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A flying predator with a mouth that swallows whole flocks of birds, the skyland bolter, skyland bolters hunt birds like whales hunt plankton.

The sky islands of the late hothouse provide nesting sites for vast flocks of mowerbirds, canary-sized sparrowgulls that graze on grassland vegetation. Singly, a mowerbird's food requirements are miniscule. But in flocks that rise into the billions, they can eat as much, pound per pound, as herds of millions of thorngrazers. That is a lot of meat, if you can take advantage of it - and mowerbirds remain the prey of choice for a variety of hunters. In the ten million years since the mowerbirds first exploded in number, their enemies have increased in size to match, becoming even more adept predators of these superabundant songbirds.

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Description

A flying predator with a mouth that swallows whole flocks of birds, the skyland bolter, skyland bolters hunt birds like whales hunt plankton.

The sky islands of the late hothouse provide nesting sites for vast flocks of mowerbirds, canary-sized sparrowgulls that graze on grassland vegetation. Singly, a mowerbird's food requirements are miniscule. But in flocks that rise into the billions, they can eat as much, pound per pound, as herds of millions of thorngrazers. That is a lot of meat, if you can take advantage of it - and mowerbirds remain the prey of choice for a variety of hunters. In the ten million years since the mowerbirds first exploded in number, their enemies have increased in size to match, becoming even more adept predators of these superabundant songbirds.

Full entry: sites.google.com/site/worldofs…
Serina on Patreon (lots to see there): www.patreon.com/sheatherius