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| Grub Borer The grub borer feeds on insects on the rainforest floor, found on the island of Schendi. *In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorious whistling finch and some unflighted, like the grub borer and lang gim. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Gull (coasting) This bird is an inhabitant of Tovaldsland. It is similar to the Vosk gull, having black tips on it's broad wings and tail. *Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the back-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on it's wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull. ~Book 9, page 235~ Gull (Schendi) The Schendi gull is native to Schendi on the Thassa where they nest on land at night. *'Those are Schendi gulls,' said Ulafi, pointing to the birds which circled the mainmast. 'They nest on land at night.' ~Book 13, page 99~ Gull (vosk) A gull, native to the Vosk Delta and Vosk River, who's feathers are used on arrows It migrates from the south to the north in spring. *We then waited about a minute, and I saw several birds, river gulls, flying north. 'Those are Vosk gulls' said Kamchak, 'In the spring, when the ice breaks in the Vosk, they fly north.' ~Book 4, page 137~ Herlit A large, carnivorous bird of the Barrens, with yellow feathers tipped with black. *It was peeled kalana wood and, from it's top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it-strikes, presumably from it's habit of mangeing it's descent and strike on prey, like the tarn, with the sun above and behind it. ~Savages of Gor, page 143~ Hermit (yellow-breasted) A yellow-breasted insect-eating bird of the Northern forest. *Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid, staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the Tur tree, hunting for larvae. ~Hunters of Gor, page 106~ Hook-Billed Gort A carnivorous hunting bird of the rainforests of Schendi, it preys on ground urts. *In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed Gort, which preys largely on rodents such as ground urts, and the insecivorous whistling finch.. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Jard A flock of jard, a small scavenging bird found in Lydius, can strip the flesh completely from a tabuk in minutes. *'Most of the animals we leave for the larls and sleen, and the jards. The jard is a small scavenger. It flies in large flocks. A flock, like flies, can strip the meat from a tabuk in minutes. 'Even the jards die, gorged with meat,' said the man near us on the platform. ~Beasts of Gor, page 149~ |
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