Parrot

The Parrot is a wild paper flier that you never fold yourself. Instead, a Perch draws them in from the wilds over time. When no enemy is near they mostly roost on the Perch — flying home and settling onto it, dropping little cosmetic messes under the roost while they perch — and they only take off to swoop down and peck at air and ground threats when a foe wanders close.

A Perch draws in 2 Parrots — the first about 60 seconds after it is built, the second around 120 seconds — and they roost on its crossbars between fights. Each one is killable, but the Perch keeps replacing losses as long as it stands, so a defended roost stays stocked. Parrots are also unaffected by Ink Storms, riding out weather that would soak other folds.

Parrots are wild — you attract them, you don’t command them. They can’t be selected or given orders, and they cost nothing against your population. They simply defend their roost on their own.

Strategy

Parrots are passive defense you get for the price of a building. You do not command them into fights — when the coast is clear they settle onto the Perch and leave their little messes beneath it, and they only launch to dive on air and ground attackers that stray near, raking them with quick 3-damage pecks before returning to the roost. On their own they are frail and hit softly, so lean on them for early warning and harassment around a forward Perch rather than as a main force. Note the catch: while a Parrot swoops low to attack a ground target, it dips briefly into reach of ground and melee units, who can swat it out of the air during — or just after — its dive, roughly a half-second window. That is a real vulnerability, so don’t rely on Parrots against massed infantry. Their real strength is persistence: as long as the Perch survives, shot-down Parrots come back, making a Perch-and-Parrot cluster a stubborn thing to clear.