Birdo, known in Japan as Catherine (?????, Kyasarin^?), is a fictional, anthropomorphic dinosaur-like creature featured in Nintendo's Mario series of video games. Nintendo has never made the exact nature of Birdo clear, appearing as both a particular character and a species of character, just as Yoshi from Super Mario World can refer either to a class of video game dinosaurs or a particular one. Birdo first appeared in the Japanese game Yume K?j?: Doki Doki Panic as a minor boss appearing at the end of many of the levels. Yume K?j?: Doki Doki Panic was later remade into Super Mario Bros. 2 for worldwide release, later known as Super Mario USA in Japan. Mario Party 7 ) is the ninth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. ... This article is a chronological list of Mario games. ... Shigeru Miyamoto , born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer. ... For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). ... 7th millennium BC anthropomorphized rocks, with slits for eyes, found in modern-day Israel. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... For the video game system, see Nintendo Entertainment System. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... Namcos Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games ever made. ... This article is about the Nintendo character Yoshi. ... Super Mario World , commonly abbreviated SMW) is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo Co. ... Flag Ship from the video game Gorf In video games, a boss (sometimes called a guardian) is a particularly large or difficult computer-controlled character that must be defeated at the end of a segment of a game, whether it be for a level, an episode, or the very end... This article is about the version released outside of Japan. ...

Appearance

Birdo is most frequently depicted as pink, although red, green, blue, yellow, orange, and gray Birdos are also seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 and other games; gray Birdos were changed to green in the remakes due to their attack patterns matching. In Super Mario Bros. 2, Birdo would spit out eggs and/or fireballs from her tubular snout. This article is about the version released outside of Japan. ... In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ... Look up fireball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

After defeating Birdo by grabbing her eggs while riding them and throwing them at her three times, Birdo would drop a crystal ball that would allow the player to open up a gate called "Hawkmouth", which led to the next level. Although it would appear that the crystal ball drops out of Birdo's stomach, promotional art for Super Mario Bros 2 and Yume K?j?: Doki Doki Panic show that Birdo i This article is about the fortune telling object; for other uses, see Crystal ball (disambiguation). ... In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ...