Random Bird Chart

I like random tables. A lot. And while I am not alone in that, this guy kind of takes the cake.

Just for the heck of it, I ran the numbers to get the probability for any specific bird to be encountered.

50.00%	50.00%	Nothing
10.00%		Solitary Birds
	0.83%	Vale magpie
	0.83%	Black-eared Wheatear
	0.83%	Atvian magpie
	0.83%	Stonethrush
	0.83%	Ring Ouzel
	0.83%	Atvian Jay
	0.83%	Atvian Oriole
	0.83%	Spotted Nutcracker
	0.83%	Spotted Jay
	0.83%	Red-black Shrike
	0.83%	Isabell's Shrike
	0.83%	Stone Chough
10.00%		Small Songbirds
	1.25%	Atvian Wren
	1.25%	Cathadrian Lark
	1.25%	Citril Finch
	1.25%	West Wall Accentor
	1.25%	Shoe-toed Lark
	1.25%	Common Starling
	1.25%	Elvish Nuthatch
	1.25%	Atvian Reed-Warbler
10.00%		Raptors
	1.67%	Short-toed Snake Eagle
	1.67%	Bearded Vulture
	1.67%	Griffon Vulture
	1.67%	Tawny Owl
	1.67%	Atvian Sparrowhawk
	1.67%	Elvish Owl
10.00%		Gamebirds
	2.50%	Black-bellied Sandgrouse
	2.50%	Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
	2.50%	Chukar Partridge
	2.50%	Hazel Grouse
10.00%		Strange Birds
	2.50%	Atvian Curlew
	2.50%	Water Pipit
	2.50%	Wallcreeper
	2.50%	Cuckoo
100.00%	100.00%	Total

I suspect the odds aren't intended to represent actual frequency in the wild, e.g. encountering an Elvish Owl is twice as likely as encountering either a Jay. or a Nutcracker and the four most likely birds are in fact the "Strange Birds" - which would make them rather common rather than strange. I expect the author wanted to make a ratio of more interesting birds available for the PC who was looking for an animal friend.

A list like this would have been really useful in my old Runequest campaigns. Both for hunters and for Rune-level characters who were looking for birds for familiars. If I were to use this list, I'd add in crows and ravens -scavengers that flock are the most notable (to me) gap in the tables. I don't know that I'll find a use for these in my Honor+Intrigue game, but in any event, I admire the effort and I'll definitely save these tables to my Runequest folder.