Vent Warblers

"Among the more exotic gifts offered to me at the end of my tour of Parime was a specimen of a local bird, engineered and kept exclusively by the Vaduz, called a Vent Warbler. It was a suitably small bird, of dull yellow and green colorations with a short-sharp beak and long, tapered legs decorated with engraved metal jewelry. My liason at the time explained to me that since the earliest days of the Vaduz's reign of space, a Warbler acted as a means of pest control aboard stations and as a 'sentinel' bird, trained in various ways to alert a crew of anomalies within a station's atmosphere. I was warned as I graciously accepted the gift that such birds need to stay in microgravity, as their bodies can't handle earthlike gravity-wells. Nobody's perfect, I suppose."

— Rosalina Toro - Reflections of Parime, Revised Edition.

"Vaduzians don't usually get along with pets. In an enviroment where superfluous mass is the ultimate evil and margins for error are razor-thin, they're just more trouble than they're worth. Vent Warblers are the exception to this because they weigh next to nothing and clean more messes than they make, and so the spacers pour all their repressed love for animal companionship into the ratty little things. I've not seen it myself, but I hear that if a station has to evacuate, the Warblers are second only after the heads of staff, and I really don't have a reason to be skeptical about that claim."

— Co-Op Jr Tech Oh-Razor, circa 5011u

Scientific Name

Phylloscopus Trochilus Astrala

Origin/Ancestry

2nd Committee Genebank

Lifespan

20 Years

Average Weight

12g

Average Length

11cm

Geographic Distribution

• The Lanes