Quote:Few birds could sit more meekly than the Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier, a carnivore permanently on the lookout for the vegetarian option. It spent most of its time asleep in any case, but when forced to find food it tended to sit on a branch out of the wind somewhere and wait for something to die. When in the mews the worriers would initially perch like other birds and then, talons clamped around the pole, doze off peacefully upside down. Hodgesaargh bred them because they were found only in Lancre and he liked the plumage, but all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

It is the hereditary right of the Queens of Lancre to fly a Wowhawk - or at least have one hang limply from their gauntlet in official portraiture.

(October 12, 2026 at 3:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

Quote:Few birds could sit more meekly than the Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier, a carnivore permanently on the lookout for the vegetarian option. It spent most of its time asleep in any case, but when forced to find food it tended to sit on a branch out of the wind somewhere and wait for something to die. When in the mews the worriers would initially perch like other birds and then, talons clamped around the pole, doze off peacefully upside down. Hodgesaargh bred them because they were found only in Lancre and he liked the plumage, but all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

It is the hereditary right of the Queens of Lancre to fly a Wowhawk - or at least have one hang limply from their gauntlet in official portraiture.

Boru

(October 12, 2026 at 6:18 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: This is a complicated case, one I’m deadass not sure is a fiction, a cryptid, an extinct species, or what. But it’s one that’s stayed with me for a long time.

Quote:The validity of this species has been questioned since 1870,[3] and the consensus among modern ornithologists is that it was fabricated.[4]

(October 12, 2026 at 6:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(October 12, 2026 at 6:18 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: This is a complicated case, one I’m deadass not sure is a fiction, a cryptid, an extinct species, or what. But it’s one that’s stayed with me for a long time.

From the Wikipedia article:

Quote:The validity of this species has been questioned since 1870,[3] and the consensus among modern ornithologists is that it was fabricated.[4]

Boru

(October 12, 2026 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

Boru