ukab-birds

Updated: May 6, 2025

The jackals knew, though, and the skulking hyenas, already sneaking in the nullahs; and so did the rion and the yellow ukab-birds carrion-fowl, both which already from the farthest blue, had begun to wheel and volplane toward the coast. Back on the beach, exultant, yet rather silent in the face of all that death, the Legion at once got itself into action under the vigorous command of the Master.

George Allan England - The Flying Legion