They're often early risers

Usage examples of birdmen.

Before the Wars of the Axe that severed our races many Icarii birdmen chose to get their sons on human women.

Male Enchantersindeed, Icarii birdmen generallyfound it difficult to father children.

Icarii birdmen simply took the babies of human-Icarii unions and never spared a thought for the women who had struggled to birth their children.

And, in the longer and more frequent rest breaks, men continued to talkalthough all were wary of talking about the birdmen before unit commanders.

Their design was based on the shapes of the carved Icarii birdmen encircling the Star Gate, except these in the Assembly Chamber were five times as tall, far more spectacularly constructed and consisted of alternating male and female figures.

In the Chamber of the Star Gate most of the birdmen statues had their arms folded and heads bowed, eyes closed.

Reluctantly, the soldiers lowered their bows and watched the two birdmen rise off the roof and wing away towards the Icescarp Alps.

He had been walking for some ten minutes, the black rock of the cliffs now only fifty or so paces away, when the five Icarii birdmen who had been watching his approach landed softly in the snow in front of him.

In ages past Icarii birdmen simply took the babies of human-Icarii unions and never spared a thought for the women they had bedded who had struggled to birth their children.