed that before).
Update August 8th: We now know that the pink bird will appear in the Angry Birds Seasons Back to School update. This article also contains more info about the pink bird’s power / ability.
Back to topic. Here, we will only post the images that Rovio themselves have posted on their social media channels. But if you want a true spoiler, check out ToyWiz.com. They only sell Rovio-official plushies, so I think it’s pretty legitimate. Note that the product description is quite inaccurate, but other than that, you get the idea of roughly what the bird may look like.
I am guessing Rovio will continue to post teasers about this, and at this time there is an innumerable number of questions about this bird. What app will it first be released in? What apps will it inevitably be released in? When will it appear? What will its ability be? In any case, it will be exciting to watch for!
Update Aug. 07: A special thanks goes out to Rick Keyser who presented a truly-inspired guess to the release of the Female Pink Bird (now being called the “Girlie Bird” after some additional merchandise was found). His idea is that the Pink Bird will be released in a new episode of Angry Birds Seasons centered around the Chinese holiday of the Qixi Festival. This holiday, sometimes called Chinese Valentine’s Day, revolves around a love story, occurs at night (thus the caption “Who turned out the lights?”), and involves magpies. What’s better? Qixi Festival this year occurs on August 23rd, which fits the bill in oh-so-many ways. It’s a Thursday (Rovio’s favorite day to release updates, apparently). It’s about 2 weeks away, which is within the realm of Rovio’s teaser lengths. And finally, it a Far Eastern theme, which has been a major theme of the 2012 “Seasons” packages and part of Rovio’s expanding market. Is all this definite? Absolutely not. But we love to speculate since Rovio loves to tease.
Thanks to @lostgreybird, @dr-omega, and @oldmanbird for their contributions as well.
Interesting! Can’t wait to see it in-game! And also, don’t forget that there was a female red bird in Hogs and Kisses.
Not playable. Only in credits. I only count playable birds.
Interesting. I wonder what her power will be
I’d like to see an egg strafing capability. That is multiple egg bombs in a single pass.
I think it can puff up to bigger size like orange bird but it will be lighter and rise upwards to pop balloons :)
I think she would scream loud and break ice (For some reason I have a strong feeling it is the Red Bird’s Sister.
maybe she will be the first bird to hatch from an egg?
new bird means a lot more levels, woo!
This is interesting! But i hope she’ll really come to AB soon!
i wonder which game?
Space? Seasons? original? rio?
they havn’t made any updates for angry birds rio since april 13th.
Angry Birds Rio is done unless the movie Rio contunes with a new movie
I have actually seen evidence of a second movie, but I don’t have a link to the teaser pic. I saw. :(
One teaser pick link, coming right up:
http://rio.wikia.com/wiki/Rio_2
Tentative release date is March or April of 2014. Gonna be a long wait.
I think it the update will be for seasons. What holidays are coming up?
There’s haloween, but that’s not for quite a while. I bet rovio will invent something, like when they made the piglantis episode.
so the white bird’s a female. i guess she is especially when you shoot the egg out of her!
Hoping the Nat Geo AB book coming in September will clear up the White Bird gender issue..
A video promoting the Coca-Cola AB Web Game with a female looking white bird. Also, the Rovio employee who linked it here says she’s female.
Yep. White Bird is a Girly Bird for sure. Guess it would be easier for some to see if she had a bow or something on her.
But in Angry Birds Season, if you choose Hogs and Kisses, the angry birds’ title is accompanied with white bird in bow, the real girl.
I still have doubt about the original white bird as a girl.
For a long time, I thought Orange Bird is female.
orange looks nothing but male :S
I think she will appear first in Seasons.
i dont care if she is the first female bird or not but i want her to be in Angry birds Space
I don’t think so.
The pink bird most likely as a space alter ego, so rovio would need to show the normal bird first.
what about ice.hrm.if you saw a few cuts. and look att the background theres a million eggstroids.
It will not show up in Seasons, because Valentines day is over. I think it will fallow up in the “Surf and Turf” level pack because it hasn’t fully come yet. I don’t think that it was the first female because in the “Hogs and Kisses” in Angry Bird Seasons the Red Female Bird appeared in several images and the logo for that month, so also the egg-dropping female white bird.
Can’t be Surf and Turf. We already know the last 15 levels from Facebook. The fact that Valentine’s Day has passed seems irrelevant.
If that white bird is a female (yes I have seen the illustration where “it” is wearing the ribbon in “its” hair), then it has to be the ugliest female I have ever seen. I hope that comment doesn’t offend anyone. ;)
@dollarbill2208, got a little song for ya: ‘Bill, she loves you so and always will….”. WB may not be ‘beautiful’ (according to who’s idea of that?) but she sure can drop those eggs. Strategically, her ability to do the egg drop comes in quite handy and the other birds might be lost without her. :-)
lol
Well it might not be on surf and turf but it can be on an update on pigin beach.?
Could, though we would of course need to finish Surf and Turf very very quickly (unlikely since the middle chapter was just released last week) in order to start a new episode.
New bird!?Maybe it will come on seasons.New birds come there first.Makeup power.Egg power.Who knows?
I’ll say this about the White Bird, if Rovio says female, it’s female.
Back on topic, this is pretty interesting! Perhaps it will have some sort of egg power because only female birds lay eggs. Or something to do with hearts(I kinda get that feeling from this).
People keep disregarding the White Bird from Hogs and Kisses. If the White Bird was female, why was a new White Bird created? http://angrybirds.wikia.com/wiki/Female_White_Bird
AB Wiki is open-source. Anyone can add anything. Rovio’s statement, linked above, is as conclusive as it gets.
However, there are two white birds – the original and the one with the bow in its hair from the Valentines update. Rovio did not specify which one they were referring to..
Oh.. and technically Coco-bird is a third ;)
I was only linking AB Wiki for the image.
Wow look at this {broken link removed} When did Rovio make an Xbox game.They did not say it was released.
Gamestop says it will be released September 25
We reported something like this a little while ago.
The website says it will be shipped in October. Maybe that means the bird will be added for a Halloween update in Seasons. I really hope so.
New female bird, great.
Makes one wonder about her game format:
1. In the new Mars game levels for Space this Fall.
2. In the last 15 levels of Surf and Turf, at the beach.
3. In a 2012 Seasons addition with women worldwide themes, holidays, events, etc.
4. Or a whole new AB Game, now that would be something on the creative and marketing end of the business.
Also, what will be her powers to destroy the pigs?
I agree : but do you guys remember that ROVIO say long time ago many months : that they will release 5 new games : I counted only 3 :These ABSpace Amazing Alex and ABFiends at Facebook : wich one I am mising ; or I am right …!!! Know the the female Pink Bird will come in an other new game or just on and update…!!!
@wrw01 and @nacho18 … so we hope on a new AB Game!!! Looking forward :-)
1) Possibly, but with the recent addition of Orange Bird, perhaps a little unlikely?
2) No, we have already seen the last 15 levels of S&T via Facebook. I don’t expect such a drastic change.
3) I think Seasons is most likely. Perhaps not a female-centric episode (Women’s History Month is in March), but I like Seasons most.
4) Also possible, though I would have expected teasers for the app before teasers for a bird.
$) They showed teasers for Super Red Bird before teasers for Angry Birds Space.
By a few hours: https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-they-are-coming-teaser/
doesn’t matter if it’s by a few hours or one second, they showed SRB first.
Fine, I’m still. It expecting this to be a new app tho. Just my opinion.
I also said “I would have expected”, not “there must be”.
If it is a new app, what would be a good theme for Girly bird to be in?
@BBinMiami – why does there have to be a specific gender theme to have a female bird? Can they just have one to have one? Saying they need to have a feminine theme in order to have a female bird comes off as a bit sexist..
And the female’s special ability will be even more dramatic than any other bird. You just watch.
Wherever or whenever she appears, don’t you think it will be soon? How far in advance would they tease a new bird? What’s the next most likely update?
I’ve been in this biz long enough to know not to put timeframes on Rovio ;)
on a Thursday :D
maby like on space teaser of rb their might be more birds
Cool! I hope she join one of the games soon! But what power will she have?
i want to kcnow what its her special trait !
Sounds almost like you are hitting on her ;)
i just pre-ordered her
You’re referring to the plush, I take it?
yeah
I wonder if she has an effect on the other existing birds? Maybe their abilities become stronger so that they can impress her? She’d be like a multiplier. Just a theory – I have nothing to base it on.
That is beilliant idea! Like Mighty Eagle ( but i hope than it will be free!)
Yeeeeah a birddie Lady :-)
This is inconsistent: two birds with nearly the same ability of each other, just a little different? And the same appearance?
which birds are you referring to? We don’t know the Girly Bird’s power yet..
White Bird and this new bird.
There is nothing known about the “Pink Bird” power. And it certainly doesn’t look too much like the White bird.
FYI – The Action Game Pink Bird add-on has her name as “Girly Bird.” Not sure how official that is, but it is an officially licensed product, so chances are very high.
There’s also some discrepancy on other names — e.g., “Toucan” for the Boomerang Bird, “Monster Bird” for Space v of Terence, etc. I wouldn’t weigh too too much until we see Rovio’s stuff :)
Yay, a new bird! :D I wonder what the special ability will be? When the new egg levels came out for space, all the ideas are used already… Or are they? We will soon find out…
Wow! I think the white bird is a female, because the GC achievement for unlocking it is “Mother of all bombs.” Anyway, I expect it will come out for seasons, because there has been big updates for the other games except for that.
look over the eyes of the image, you can see the bird’s eyebrows
Awesome looking forward to the new bird! :)
Since it pink, I was thinking it might be a pink flamingo, with it long legs.. I never saw a flamingo fly so I wonder we might see our first ground base bird. I saw a lot of them in Florida in the Miami area they tend to socialize together in groups, maybe a Facebook game?
I’ve doodled a Flamingo AB bird, but Flamingos have black beaks and she has a yellow one, so she’s not a flamingo. Also, you can see she is round like the rest of the Flock, no legs, in the plush versions.
What great hypotheses on what the new AB Girl Bird will be like! Perhaps she will be like “Mata Hari” and be deceptively flirty towards the ignorant piggies? Then she’ll just smack them down with their smirking faces! Yeah. If Pink Bird is in AB Space, maybe she’ll have the ability to shoot laser balls from her winking, blinking eyes? That might be cool.
It might be a power like the Angry Birds Cheetos bag! For example, it might act like a bomb and release 3 or 4 small heart bombs, and not be able to use her power after hitting a structure like the white bird. Being both female. This is not fact, just an Idea.
This may be a hint for a gender bender game!
Maybe
With Queen Pig, Female Mustache Pig, Female Helmet, Female Blue and everyone else!
@lolwutburger Female Mustache Pig? A girl pig with facial hair? :S
I’m going with a seasons release within the next month for her and here’s why:
1: she is not a space bird. her coloring is pretty flat like the other regular birds. The space birds have more gradients and shading, more detail. I know you only see her eye lids but I think it’s enough.
2: it’s def not surf and turf or ABO because we just got one and the final 15 are already on Facebook meaning the wont add a new bird in for the mobile release once the levels have already been designed and bird order has been made.
3: we know the next update for space is Mars and comig in the fall. Since I mentioned I don’t think she is a space release above that means she is coming before the fall.
4: Seasons is the only plausible conclusion since , IMO Rio is done (until the movie sequel release).
My deduction is that it will be release next thurs or the following in a Chinese Holiday themed update. This thurs is just too close.
ABR isn’t done. ABR hasn’t been updated in ages so I would like to see pink bird in Rio.It would be very interesting
How is Rio going to continue? They finished the whole story that was In the movie. There is no other plot to build around & they already gave us the extra Trophy Room levels as a bonus. I just can’t see how Rio would add new levels. It would be great if I were wrong.
there is news of a rio 2 coming out
Yes, I know, thats why I commented “until the sequel”. It’ll be tough because I don’t think it will come out until 2014. By then they’ll probably need to make a whole new app.
I think what Rovio will do for the Rio sequel is what they did for Seasons. Add a new menu level for Rio and Rio 2.
I fully agree.
Note this what Rovio said in the latest update: “This is not the final update to the game, so stay tuned!”