Keen Sight. The Butcherbird has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Mimic. The Butcherbird can mimic the voices and sounds it has heard, and can associate words with meaning, but it has no true understanding of language.
Smart Bird. Butcherbirds are intelligent creatures and remember faces and deeds for years and are known to keep grudges and avoid traps and can solve problems using their minds and beaks and talons. And have been known to coordinate attacks and ambushes.
Bird of Prey. Butcherbirds can life and carry medium size creatures, and can knock large creatures off their feet.
Multiattack. The eagle makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its talons.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.
Talons. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage.
Description
A Butcherbird is a dangerous creature that speaks its own language and understands speech in the Common tongue. A male Butcherbird is larger than the females and is black with a bright red colored crest and has a territory and a harem of females. His call is a series mimics of terrified prey animals fashioned into a song. Female Butcherbirds are more drab, being gray brown and white, and smaller than males and typically lay up to four eggs or young in their nest (treat the young as normal ravens).
Butcherbirds get their name from their method of storing food. They will strip a tree of leaves and small branches, and use the broken limbs on the tree to impale their prey, be it small animals like rabbits to deer size animals. Even humanoids are on the menu.
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