What is "leatherwing"

Usage examples of "leatherwing".

Through the silence that followed, the nearby screech of a leatherwing and the distant roar of a deimosauroid sounded as insolently loud as the wild blossoms were gaudy.

The leatherwings, he thought as a red haze rose around him, had never like being caged.

The leatherwings would have sensed what was going to happen to them, and perhaps they would have been able to comminicate their foreknowledge to the billion other dumb furry creatures who must have died in the forest.

The leatherwings were no strangers to killing, but they took only their exact portion from the ecological banqueting table, as he had discovered when he had tried to train them to kill small game.

Predators which could home in on the mindglow of their prey were not unknown in the Federation’s variegated domains, but Tavernor suspected the leatherwings of having the facility in an unusually high degree.

He opened the cages one by one and put the leatherwings into their tailored niches, stroking and kissing the warm hard bodies and domed heads, whispering reassurance.

He knelt behind the first bow and gathered his thoughts, shaping and clarifying the mental image just as he had done when throwing the leatherwings at targets.

But between sword and arrows the leatherwings were forced to retreat, whirling upward in a shrieking swarm of gray-green rage.

With Mewick's arrows flying at them and the sword-blade singing past their heads, the leatherwings had to sheer away.

The latest of the leatherwings had got himself home safe in the darkness just ahead of her.

The leatherwings came home unmolested, to slowly blacken the rooftops of the Castle with their clusters.

The notch of the pass behind him was too distant for him to see the leatherwings rising above the Castle, but he knew they would be there.

They might be reptile nests, but why so high above the citadel, already at an altitude where the leatherwings had hard work to fly?

He had begun to alter his true course, a little west of north, as soon as he thought the leatherwings had spotted them, and now he took it up again.

The leatherwings were beginning to concentrate above the little Western force.