Category:  Eagle/Ostrich-family  (Cross-bread-development) 

Southern parts of Alaska, northern borders of USA.  Can now also be found in northern Sweden, Norway and some parts of Scotland.

Distinguishing Features: 

An Aguilant is about man-high in size, possibly a little taller. Instead of feathers it’s body and small left-over wing-bones are covered in fine soft but thick grey fur. It’s obvious from this description, that an Aguilant can’t fly. It has 2 long very strong and powerful salmon-coloured legs with sharp claws on his toes that it can retract.

The only feathers it has are at the side of it’s head, and a handful on it’s small stubby tail. It’s eagle like large beak is very sharp.

Nature:

In general the Aguilant isn’t really dangerous or agressive. It is quite possible to tame one if one knows how to do it, like knowing how they live and what they like. Their beak is mainly used for picking up food rather than attacking or pecking.

It’s eyes are very sharp and can see a long distance. It has the ability to slow-motion what it observers and therefore never fails to catch his prey when hunting.

It’s two powerfull  legs though, can be very dangerous, cause an Aguilant starts kicking when unhappy or not treated properly. What an Aguilant doesn’t like at all is shrill whistling. It also gets rather agrevated over common giggling-sounds. When thus set off, an Aguilant goes mad and starts kicking anything or anyone around it. Wizard-children need to take the greatest of care, not to get trodden on. Depending on where one gets kicked, it could be fatal.

A very popular feature of the Aguilant is his ability to learn words and short sentences, which it can copy in tone, sound and dialect of who-ever is coaching him.  

Aguilants pair up only for fertilizing the egg. The female lays the egg in it’s nest, which is usually made of grass and small soft branches, then it calls for a male. A successful calling will make a male Aguilant come to fertilize the egg. From then on, the female looks after it’s egg by herself.

Aguilant’s only lay one egg a year. The foetus in the egg will need about 5 months to grow before it hatches. The young Aguilant stays with it’s mother till fully grown.

Food:

The favorite food of the Aguilant is fish, Segvenifer (poisonous snail) and flubberworms. The way it kills them is by treading on it then picking it up with it’s beak. They can catch fish in shallow rivers or lakes by wading into the water and waiting silently until it’s sharp eyes see the movement under the water, which then it treads on very fast.

The Aguilant also nibbles on insects or Termitongs, when it crosses it’s way.

Special magical feature and use:

 Egg-shells: the egg-shells are used in powerful shield- and protective potions. The egg-yolk should be eaten raw and will help children with bad eye-sight to heal.

If an Aguilant-egg-yolk is being fried before eating, it can increase the normal distance a person can see things sharp and clear.