Hybrid Birds
by Hybrid Labs
Hybrid Birds adds six new bird species to Minecraft, along with babies, eggs, food items and bird-related effects that change how the sky and ocean biomes feel during play.
What it does
Hybrid Birds introduces a set of new birds that spawn in the world, including Guinea Fowl, Seagull, Pelican and Albatross. Each bird has its own behavior: chickens that behave like the vanilla kind produce up to four keets when bred, and fed wheat fattens turkeys so they drop more meat when killed. Raw duck, raw goose and raw turkey combine into a Turducken dish, and raw puffin and cooked puffin give players a food source in cold, frozen ocean biomes.
Rooster behavior adds an effect that reaches the player. A rooster's calling gives a slight regeneration and saturation boost to a player who wakes up in a bed within 32 blocks, lasting until noon. Feeding glowberries makes a rooster aggressive for 10 seconds, so it fights other roosters nearby, and ocelots are scared away from the area. Ambient ocean mobs follow a player who holds a fish item.
The mod requires Fabric API, Fabric Language Kotlin, Geckolib, Hybrid API [HAPI] and Kotlin for Forge, depending on the loader. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with files covering 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, and it runs on both the client and the server, so both sides need it. The code is not open source; the mod is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Six new bird species
Guinea Fowl, Seagull, Pelican and Albatross join the sky and water, each with its own spawning and drops.
Rooster calling effect
A player who wakes in a bed within 32 blocks of a rooster gains slight regeneration and saturation until noon.
Turkey and duck food
Fed wheat fattens turkeys so they drop more meat, and raw duck, goose and turkey combine into a Turducken.
Cold ocean food
Puffins drop raw and cooked meat, a food source for players in frozen ocean biomes.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 4
How it compares
Sia's Gift is a Fabric-only mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.2, released under the MIT License and open source; it is client and server. Cats Love Tropical Fish too is server required with the client optional, under the MIT License and not open source, for 1.20.5 – 26.3 across all four loaders. Faunus runs on Fabric and Quilt for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 license, so it is not open source and is client and server. Hybrid Birds is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hybrid Birds | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-16 |
| Sia's Gift | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.20.2 | Client and server | 2025-07-13 |
| Cats Love Tropical Fish too | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.5 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-10-07 |
| Faunus | Fabric and Quilt | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-16 |
Questions
Does Hybrid Birds need Fabric API?
Does the server need Hybrid Birds installed?
Which loader should be chosen for Hybrid Birds?
In the catalog
Hybrid Birds is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Hybrid Birds is a mod focusing on adding a variety of new birds to the world of Minecraft, with six new birds currently in the mod (plus babies!) As the mod progresses, we plan to heavily expand Minecraft's skies with new features, ranging from birds and bats to blocks and items, completely overhauling the aerial…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/hybrid-birds
- Owner
- Hybrid Labs
- Published
- 2025-08-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15