The bandit bird, a walking treasure, mostly

[thivid08]

The magpheasant or bandit bird is like a pheasant with magpie colors. It starts out with a somewhat thin body, it tries to avoid nichelings, it moves every time a nicheling moves and it can move up to 2 tiles at a time, preferring to stay at least one tile away from a nicheling. Its about the size of a dodomingo and it can eat almost anything smaller than itself, it oneshots bunnies and crabbits, it can catch any fish, and crack any nut or eat any berry, and its constantly trying to travel to the next food source, so it steals a lot, it lives for 80 days and only gives one food if killed, sometimes, however, the more it eats, the fatter it gets, and it can have in its body up to 60 food! A far bandit bird means you can get huge amounts of food, so you need to spy it closely if you want big loot. A few days after it reaches maximum capacity, it will try to find a nest to lay an egg, wich gives 10 food if cracked, but it will hatch in 3 days, after that, it will stay 4 days as a baby, and each day, its mother will feed it one quarter of the food she has stored, eventually emptying herself, so you can leave her if you want a second bandit bird. Aside from attacking her, you can feed her 5 food, but this is only useful for getting to max capacity so she can lay an egg, or if you want to use her store food in case of emergency. Also, you can startle her, causing her to vomit a small amount of the food she has stored, so you can do this if you dont want to kill her and still get food from her, that way, she can keep getting food you can then gather from her.

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

do you think the bandit bird would be easy pickings for some other birds, like the bluebird, does it have any other predators and will it fare well going up against a pythadillo lizard?

[thivid08]

3 hours ago, Fishyfishyfishy500 said:

do you think the bandit bird would be easy pickings for some other birds, like the bluebird, does it have any other predators and will it fare well going up against a pythadillo lizard?

Well, its quite fast,heavy and persistent, so bluebirds dont attack it. Bearyenas dont bother hunting it because its so fast, but arctic ramfoxes seem to be the only creatures that bother hunting it, and also apes seem to like being around them for some reason. I read about the pythadillo(really cool by the way) and I think the bandit bird would prey on it, because it hunts prey by swallowing them whole, its spikes could keep it at bay, but the bird is resistant to toxins and all it needs is to swallow the lizard, but I think the bird would still not like hunting pythadillo.

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

thanks  how large is it? nicheling sized? also yes probably the pythadillo could be killed by it and devoured, also the pythadillo will defend itself if the bandit bird approaches by curling into its defensive ball(like a coiling ball python)

[thivid08]

Its size can range from a bit larger than a dodomingo from nicheling size. Also it would probably choke if it tried to swallow a curled up pythadillo, so thats a great defense!

[MysticTopaz]

I want it. We can farm it. Like how ants farm 'ant cows' for honeydew.

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

9 hours ago, thivid08 said:

Its size can range from a bit larger than a dodomingo from nicheling size. Also it would probably choke if it tried to swallow a curled up pythadillo, so thats a great defense!

great observation! also thanks and maybe the Bandit bird would also eat the fly swarms since it is a bird and maybe it has preferences? for example it eats berries over bunnils 

[thivid08]

Well, it will always prefer the biggest food, like a walrus deer carcass or A berry bush forest, It would probably like insects and honey too.

[Fishyfishyfishy500]

ok