Since you mentioned being a newer user and this happening to you, do you mind if I ask a few questions?

1. Is this the first year you participated? (I see your account is a bit over a year old so I wanted to ask)
2. If you participated last year, do you remember being asked for that bird that you are having issues with?
3. When you are searching, are you going to the pages one at a time or are you pulling up multiple tabs?

I asked and they thought that it was an issue with people only being able to find a regional bird once per account, but if you haven't participated before then that wouldn't be it.

Everyone, please bear in mind that just because you do not get a post from staff, doesn't mean it isn't being looked into! I apologize for not answering sooner, I had a medical emergency recently so I have not been well. (not an excuse and I am doing much better, just letting you know!)

Hi, everyone! I'm eventing everyone who has posted here so you can get a bit of an update as well as a chance to release some of the frustration you've had over bird watching!

I'm so sorry I didn't reply here. I honestly thought I did when I was working with to try to recreate some of the issues y'all were having.

This is not the end of bird watching this year. I'm going to sit down with soon to figure out why the regional birds weren't popping up along with some of the newer bird friends. Generally, in the past, users could just grab a bird from user shops if it never popped up around the site for them and show it to the NPC for the quest.

That wasn't working, from what I've read here / been told in various places / discussed with . Even when people would only use one window so the bird wouldn't be overwritten in another (like with floating pumpkins/flowers/etc), birds still didn't show. Even using the custom code to make floaters pop up in the corner instead of having to scroll and hope to spot bird.

While I recently left one of my jobs, my other non-subeta job had some very serious deadlines this past week (hello Jewish holidays coming up soon!!!), so I couldn't sit down and devote a lot of time to for birds undisturbed.

Once we determine why the birds were being rude and make the necessary adjustments, I will bring them back. We'll also look at bug catching, too, to make sure nothing funky will happen there.

Feel free to ping me with any concerns, even if it's to stress something that's been discussed on this thread already (frustration with lack of communication, why hasn't achievement been updated all these years, etc etc etc). Angry? Sure. Totally get that. Let it out! I won't get upset if y'all vent at me, as long as you remain respectful to me and other users.