While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, Squawkabilly has four separate forms: Green Plumage, Blue Plumage, Yellow Plumage, and White Plumage.
Biology
Squawkabilly is an avian Pokémon resembling a parrot, with a large rounded yellow beak and lazy eyes. It has tan legs with feet shaped in a zygodactyl arrangement; i.e. two toes each on the front and back. Each toe is tipped with a yellow claw. Squawkabilly has a rounded, lumpy black crest on its head that resembles a pompadour, and white feathers on its eyelids, face, belly, and the tips of its wings. The rest of its feathers have different colorations depending on the form, which come in green, blue, yellow, and off-white. The feathers around the bottom of its body are notably longer, giving the appearance of a long coat.
Squawkabilly are known to be exceptionally noisy. They have a strong sense of community and dislike being alone, so they cooperate and form flocks that can contain more than fifty individuals based on the color of their feathers. In the mornings and evenings, they search for food in forests, towns, and cities; the latter is their preferred habitat, where they fight with other Squawkabilly of different plumes over territory. Green Plumage Squawkabilly make up the largest, most powerful groups, and are viewed by their Blue Plumage counterparts as rivals. Yellow Plumage Squawkabilly are especially fierce, engaging in vicious close combat and driving other bird Pokémon out of towns. White Plumage Squawkabilly have the fewest population numbers, although they are still able to hold territory because their feathers help them camouflage against the white buildings of cities. Squawkabilly once had violent territorial disputes with Fletchling, who inhabit the same rural and urban areas.
Squawkabilly has four separate forms: Green Plumage, Blue Plumage, Yellow Plumage, and White Plumage.
Green Plumage
Blue Plumage
Yellow Plumage
White Plumage
Game data
NPC appearances
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: A Blue Plumage Squawkabilly is a part of the Medali Gym challenge, providing a hint that the player should make a Medium order.
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation IX.
Squawkabilly has four different non-interchangeable forms, each with differently colored plumage. The only functional difference between the forms is their Hidden Abilities, with the Green Plumage and Blue Plumage forms having Guts and the Yellow Plumage and White Plumage forms having Sheer Force.
The Green Plumage and Blue Plumage forms of Squawkabilly made their debut in Someone We Can't See! Whosawhatsit?, as part of the PaldeaFlying Taxi flock. The flock consisted of two of each form of Squawkabilly, except White Plumage.
Squawkabilly, the Parrot Pokémon. A Normal and Flying type. Those with White Plumage are very sociable. When there is trouble, they survive by helping each other.
Squawkabilly debuted in PASV07. Katy mentioned that while on a trip to Artazon, she took a Flying Taxi that was held by four Squawkabilly of varying colors.
A Flying Taxi held by six Squawkabilly appeared in PASV16.
Squawkabilly's category suggests it is based on a parrot; it specifically resembles the monk parrot, an invasive species that forms large flocks in Spain and can have green, blue, yellow, or white plumage, with green being the most common. Madrid, and other large Spanish cities, have the largest populations of monk parakeets in Europe.[1][2][3] Its crest may also be loosely based on a cockatoo, particularly the red-tailed black cockatoo.
Squawkabilly's appearance and behavior may be based on punk or delinquent archetypes: the crest above its head resembles a pompadour hairstyle common to the type, and its behavior of flocking together based on plumage colors and being hostile to those of differently colored plumage may represent street gangs and gang violence. Its pompadour hairstyle and noisy behavior could also be inspired by the rocker subculture.
Name origin
Squawkabilly may be a combination of squawk, bill (beak), and rockabilly.
Ikirinko may be a combination of イキり ikiri (slang for a cocky person) and 鸚哥 inko (parrot).
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
↑Senar, J. C., Conroy, M. J. & Montalvo, T. (2021). In: Pruett-Jones, S. (ed.) Naturalized Parrots of the World: Distribution, Ecology, and Impacts of the World's Most Colorful Colonizers. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
↑Hernandez-Brito, Dailos; Carrete, Martina; Tella, Jose L. (2022). "Annual Censuses and Citizen Science Data Show Rapid Population Increases and Range Expansion of Invasive Rose-Ringed and Monk Parakeets in Seville, Spain". Animals. 12(6): 677. doi:10.3390/ani12060677. PMC 8944835. PMID 35327075.