Echo-hawks

The echo hawk (S. "soraew lomin") is a large subterranean bird and a menace that few would expect to meet underground in a cave. It is a raptor that has totally adapted to life in a lightless environment, utilizing both infravision and echo-location for its hunting. The echo hawk's nostrils are unusually large, giving it, like the chamber bird, a keenness of scent quite rare in a bird. Its beak and talons are unusually large, hard, and sharp, so much so that the echo hawk can pierce through most types of armor. As is usual with the raptors, the female hawk is larger than the male. Otherwise, the sexes are similar, with dull white feathers, colorless skin, and beaks and talons like translucent horn.