Birds of Prey#

One family of Wild Animals: 22 animals, levels 2 to 8. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Eagles, hawks, falcons and vultures. The trained ones are worth more than a horse.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Bald Eaglesmall · weakA dark brown eagle with a white head and tail that fishes Vhall Oasis and scavenges across the deserts of Dumasque and Moria. For all its looks, it steals more than it hunts. It perches on graveyard walls and screams at mourners.	2	9	10	1d6	1	DC 5	10
Jackal Buzzardsmall · weakA dark buzzard with a rust-red chest whose call sounds like a yelping jackal. It hunts the deserts of Dumasque and Moria and the graveyards at their edges, taking rats and snakes. Cheap to tame and loyal enough once fed.	2	11	4	1d4	1	DC 4	25
Red-Shouldered Hawksmall · weakA brown hawk with rusty shoulders and a barred tail that hunts frogs and snakes from low perches in woods and wetlands. It is loud, and it screams at intruders long before they reach the nest.	2	11	4	1d4	1-2	DC 4	15
Swamp Harriersmall · regularA long-winged hawk that quarters low over the reeds of the Mellowdeep Marsh and the mangroves of Menusia, the swamp harrier hunts frogs and ducklings by ear as much as by eye. It nests on the ground in the marsh. Fowlers hate it and falconers rather like it.	2	11	4	1d4	1-2	DC 4	15
Falconsmall · weakFalcons hunt the open country from the Crecian prairie to the crags of Jewall, stooping on pigeons faster than anything else alive. A trained falcon is a noble’s bird and priced like one. Taking one from the nest is easy; getting it to come back is the art.	3	12	3	1d4	1-2	DC 3	25
Peregrine Falcontiny · regularA slate-backed falcon that drops on other birds from a great height, faster than anything else alive. It nests on cliff ledges from the mountains of Jewall to the canyons of Dumasque. Hard to catch, and harder to hit.	3	12	17	1d4	1	DC 15	30
Chanting Goshawktiny · regularA pale gray hawk with red legs that sits on a high perch and pipes a long song at dawn, which is where the name comes from. It hunts lizards and small birds across scrub and grassland. Falconers like its patience.	3	13	16	1d4	1	DC 14	175
Bone Vulturesmall · weakA small white vulture with a yellow face that cracks eggs by throwing stones at them. It haunts the Sands of Bone and the graveyards, crypts and ossuaries of Dumasque and Moria, picking over whatever’s been left. Tomb robbers take one sitting calmly on a crypt door as a sign that nothing inside is stirring.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 5	40
Hooded Vulturesmall · weakA small brown vulture with a bare pink face that follows caravans through the Sands of Bone, waiting for something to die. It is a common sight on the dunes around Dumasque and an unlucky one to see circling your camp.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 4	40
Prairie Falcontiny · regularA sandy brown falcon of open country that hunts low and fast over the prairies of Crecia and Tharsis and the deserts of Dumasque and Moria. Falconers prize it, and it is very hard to bring down with an arrow. A trained one sells for a couple of dover.	3	14	18	1d4	3-6	DC 14	200
Red-Backed Kitetiny · regularA chestnut kite with a white head and chest that hunts along rivers and coasts and picks dead fish off the water. It is common from the marshes of Tharsis to the shores of Menusia and takes to training easily.	3	14	16	1d4	3-6	DC 14	150
Pariah Kitetiny · regularA scruffy brown kite with a forked tail that circles over camps and battlefields all over Sedia, looking for scraps. It will snatch meat from a cook’s hand. Nobody pays much for one, and nobody needs to.	3	16	16	1d4	2-3	DC 15	10
Darkwood Hawktiny · regularA blue-gray hawk with a long tail that chases other birds through thick woods, Darkwood above all, slipping between trunks at full speed. Tharsian nobles pay more for a trained one than for a good horse, which is why poachers climb for the nests.	3	18	16	1d4	3-6	DC 15	3,000
Ospreytiny · regularA brown and white fish hawk that hovers over rivers and coasts, then hits the water feet first and comes up with a fish. It returns to the same dead tree to nest year after year. A trained one brings its catch back to the boat, and fishermen pay well for that.	3	18	17	1d4	1-3	DC 14	780
Golden Eaglesmall · regularA dark brown eagle with a golden nape that hunts hares and young goats across the mountains of Jewall and the high country of New Saellem. It is rare and wary, and few falconers ever get one to the glove.	5	16	19	1d4	1	DC 17	50
Lammergeiersmall · regularA huge vulture with a rust-stained chest and a black beard that drops bones from a height to crack them, then eats the marrow. It nests on the cliffs of Jewall and the Kyrian Range. Dwarves call it the bone-breaker and leave it alone.	5	16	17	1d4	1-2	DC 16	800
Dumasque Vulturesmall · regularA big bald vulture with a pink face and a bill that cuts through hide. Flocks of them circle over the Sands of Bone and the Molten Flats, and the tribes of Dumasque read where they circle to find lost caravans. A tamed one is prized and priced to match.	6	18	16	1d4	3-6	DC 15	750
Harpy Eaglesmall · regularThe heaviest eagle on Sedia, with a double gray crest and talons as long as a bear’s claws. It plucks monkeys and sloths out of the canopy in Menusia and takes anything smaller elsewhere. A trained one sells for nearly ten dover, and its handler needs a thick glove and a calm hand.	6	18	15	1d6	1	DC 16	990
Griffin Vulturesmall · regularA big pale vulture with a ruff of white down at its neck and broad brown wings. It rides the hot air over the deserts of Dumasque and the volcanic ground of Moria for hours without a flap. It’s hard to tame, and falconers in Dumasque pay hundreds of vern for one that is.	6	19	18	1d4	3-6	DC 17	550
Swallow-Tailed Kitesmall · weakA black and white kite with a deeply forked tail that glides over the deserts of Dumasque and Moria and the prairies of Crecia, catching insects and lizards in the air. It almost never lands while anyone is watching.	6	19	4	1d4	1	DC 4	20
Lappet-Faced Vulturemedium · weakOne of the biggest vultures on Sedia, with a bare red head hung with folds of skin and a bill that tears hide other scavengers can’t. It lords it over graveyards and cemeteries, and the crows wait until it’s finished. Slow to anger, but heavy enough to knock a grown man down.	8	24	5	1d4	1-2	DC 6	40	·
Purple Eaglemedium · weakA large eagle whose dark feathers shine purple in the sun, hunting fish and marsh birds over the Mellowdeep Marsh and the forests around it. It will take a hare or a lamb but leaves people alone, unless they climb toward its nest.	8	24	4	1d4	1-2	DC 4	25