Avistan Island

Avistan Island is an island in the south of the Orange Archipelago. It is home to many bird-like Flying-type Pokémon and is considered "the land of Flying Pokémon." It is also a nature reserve, like Pinkan Island, and tourists are rarely allowed to visit it.

Background
Avistan Island has long been a refuge and a personal home for Flying-type Pokémon, especially bird Pokémon, although bat Pokémon and Bug-type Pokémon live here, too. Rumor has it the island was once sparsely inhabited, before Flying Pokémon flew to it and claimed it as their own. They rule the air, water, and land of Avistan much the same way other Pokémon, like the Legendaries and various other types, rule other parts of the Pokémon world, as well as humans rule the earth as a whole. Flying types from the Kanto region are the most common, since the Orange Archipelago is adjacent to it, but many birds and other Flying types migrated to the island and settled here, as well! from places like Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and even faraway Unova and Kalos. The remoteness of Avistan Island meant that Pokémon which could not fly were unable to get to it without the help of human ships or planes.

The bird Pokémon on this island are very brave and trusting of visitors, for the most part, but the drawback of this is that they have not learned how dangerous mammal-like and reptile-like Pokémon can be if they ever got here, because many years ago, humans came to this island with their non-Flying Pokémon and settled the land. This was in the days before people first started catching Pokémon for battle and friendship. Some of the humans hunted the bird Pokémon, and some Pokémon types, particularly Ground and Dark types, would give similar treatment to the Flying types and their eggs.

Eventually, when the Flying Pokémon began to become rare on the island, some modern humans began to take measures to protect the Flying Pokémon, especially the birds which dominated Avistan. A Nurse Joy and an Officer Jenny arranged with Professor Ivy to turn Avistan Island into a nature preserve and slowly, but gradually and surely, requested that the humans leave the Pokémon in peace and colonize others of the Orange Islands. Many colonists grumbled at this, not wanting to leave home, but they complied, and eventually the island was human-free, except for a couple handfuls of humans who ran the nature preserve. Since then, Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, in collaboration with Professor Ivy, have worked to protect the island by keeping most human visitors away, conserving and restoring the vulnerable Flying-type Pokémon, and gradually clearing most of the non-Flying type Pokémon off the island and moving them to other more appropriate homes. Professor Ivy even offered to keep some of them in her lab to give out to Pokémon Trainers in need of a new Pokémon or two.

Known Pokémon
* Pidgey

* Pidgeotto

* Pidgeot

* Spearow

* Fearow

* Farfetch'd

* Doduo

* Dodrio

* Zubat

* Golbat

* Caterpie

* Metapod

* Butterfree

* Weedle

* Kakuna

* Beedrill

* Ledyba

* Ledian

* Scyther

* Heracross

* Hoothoot

* Noctowl

* Natu

* Xatu

* Taillow

* Swellow

* Wurmple

* Cascoon

* Dustox

* Silcoon

* Beautifly

* Wingull

* Pelipper

* Pineco

* Forretress

* Swablu

* Altaria

* Skarmory

* Togepi

* Togetic

* Togekiss

* Starly

* Staravia

* Staraptor

* Pidove

* Tranquill

* Unfezant

* Ducklett

* Swanna

* Rufflet

* Braviary

* Vullaby

* Mandibuzz

* Fletchling

* Fletchinder

* Talonflame

Trivia
* The name "Avistan Island" is inspired by "Avista City," the futuristic city in the sky inhabited by Birdmen in the cartoon "ThunderCats (2011 series)."

* Avistan Island is loosely based on the real world island nation New Zealand, where birds once ruled the earth over all other animals, until humans came there with other mammals and they caused the extinction and/or endangerment of many of its native birds.