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PTO Verdict
“Buy it for the ollies and the switch, not for powder days or icy mornings - a resort freestyle twin in women's sizes.”
Best for: An intermediate-to-expert woman who carves rather than skids and rides for airtime - ollies, side hits, laps of the jump line. The floor here is technique, not fitness: it wants to be on edge. Switch riders get a genuine true twin, identical both ways, and lighter riders get pop that does not demand strength to load. It is the one women's deck for groomers plus park jumps plus everything they can air off in between, provided they accept it is a firm-and-mixed-snow tool. Women in W9.5-plus boots belong on a Wide - the same board, a separate style, the same price.
Not for: Beginners and genuine first-season riders: the Birds is catchier than average at slow speed and wants to be carved, and the friendly floral graphic is exactly how the wrong rider ends up on it. Powder-first women: zero taper, a true twin and a centered stance cannot float, and no Flat Kick claim changes that - a powder-first rider belongs on a directional board, which in CAPiTA's women's line means the Freeride category (The Navigator Wmn at $649.95, the Artemis at $679.95), and we route you there by category, not on a float promise. Butter-and-jib riders who want a soft, loose feel: the Flat Kick taxes every press, and CAPiTA's women's Freestyle direction - the reverse-camber Space Metal Fantasy at $449.95 - is the easier tool. Women who ride mostly hard, icy resort snow and want locked-in grip: the Birds has no Death Grip and no women's sibling that does. Riders chasing top-end speed: it is a light mid-flex twin, not a charger. Anyone who wants one board to do everything: this is a firm-to-mixed-snow freestyle twin, and pretending otherwise is how it disappoints. A rider who simply wants more forgiveness should have us check the cheaper women's Paradise at $529.95 first - price does not track flex in this line, so we verify before we route.
At a Glance
Terrain
Description
The CAPiTA Birds of a Feather is a women's resort freestyle true twin, and CAPiTA builds it as the women's counterpart to its D.O.A. Every named layer is shared with that board — the True Twin outline, the Resort V1 camber with Flat Kick, a carbon-woven HolySheet over a P2 Superlight core, and the same Quantum Drive base — while the sizing shrinks to narrower waists and a shorter run, with a women's flex pattern CAPiTA claims but leaves undetailed. The rated flex is Twin 5.5 on the brand's own scale, which means nothing outside its catalog. This is a resort deck for firm and mixed snow, not an all-conditions board, whatever the floral topsheet suggests.
The profile is where the ride comes from. Resort V1 hybrid camber carries past the bindings for drive, and the squared-off Flat Kick tips are the ollie engine — the same stiff platform that resists a long, drawn carve and asks for effort in a press. The carbon is woven into the glass rather than taped on top, which is how a board this light snaps as hard as it does. The Quantum Drive base is sintruded, not sintered: fast and durable, quick to reward a wax without punishing you for skipping one. The Blended Radial sidecut tightens from 8.0 m to 6.4 m on the shortest boards, and there is no Death Grip, so hard, icy snow is not its element.
The Birds rewards a confident resort rider who lives on her edges and treats every roller as a takeoff. It is the wrong board for a true beginner, for a powder-first rider — zero taper and a centered stance will not float — and for anyone chasing a soft butter-and-jib feel. Deep-snow riders belong in CAPiTA's women's Freeride category; a rider who wants more forgiveness can look first at the cheaper women's Paradise. The Birds ships as a bare deck; CAPiTA does not make bindings, so nothing pairs with it from the factory. Bring your boots — we size the length and waist to your foot and mount in the shop.
Specs
- Rider Type: Resort
- Shape: True Twin
- Profile: Resort V1 + Flat Kick Tech
- Sidecut: Blended Radial
- Flex: Twin 5.5
- Topsheet Tech: PLT Technology • Digital + Screen Print • Metallic Underlay
- Core: P2 SUPERLIGHT™
- Base: QUANTUM DRIVE™ • Digital Print
- Glass + Resin: HYBRID CARBON HOLYSHEET™ BI/BI MAGIC BEAN™ RESIN
- Available Lengths: 138 · 140 · 142 · 144 · 146 · 148 · 150 · 152 · 154 · 148W · 150W · 152W · 154W cm
- Waist Width: 22.3 cm (138) · 22.6 cm (140) · 22.9 cm (142) · 23.2 cm (144) · 23.5 cm (146) · 23.8 cm (148) · 24.1 cm (150) · 24.4 cm (152) · 24.7 cm (154) · 24.4 cm (148W) · 24.6 cm (150W) · 24.8 cm (152W) · 25.0 cm (154W)
- Effective Edge: 1084 mm (138) · 1103 mm (140) · 1118 mm (142) · 1136 mm (144) · 1151 mm (146) · 1170 mm (148) · 1186 mm (150) · 1202 mm (152) · 1218 mm (154) · 1176 mm (148W) · 1191 mm (150W) · 1207 mm (152W) · 1222 mm (154W)
- Nose / Tail Width: 26.7 / 26.7 cm (138) · 27.0 / 27.0 cm (140) · 27.3 / 27.3 cm (142) · 27.6 / 27.6 cm (144) · 27.9 / 27.9 cm (146) · 28.2 / 28.2 cm (148) · 28.5 / 28.5 cm (150) · 28.8 / 28.8 cm (152) · 29.2 / 29.2 cm (154) · 28.7 / 28.7 cm (148W) · 28.9 / 28.9 cm (150W) · 29.2 / 29.2 cm (152W) · 29.5 / 29.5 cm (154W)
- Sidecut Radius: 6.4 m (138) · 6.6 m (140) · 6.8 m (142) · 7.0 m (144) · 7.2 m (146) · 7.4 m (148) · 7.6 m (150) · 7.8 m (152) · 8.0 m (154) · 7.6 m (148W) · 7.7 m (150W) · 7.8 m (152W) · 7.9 m (154W)
- Reference Stance (cm / in): 45.7 / 18.0 (138) · 48.3 / 19.0 (140) · 48.3 / 19.0 (142) · 48.3 / 19.0 (144) · 50.8 / 20.0 (146) · 50.8 / 20.0 (148) · 53.3 / 21.0 (150) · 53.3 / 21.0 (152) · 53.3 / 21.0 (154) · 50.8 / 20.0 (148W) · 53.3 / 21.0 (150W) · 53.3 / 21.0 (152W) · 53.3 / 21.0 (154W)
- Suggested Rider Weight (lb / kg): 80-130 / 36-58 (138) · 85-135 / 38-61 (140) · 90-140 / 41-64 (142) · 95-145 / 43-66 (144) · 100-150 / 45-68 (146) · 105-155 / 47-70 (148) · 110-160 / 49-73 (150) · 115-165 / 52-75 (152) · 120-170 / 54-77 (154) · 110-160 / 49-73 (148W) · 115-165 / 52-75 (150W) · 120-175 / 54-80 (152W) · 125-180 / 56-81 (154W)
Details
- Type
- Snowboard
- Vendor
- CAPiTA
- SKU
- 21030501-MSC-138
- UPC / GTIN
- 810161591602
138
CAPiTA Birds of a Feather
By PTO Team, Read off CAPiTA's 26/27 catalog and order book, the brand's own tech pages, and independent reviews by women testers on the current board · Spec analysis
The take
“Buy it for the ollies and the switch, not for powder days or icy mornings - a resort freestyle twin in women's sizes.”
CAPiTA prints no terrain scores for any board - its radar chart is a shape with no numbers - so the six figures above are PTO's read against women's testing, not a CAPiTA rating. That testing keeps returning to one word: pop. Camber running past the inserts dead-ends in a stiff Flat Kick at each tip, so the Birds loads like a cambered deck and slings you off an ollie, and because it is a light board the pop is easy to reach. This is the women's D.O.A. - CAPiTA's own phrase, not marketing - and it earns that reputation on women's-length boards.
Sister is the honest word, not clone. Every named construction row matches the men's D.O.A., and CAPiTA changes the two things it names itself: a women's flex pattern it does not detail, and women's geometry it does. The geometry is real and measurable - waists narrow from 24.7 cm to 22.3 cm on the shortest board, and the sidecut radii quicken to 6.4 m where the men's board never drops below 7.6 m. The rated flex is unchanged at Twin 5.5, the same number the D.O.A. carries, so read the women's tuning as a distribution CAPiTA claims, not a softer board.
The bill for that pop is specific. Float is the weakest area, and the two women's reviews say so without hedging: zero taper, a centered stance and no real rocker sink the nose in deep snow unless you fight it with your back leg. Hard, icy snow is the other soft spot, because the Birds runs Blended Radial and not the Death Grip point CAPiTA keeps for its men's boards - and there is no women's board in the line that carries Death Grip, so the gap has no in-house fix. Presses cost effort too: the Flat Kick that buys the ollie is the platform you lean into to butter. CAPiTA's own 'ride anywhere' and 'planes on powder' lines do not survive the geometry, and PTO will not repeat them.
The Birds wants an intermediate-to-expert woman who carves; it is catchy at low speed and punishes a lazy, skidded turn, which is why the floral graphic and the friendly marketing around it are a trap for the wrong rider. At $599.95 it is priced with the men's D.O.A. and sits as the dearer of CAPiTA's two women's Resort boards; the cheaper Paradise at $529.95 is the obvious place to look for more forgiveness, though price does not track flex in this line, so we check before sending you there. Sizing runs 138 to 154 in even lengths - pick by weight, then clear your boot against the waist, because CAPiTA's women's chart tops the standard board out near a W10, so a W9.5 boot or larger wants the Wide.
Bindings we'd pair with it
Mount point: Centered, no setback - it rides identically regular or switch. Our pick: No official pairing - CAPiTA does not make bindings.
Sold as a deck only. CAPiTA builds no bindings, so there is no factory pairing to name. A medium binding suits its mid flex, and we size the waist and mount in the shop.
Common Questions
- Is the Birds of a Feather a beginner board?
- No. Both women's reviews put it above beginner level, and the reason is mechanical: it is catchy at slow speed and wants to be carved, not skidded. CAPiTA's cheaper women's Resort board, the Paradise, may be the more forgiving option and price does not track flex in this line, so we check before routing you there.
- Birds of a Feather or the D.O.A.?
- Same $599.95 construction, cut for women. The Birds gets narrower waists, a shorter run, tighter radii and a flex pattern CAPiTA says is women-tuned, on the same Twin 5.5 rating. Route a woman who wants this board to the Birds, not to the men's D.O.A. by default and not down to a softer board by default.
- Can the Birds handle powder?
- Not really. Zero taper, a true twin and a centered stance sink the nose in deep snow, and the two women's reviews say the same - it needs aggressive back-leg weighting to keep from nose-diving. It visits powder; it does not belong there. A powder-first rider should be on a directional board.
- Do I need the Wide?
- Your boot decides. CAPiTA's women's chart tops the standard board out near a W10, so a W9.5-or-larger boot wants the Wide. The Wide is a separate style at the same price, and because both the standard and Wide runs are all-even and share lengths, only the W - not the number - tells them apart.
- Is the 26/27 Birds the same board as last year?
- The construction is a carryover, so current-generation reviews still describe it. One caution about older coverage: grade any award or test by which shape it actually rode, and treat 26/27 as most likely a graphics year.