Thread:IndigoPengi/@comment-4220590-20180605190849/@comment-4166811-20180605195130

They're never called Flickies in the game, or any of the Japanese guide books, or Gamma's profile on Sonic Channel. (Or even in Sonic X, which does name-drop Flicky in reference to the original version.)

Their design doesn't match up with the original Flicky or any of the Sonic 3D Flickies either.

Calling Sonic Adventure's bird trio "Flickies" was always just a fan assumption thing. But Sonic Adventure's penguin isn't a Pecky, the seal isn't a Rocky, the rabbit isn't a Pocky. There's nothing to suggest that the birds should be thought of any differently.