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Boomerang Bird is a character in the Angry Birds series of games created by Rovio Entertainment. He was introduced in 2010 and was the first new character added to the game who was not one of the original five birds in the flock.

Boomerang Bird first appeared in level 6-4 of the episode Danger Above as a non-playable character (NPC) but was playable starting with level 6-5. He has appeared as a playable character in every version and episode of the game released since his introduction, though he is not necessarily in all levels. In the Fuji TV exclusive episode: Sakura Ninja, Boomerang appears dressed in kendo garb. This was the first time he has appeared in costume in any game and completely new game sprites were created for this episode.

Ability
Boomerang Bird flies much differently than the other species. When he launches, he's constantly spinning. This spinning plays into its special ability to change its course in midair to return to his point of origin. When the screen is tapped or clicked by the mouse (depending on which version of the game the player uses), the Boomerang Bird will open its large beak wide, making it act like a boomerang and causing it to turn around and start flying back to his point of origin. This ability to fly backwards allows it to strike areas that the other birds can't reach. Note, The longer a player waits to activate the boomerang feature, the lower the hit will be.

Personal Data

 * Name: Boomerang Bird
 * Known Aliases: Green Bird, Toucan Bird
 * Fan Aliases: None
 * Group Affiliation: The Flock
 * Known Relatives: None

Personality
Boomerang Bird has a short temper when it comes to egg theft and, like most of the Flock, become enraged easily when eggs are discovered missing. Little is known about his personality and demeanor at this time.

History
Little is known about Boomerang Bird’s history before he met The Flock. When first seen, Boomerang was a prisoner of the Bad Piggies until The Flock freed him.

One summer, while The Flock was fighting the Pigs and having difficulty destroying their fortress, Boomerang Bird tried to help. Unfortunately, due to his smaller stature, he had difficulty climbing the slingshot and caused White Bird to fall. Red Bird refused any further help and indicated for Boomerang to leave. After The Flock had exhausted themselves trying to break the Pig fortress, Boomerang came back, climbed the slingshot and used his unique ability to recover the eggs and destroy the fortress. He was then welcomed as a member of The Flock and one of The Blues awarded him three stars.

Main article: Summer Pignic Short Movie

thumb|left|400px|A "Summer Pignic" Mini

In the course of the battles with the Pigs, he has traveled to many different locations and environments, including the desert, underground caves and beaches. The Pigs never rest in their quest to steal eggs and the Flock often has to retrieve their eggs on holidays and special occasions. In one instance, the Pigs captured the entire Flock, including Boomerang Bird, making it the second time he was captured by Pigs. It was only for the actions of Terence, the Big Brother Bird that the Flock was freed. Terence freed Boomerang Bird and the two of them rescued The Flock and defeated the King Pig.

At an indeterminate time later, the Flock was captured as rare birds and taken to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where they fought with Blu and Jewel and their friends against Nigel the cockatoo and Mauro and his marmosets. Boomerang Bird did not appear originally in Rio, but arrived much later after the others, so it is possible he was not captured originally and made his way to Rio to help rescue The Flock. Main article: Angry Birds Rio

In addition to Rio, Boomerang Bird has also traveled to China twice and Japan, where he wore kendo gear.

In another adventure, many of the Flock were whisked into Space via a wormhole, gained super powers and fought the Space King and the Space Pigs. White Bird, Boomerang Bird and Orange Bird appear to have been left behind on the island to protect the eggs. Main article: Angry Birds Space

Trivia

 * Even though Boomerang Bird has green feathers, yellow ones appear when he disintegrates after becoming a corpse. In Angry Birds Chrome and Angry Birds Facebook, green feathers appear (an earlier version of the Chrome version had white feathers).
 * The Boomerang Bird will make the Yellow Bird's pain noises when being a corpse, thus making it the only bird without an original pain noise.
 * Boomerang bird is also the only bird that rotates while flying from the slingshot.
 * The Boomerang Bird has a different launch voice on Angry Birds Seasons as of the Ham'o'ween update. However, the PC and Mac version of Angry Birds Classic also has the alternative voice of the bird. The phone version of the original Angry Birds has the original select and launch voice. The original voice is a sound of a bird chirping noise while the new voice used on Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Classic is a "WAHAAAA!" sound.
 * The Boomerang bird is the only Bird that is shown in the level before is played in as an unplayable item.
 * On Chrome level 6-4 his corpse sprite disappears and is invisible, but when you unlock him, his corpse sprite will be the Angry Birds Rio sprite and he keeps the Yellow Bird pain noises but the feathers change from yellow ones to white ones.
 * The Boomerang Bird may be based upon the Emerald Toucanet.
 * Boomerang Birds end of beak has red in the old design but in game he has orangish yellow at the end of beak
 * In Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Facebook, Angry Birds (Google Chrome), the Boomerang Birds has a new design.

Appearances
Boomerang Bird has appeared in the following games:
 * Angry Birds
 * Angry Birds Rio
 * Angry Birds Seasons
 * Angry Birds Facebook
 * Angry Birds Chrome
 * Angry Birds Google+
 * Angry Birds Magic
 * Angry Birds in The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio
 * Angry Birds Vuela Tazos
 * Angry Birds Winter Wonderland
 * Angry Birds Fuji TV

Advantages and Disadvantages
The Boomerang Bird is very good against wood and glass, but not great against stone. When his ability is used, it's often the longer (eventually a set time) the bird can break through entire columns of wood and glass. Another way to use the Boomerang Bird is by firing it backwards and using it's ability to cause it to fly forwards.

A common disadvantage is when Boomerang Bird is fired straight into the air, it's hard to arc him perfectly when he approaches the ground. Sometimes he will hit the ground and become a corpse immediately when he goes out of range. {C}