Pikipek
The Woodpecker Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 731
Entry: A small, woodpecker-like pokémon native to the tropical forests of Alola. It’s best known for using its sharp, hardened beak to drill holes into tree trunks at an incredible rate of sixteen pecks per second. Once drilled, pikipek use these holes to store a variety of things, including berries that it will later feed on or shiny objects that have caught its attention. It also sometimes stores its eggs in these holes after mating but will often leave its nest if an egg falls out of it, a habit rarely displayed by any other bird pokémon. Because it’s such a rare habit, studies have gone into why pikipek will leave a nest and all its contents, including any other egg in it, if an egg falls out, especially given the effort pikipek expends to make such a nest in the first place, but the results are still largely inconclusive. Leading theories include “pikipek literally cannot adjust their nests once a clutch is laid honestly it’s that simple” and “pikipek just really hate themselves and trees and quite possibly also gravity.”

Trumbeak
The Bugle Beak Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 732
Entry: The evolved form of pikipek, by battle experience. This woodpecker pokémon is known for its ability to create a wide variety of calls by modulating its voice and bending its highly flexible beak. While there have been many studies into these calls (particularly in which different calls are recorded, interpreted, and indexed into a trumbeak lexicon), of particular interest to researchers and children alike is the “noot noot” call, which consists of a trumbeak rounding its beak and emitting two short, loud cries. Because of the amusing nature of these calls, a number of trumbeak cartoon characters have emerged since this pokémon’s discovery, all of which communicate primarily with this single call. However, it was only recently discovered that the “noot noot” call is actually a warning cry, as shortly after emitting this call, a trumbeak will often shoot a volley of berry seeds from its rounded beak at any invading human who has haplessly wandered into its line of sight.

Toucannon
The Cannon Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 733
Entry: The evolved form of trumbeak, by battle experience. Contrary to Unovan pop culture and marketing, toucannon does not “follow its nose” to “delicious fruit flavor.” First of all, that nose is actually a beak. Second, it does not so much follow it as heat it up to over 200 degrees Fahrenheit and proceed to smash it into boulders, stubborn fruit, and humans who believe following toucannon will lead them to delicious tropical fruit caches.