How Raise Birds Works in Gardening Duties in Gardenscapes

Many Gardenscapes players get confused by the Raise Birds objective inside Gardening Duties because the game does not clearly explain what actually counts as progress.

The key detail is that Raise Birds appears when Gardening Duties is running alongside Fancy Feathers, using bird progress from that event as one of its tasks. The way these birds progress through multiple checkpoints is closely connected to the overall mechanic explained in Gardenscapes Fancy Feathers Event: How the Mechanic Actually Works.

How Gardening Duties Works

Gardening Duties is divided into 5 stages, and each stage includes 5 objectives that must be completed to claim the rewards.

One of those objectives can be Raise Birds, but each new stage asks for more raises.

• Stage 1 → Raise Birds 1 time
• Stage 2 → Raise Birds 2 times
• Stage 3 → Raise Birds 3 times
• Stage 4 → Raise Birds 4 times
• Stage 5 → Raise Birds 5 times

This means that as Gardening Duties progresses, the game asks for more Fancy Feathers progress instead of treating the task as a simple one-time objective.

What Raise Birds Actually Means

Raise Birds seems to count bird evolutions or progress checkpoints, not only fully completed birds.

Each bird appears to move through 3 main reward checkpoints:

• Rainbow Blast
• Shovel
• The final chest for that bird

Each checkpoint seems to count as 1 raise.

So when Stage 3 asks you to Raise Birds 3 times, it does not necessarily mean that you must finish three separate birds. You need 3 total raises from any combination of birds.

A Simple Example

If you fully complete one bird, that can count as 3 raises because the bird passes through all 3 checkpoints.

If you then raise a second bird up to the Shovel checkpoint, that gives 2 more raises.

• 1 fully completed bird = 3 raises
• 1 second bird raised up to Shovel = 2 raises
• 3 + 2 = 5 total raises

It can also work in another way.

• 2 birds raised up to the Shovel checkpoint = 4 raises
• 1 third bird raised up to Rainbow Blast = 1 raise
• 4 + 1 = 5 total raises

In simple terms, the game seems to count the combined progress of all birds, not just the number of birds you completely finish. This is one reason why some players feel that progression becomes unexpectedly slow during later stages, especially in the same way described in Why You Keep Progressing Slowly in Fancy Feathers (Even If You Play a Lot).

Why Players Get Confused

The phrase “Raise Birds X times” sounds as if the game is asking for completed birds. That is why many players become confused when they reach the later Gardening Duties stages.

In practice, the objective appears to be based on checkpoints or evolutions inside Fancy Feathers, rather than only final bird completions.

Why Some Players Do Not See Raise Birds

Raise Birds appears when Gardening Duties is connected with an active Fancy Feathers event. If a player does not currently have Fancy Feathers, they may see different objectives instead.

This is another example of how Gardenscapes can combine events and mechanics differently across accounts, similar to the segmented event behavior explored in Why Gardenscapes Events Are Not the Same for Every Player.

Final Takeaway

Raise Birds in Gardening Duties does not always mean that you must complete several different birds from start to finish.

What the game seems to count is the total number of bird progress checkpoints reached inside Fancy Feathers.