Boughbreaks

Boughbreaks are rich buttery brown birds with red flecks around their yellow beaks.   They spend most of the year in the northern reaches of Coracle and fly down to Esle and Cathay during the warmer months.  They like to eat seeds and insects, but in the summer time enjoy eating berries.  When they are finished with the berry, they drop the seed.  They have an annoying habit of flying overhead and spitting out the seeds on passersby.  If there are a group of Boughbreaks eating berries, they might play a game of spitting seeds.  
If you are walking near a bunch of them, they may hit you in the head with them.  They have been known to swoop down and steal food from picnickers and people eating lunch.  A good rule of thumb is: see one Boughbreak, you are likely missing the other two taking your food.  They build their nests in thick bushes.  They were called boughbreaks because they crowd their nests - so much so that the original settlers thought the branches would break under the weight of them all.  At dusk and in the morning you can hear the clusters of birds in the underbrush rustling and chirping.  
Unfortunately, they are also known as a source of the red mites that nearly decimated the crops of the early Esle Plain Settlers.  Before the Settlers bioengineered their crops, the red mites would eat and sicken the fields of the settlers.  The Boughbreaks brought unwelcome guests that forced the settlers to rely on the Mothership for grain and seed harvested inside the Hydroponic Chambers on the Mothership.  
Most settlers don't like the Boughbreaks.  They are a symbol of early hardship.  On the other hand, Boughbreaks, when you can catch them in traps or by hunting, are very good eating.