Boogeymen: The Thunderbird

[Ninurta]

The beak appeared to be built heavy like a crow's beak, but was shorter in proportion to it's height, and had a slight hook at the business end rather than a point as a crow has, more in keeping with a hawk or vulture. I couldn't discern the legs, so I presume they were folded back along the body and black, blending in to the plumage.

I have both crows and ravens right around my house here. They keep the dead tidied up, and serve as an early warning system for me, so I'm happy to have them! Did you know they actually have a language, and have a different call for a "man" or a "bear", and even different vocalizations for "a man" and " a man with a gun"? They know the difference, and output the appropriate warning to their fellows. They can also be taught to speak English, like a parrot.

As an aside, and in reference to the possible leg color, mutations sometimes happen. When I was a teenager, we raised game chickens ("fightin' roosters"), and we had one hatch out with blue legs and 5 toes per foot - 3 forward, two rearward. It turned out to be a rooster, and within a couple years time, we had a whole barnyard full of blue-legged, five-toed chickens!

Thank you for that. I'm sorry to break the run of this thread, please keep going because I'm eating this up with a spoon!

"...They keep the dead tidied up..." -in regards of your ravens and crows, I'll assume this is in connection with trespassing
Ramblers? Don't answer that!

I edited my quote in your post here and my original post as well, because my math wasn't adding up regarding the chicken toes. That sort of thing may be why I went into carrying a gun for a living instead of physics...

"Tidying up the dead" as in "roadkill"... and stuff like that or similar to it... Just dead critters or what the cat drags in...

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