Bird Keeper

A Bird Keeper (Japanese: とりつかい Bird Tamer) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that first debuted in the Generation I games. They are generally depicted as young men carrying bird cages, except in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, in which they are female. Their design in HeartGold and SoulSilver appears to have been intended as a male version of the Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum design. They seem to be very into bird-keeping and keep many Bird Pokémon in their cages as pets.

They specialize in Flying-type Pokémon that are based on birds, like Pidgeot.

Appearance

Bird Keeper Sprites Image from Red and Blue Image from Gold, Silver, and Crystal Image from Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald Image from FireRed and LeafGreen Image from Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum Image from HeartGold and SoulSilver

Trainer List

Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal

Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald

Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen

Pokémon Diamond/Pearl

Trivia

• Bird Keepers have only appeared with a bird with them in Generation I, and it was outside of its bird cage.
• Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum are the only games not to have exclusively male Bird Keepers; instead, they are all female. HeartGold and SoulSilver's Bird Keepers are once again male, however, and have similar clothing and similarly colored hair to Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum's female Bird Keepers, giving them the appearance of a male counterpart of the female design.

In other languages

• French: Ornithologue
• German: Vogelfänger
• Italian: Avicoltore (M), Avicoltrice (F)
• Korean: 새 조련사 (Sae Joryeonsa)
• Spanish: Ornitólogo (M), Ornitóloga (F)

This Trainer Class article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.