A Desert Órbao
The desert Órbao was the principal native eagle of Far Harad. It was quite similar to the eagles of the North, except that the environment had forced him to play the role of scavenger as well as hunter. These soaring hunters swooped to attack smaller birds or preyed on the ground. Unlike the northern birds, the desert eagle would as readily eat carrion as fresh meat. This was an adaptation made necessary by the environment. They were aggressive enough to strike travellers along Harad's southern caravan roads.
Aside from Men, the orao were the dominant hunters on the vast plains of southwestern Harad. Their eyries were set in the caverns of the northern Tûr Betark, and in wind-hollowed caves the highest of the hills east of the hilly Rây region to the north. In size, they were no match for the Great Eagles, but they were large enough to carry off a shepherd's goat or lamb.
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Original form in MERP:Orao
Based on serbo-croatian Orao,"Eagle".
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- Retrieved from [Realms of Arda]; original reference: [ICE MERP 2012]