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|comparable=[[Crow]]<br>[[Hawks]]<br>[[Kaibādo]]

'''Kuro''', originally referred to as '''Birds'''<ref name=Atari8>Instruction manual for Atari 8-bit port</ref>, are flying corvid [[Nitpicker]]s that make their debut in the ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' arcade game. In most versions, they sport thick beaks and flap their wings in a brisk pace while flying.

 

Kuro, referred to as '''Nitpickers'''<ref>Instruction manuals for Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellivision, and Coleco Adam ports</ref><ref>Instruction manual for Atari 7800 port</ref> or '''Birds'''<ref name=Atari8/>, make their first appearance in the [[Chain Scene]] of ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' Like the Nitpickers in the [[Jump Board Scene]], these Birds similarly fly horizontally across the screen, descending progressively as they meet its margins. They flee off-screen after performing four such flights. Unlike those Nitpickers, they do not bombard [[Donkey Kong Jr.]] with [[egg]]s, and are designed to look more like ravens in most versions, given their dark coloration and chubby structure. They can be defeated the same way nonetheless, as falling [[fruit]] can put an end to them.

A lone Kuro, known as a nitpicker, appears in the +-×÷ Exercise mode of ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. Math]]''. It hovers over the chains, showing which position Donkey Kong Jr. should fill. It will also show where Junior made his mistakes.

A single Kuro nest can be seen in the Game Boy ''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]'', in [[Stage 9-4]] of the [[Tower (world)|Tower]], a boss stage that resembles the Chain Scene from ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' It spawns two Kuro birds on-screen at a time. After rising slowly from their nest, Kuro fly horizontally across the room, moving down a short distance and turning back upon meeting the room's limits. They perform three complete flights, and flee outside the map of the stage afterwards. Kuro can not be practically defeated, as the stage they appear in presents no means of combat against them. They now attempt to drop eggs on [[Mario]] if they fly above him. Unless they are avoided, or deflected with a [[handstand]], these eggs can plummet down on the character and cause him to lose a life.

Kuro are identical in behavior to [[Hawks]] and [[Kaibādo]], which are other successors of [[Nitpicker]]s.

===Family BASIC===

===''WarioWare Gold''===

In ''[[WarioWare Gold]]'', two Birds have to be avoided by Donkey Kong Jr. as he climbs two ropes in the third difficulty of the [[Donkey Kong Jr. (microgame)|Donkey Kong Jr.]] microgame. They fly on a straight line from left to right, across the ropes.

DKGB Crow.png|Sprite of a Kuro

Kuro KC.png|A Kuro, as illustrated in volume 30 of the [[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|KC Deluxe]] manga

|Jap=ニットピッカー<ref name=BASIC>Family BASIC handbook.</ref><br>''Nittopikkā''<br>トリさん<ref name=BASIC/><br>''Tori-san''<br>クロ<ref>''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten''. [https://imgur.com/a/UvABP#37 Page 75.]</ref><ref>Kazuki, Motoyama. Volume 30 of the [[KC Deluxe]] manga, [[Media:Donkey Kong GB characters KC.jpg|page 51]]</ref><br>''Kuro''

|JapM=Nitpicker<br><br>Bird{{wp|Japanese honorifics#San|-san}}<br><br>From「黒」(''kuro'', black), after their Game Boy coloration; also a play on the English word "crow"

|ItaM=Bird of Prey

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