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What animal do you think Pidgey was based on?

what was Pidgey created after?

  • Female Cardinal

    Votes: 3 7.3%

  • Pigeon

    Votes: 36 87.8%

  • Hawk

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • Owl?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    41

Umberchips

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I always thought Pidgey was based off a sparrow mainly because of it's colouring and shape but who knows.
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PageEmp

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Possibly a bird in general. I love how this thread has been revived so much. I remember even seing it back when I joined this sit.
 
Sheep

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It looks like your typical sparrow:

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To the point where I have no idea why spearow's name is closer to sparrow than pidgey haha
 
Uecil

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A sparrow! At first I would've said Pidgeon, but it looks too close to a sparrow to me.
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icycatelf

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I'd say that it's just a generic bird, drawing inspiration from various species. However, if I had to pick a single species that most reminds me of Pidgey, I'd have to go with the Carolina Wren. Just give it a thicker beak and ruffle its "hair" a bit and voila!

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EDIT: Pidgey also bears some resemblance to the Horned/Shore Lark.

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Kr1ptyx_

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for anyone looking at this in the future because the thread is pretty old I want you to look up what a house finch looks like and i think that is the bird that looks the most like pidgey
 
Sheep

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Kr1ptyx_ said:
for anyone looking at this in the future because the thread is pretty old I want you to look up what a house finch looks like and i think that is the bird that looks the most like pidgey
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That's really interesting and I can definitely see it being true. Though the sparrow still looks really close to me too!

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rottingradiance

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Honestly, pidgey kinda looks like a chukar partidge to me. Pinkish beak and legs, that weird stripe thing by its eyes, and it's brown.
 
Geewithabee

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Pidgey's design is an amalgamation of the following:

a homing pigeon
a sparrow
a cedar waxwing
a carolina wren
a chickadee
 

DelibirdTrainer

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Pigeon. My argument is that in Gen 1 the majority of pokemon had their names based on an animal or an object attached to their bodies
 
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