Experience Tumblr Like Never Before
Seeing how alot of the fanon avians kinda have also become test tube babies (experiment aus/theories), I like to think they just don't have some instincts and features a normal avian would have
-and this gives Phil, the resident canon crow, really bad uncanny valley. At first he writes it off as the others being other types of birds.
But then he finds out the others can't chirp or don't know how to preen-- he gets really suspicious. Phil writes it off with the fact they forget memories from before the island, yet it still unsettles him.
Its like a wolf seeing a domesticated dog, like a weird mockery of yourself.