Thunderbird

Where to catch the Thunderbird

The Thunderbird lives in Mountains (zone 6 of 17), in the front part of the zone. It is number 3 of 7 in the Mountains index. A full-strength throw needs roughly 880 – 1,000 Throw Power to land in Mountains.

Foods that land here: Mushroom ($30B), Bacon (~$150B). A higher-tier food pushes the roll toward the rarer end of the Mountains list, so the newest food you own is always the best bait.

Any throw that lands in the front part of the zone can produce it. If you are hunting it for the index, lower your throw strength with the gear icon until the food lands on that spot – distance inside a zone decides which animals can come.

Is it worth keeping?

• A plain Thunderbird earns 13x a plain Seal, the best animal from Ocean.
• The best plain earner here is the Griffin ($2.5B/s), 3.1x this one.
• The first animal in Taiga, the Cockatrice, makes 10x as much – once your throws reach Taiga, replace it.
• Keep it longer only if it rolled a strong mutation or size (see the table below) or you need it for the index.

Thunderbird income by mutation and size

A plain Thunderbird makes $800M/s. Mutations and sizes multiply that number, and the two stack. The table below multiplies the plain income by the multipliers I have measured (Gold ×1.5, Diamond ×3, Emerald ×5, Ruby ×10, Rainbow ×20; Big ×2, Large ≈×4.3, Huge ≈×9, Colossal ≈×18.5, Gigantic ≈×37). Treat the size columns as estimates – real catches land a little above or below. With the 2x Cash gamepass every number doubles.

Thunderbird catches I've recorded

Real catch cards. Odds are the “1 in …” number the card shows, which already includes the luck of that throw.

Compared with other Mountains animals

Plain income of every Mountains animal, from the front of the zone to the top of its index (log scale).

• Llama$200M
• Capybara$500M
• Thunderbird$800M
• Bull$1B
• Yakno data
• Honey Badgerno data
• Griffin$2.5B