Genovesa Ground-Finch

Geospiza acutirostris

Birdstrong against fish, reptiles

Rare

Swoop

While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).

Geospiza acutirostris

Photo: © Seig (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Fish
Reptiles

Weak against

Mammals
Arachnids

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

The Genovesa ground finch (Geospiza acutirostris) is a small bird native to the Galápagos Islands. It was considered a subspecies of the sharp-beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis) endemic to Genovesa Island. The International Ornithologists' Union has split the species. Other taxonomic authorities still consider it conspecific.

In the whole-genome phylogeny of Lamichhaney et al. (2017), G. acutirostris is shown to be very far from G. difficilis. In fact, G. difficilis does not fall in the same part of the tree as other Geospiza.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Genovesa ground finch, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.

Observations: 166 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 12 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from130 points, the Rare budget

Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 35
ATK 39
DEF 56

How they’re shared out:

Type: Bird: HP 33, ATK 31 and DEF 36 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 166 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.
Size: 12 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.
Variation: A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.