Urwin

Tweek · Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

Originally Posted By Rils

A new creature from Negilahn! This enormous flightless bird can occasionally be found stomping through the jungle outside the Museum Pod. Initial observations:

- Urwins are about 8 m tall.
- They have generally dark bodies with brightly colored heads.
- An Urwin's beak contains baleen, with which it feeds on swarms of insects

An un-official DRC translation of a D'ni museum guidebook also tells us that:

- Urwins mate for life
- The Urwin's preffered food is swarms of the "kiri", presumabley a type of small fly.

Post your pictures and observations!

(picture taken from www.martiniere.com)

Tweek · Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

Originally Posted By MoietyJean

My first sighting today! Here is a picture of the Urwin in mid-call:
http://fioca.com/jean/uru/070307-01-urwin-small.jpg

A second sighting almost immediately followed the first. I can't tell if there was a pair or if it was the same Urwin coming back around.
http://fioca.com/jean/uru/070307-03-urwin-small.jpg

I heard them coming, crashing through underbrush and making long, screechy calls, before I saw them.

Tweek · Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 205

Originally Posted By Rils

Look at the baleen in the mouth, nice shot MJ!

Are those paired feathers or antennae that come out from behind the eyes?

Professor Askew · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Hartford, CT

Considering the size of these creatures I'm surprised I haven't stumbled upon one. But, I haven't. /sigh

I'm hoping that if I start hanging around the society maybe some of those good zoological vibes will rub off. Having an expertise in temporal physics does me know good when it comes to this kind of study.

I have always had a strong love for animals and I anxiously await my first glimpse.
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Abathyr · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 46

I hear urwin all around my pod during the "day" hours. The sound is like a sheep's bleat, almost two-toned, hightolow. Can anybody confirm that I'm hearing the right thing? The only reason I saw one of these guys at all was I heard it really loud and happened to look around. I've been trying to mark when their calls are most frequent. It seems like the "noon" time is the busiest.
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Luin · Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 73 Location: Ae'gura

I can't recall the actual sound enough to write it out, but I did have an Urwin sighting yesterday at about 18:20 KI time (Negilahn time conversion is still beyond me). I had "Button 3" pressed, which for me is the third to the left when facing the controls. It always sounded like a bird call to me, other than that - I got no science to give you. Oh, and I saw it out of the second floor window. Managed a shot before it headed back into the jungle, too!

The Zoologist · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

I'm sure that you all will laugh upon reading this, but I still have yet to see one Urwin (or anything else for that matter) in Negilahn. Is this just bad luck on my part, or have Urwin sightings diminished as a whole? I know all about the Bahro killings, but I thought Urwins were still being sighted?

(Personally, I think they just hate me because I ventured to name them
Chickenavis Invisibilitus. Appropriate, no? Apparently the birds
disagreed.)

Oh, and another thing concerning Urwins: These things reputedly travel in pairs, right? Has anyone seen two at once?

(Edit) Another month later - No Urwin.
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