Coo Intelligence Agency

The premise

Two documents. One bird.

Every asset comes as a dossier: a sincere, fact-checked field guide — and the Bureau's increasingly nervous internal reframe, half of it redacted. Same bird. Same fact. One of them is the cover story.

Field Guide · Section A

American Crows gather around their dead. Researchers have documented these "funerals": the flock falls silent, observes, and remembers the place for years.

Bureau Internal · Section B

The gatherings are ██████████, not funerals. Each asset reports what it saw before ████████. We have lost the ability to █████████████. Section A is what we tell the civilians.

The collectible is the lore — not stats. The redactions are the joke. The list is where the blackouts come off early.

From the active file

Six declassified assets. The rest of the roster is on a need-to-know basis.

Rock Pigeon — Bureau surveillance asset AS-CITY-0001 — Rock Pigeon AS-CITY-0001 Seventh-generation hardware. They are looking rough. This is █████████ with what civilians observe.

American Crow — Bureau surveillance asset AS-CITY-0009 — American Crow AS-CITY-0009 Remembers a human face for years. We are strongly advised not to ██████████ the corvid program.

Clark's Nutcracker — Bureau surveillance asset AS-GROUND-0002 — Clark's Nutcracker AS-GROUND-0002 Recovers tens of thousands of buried caches from memory. Onboard storage flagged as ████████.

Great Horned Owl — Bureau surveillance asset AS-BIGBIRD-0001 — Great Horned Owl AS-BIGBIRD-0001 Runs the night shift unsupervised. Subject of Standing Order ██. Do not approach the ██████.

Southern Cassowary — Bureau surveillance asset AS-BIGBIRD-0004 — Southern Cassowary AS-BIGBIRD-0004 Classified as ██████████. The Bureau did not authorize the legs. The Bureau cannot recall the legs.

Shoebill — Bureau surveillance asset AS-WATER-0010 — Shoebill AS-WATER-0010 Stands motionless for hours at a stretch. We are no longer certain it is ████████████.

+170 more assets across seven tiers — classified. The full roster ships in the game; the leaks ship to the list.

Recruiting

Apply for Field Analyst clearance.

Submit your address and you'll be notified the moment clearance opens — first access, the launch-day briefing, and the declassified dossiers the Bureau never publishes publicly.

We do not share your file. (We have enough files.)

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Cleared questions

What is this?

A satirical idle/tycoon mobile game. You run a bureaucratic intelligence agency whose field assets are, regrettably, all the birds. It is played for the writing — the dossiers, the redactions, the memos — as much as the numbers going up.

Is the bird stuff actually real?

Yes. The field-guide half of every dossier is real ornithology, fact-checked. The Bureau's interpretation of those facts is where we take liberties. The birds are not editorialized; the agency is.

What do I get for joining the list?

Declassified dossiers we don't publish anywhere else, the launch-day briefing, and first access when clearance opens. The list is the only place the redactions come off early.

Wait — isn't this that "birds are drones" thing?

That's the cultural water we swim in, the way an office sitcom lives downstream of every office. Coo is its own thing: the joke here is the bureaucracy — the deadpan agency that has to file paperwork on a continent of uncountable warblers and accept gifts it is afraid to refuse. Our designations, our memos, our coinage. No affiliation with anyone else's.

What does it cost?

Free to play. No pay-to-win — the legendary and mythic assets are hard to earn and never sold for money. Purchases, if you make them, are lore unlocks and cosmetics.

When does it come out?

To be determined — clearance applicants are notified first.

Who makes it?

Aviary Bureau LLC. One developer, working with AI tooling, and a great many birds who did not consent.