| Skull Island Hawk | |
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Name: |
Skull Island Hawk |
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Abilities and Weapons: |
claws, senses, speed |
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Occupation: |
Pursuit mesopredator |
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Home: |
Skull Island |
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First Appearance: |
"The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (2005) |
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Diet: |
Carnivore |
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Status: |
Became locally extinct when Skull Island sunk into the ocean, but could have survived offland. |
Skull Island Hawk is a species of bird that is found on Skull Island. The animal is described in the book "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (2005).
Facts[]
The agile Skull Island Hawk is a handsome, bluish bird with a featherless head that can adeptly pluck an Aerosaurus out of the air midflight.
It is the island's largest and only known bird of prey and was well adapted to the jungle canopy. Unlike most bird of prey, the Skull Island Hawk is bald on the head, suggesting that it gauges itself directly in the innards of its prey, like the makeup of Vultures.
Trivia[]
- The hawk would have most likely filled a niche of a squat, nimble aerial predator as its smaller size allowed it to squeeze through the dense forests, areas where the flying rodents of Skull Island are either too big or too sluggish to traverse into.
- While vultures are the most common comparison of a bird of prey with a bald head. Another bird, the extinct Haast's Eagle of New Zealand was also believed to have a bald head due to the way it gauges itself deep within the bellies of the extinct Moas it hunted.
- It, alongside the majority of flying birds would have likely survived the sinking of Skull Island without the help of humans.