Bird Pets

The keepers say that a bird stays with its master by its own choice, and that a bird which is displeased has the whole sky to be displeased in. They are small creatures, the most of them, and a blow that a dog would shake off will end a mockingbird. But the blow must first find it; for a bird fights from above, and is seldom where it was.

The owl is held to be the wisest. It sees what is hidden from other eyes, and in Newbie Town there is a keeper of owls named Hoot who will praise them to anyone that stands still. He says less about what his owls did to the rats.

Details

• Commonest to rarest, with their young: Mockingbird (fledgling mockingbird), Pigeon (squab), Raven (fledgling raven), Eagle (eaglet), Hawk (hatchling hawk), Owl (owlet).
• Their eggs are spotted and white. They are found in treasure, and the rarer birds are seldom seen in the treasure of low levels.
• Every bird flies from the day it hatches and needs no frisbee. The owl is also born seeing the invisible.
• About half the tricks a bird can be taught are magical ones.