Cockatrice


 * For information on the summoning familiar, see Spirit cockatrice.
 * For information on the familiar used during the 2008 Easter event, see Chocatrice.

Cockatrice are Slayer monsters that require level 25 slayer to kill. They frequently drop Limpwurt roots used in the Herblore skill. Mirror shields are neccesssary when fighting these. Because of their high frequency drops of nature runes, Cockatrices are a good way to acquire these for high alchemy spells.

In the quest Fur 'n' Seek, Cockatrice skin must be collected and cleaned for the Odd Old Man.

Locations

 * Fremennik Slayer Dungeon

Strengths and weaknesses
A mirror shield must be used when fighting these. If a regular shield (or no shield at all) is equipped, then the cockatrice will shoot out beams from its eyes quickly reducing stats to dangerously low levels (1/4 of the player's original levels eg. 15/70) and causes rapid damage for up to 11 damage per hit (it does more damage with higher levels). They have few hitpoints and do not hit substantially when mirror shields are equipped. The slash, stab, and crush attack styles seem to be accurate against them.

100% Drop

 * Bones

Weapons/Armour
Runes:
 * Iron sword (semi-common)
 * Steel dagger (semi-common)
 * Steel platelegs (rare)
 * Steel longsword (common)
 * Rune spear (very rare)
 * Dragon Spear (very rare)
 * 5 Iron Javelins (uncommon)
 * 5 Rune Javelins (very rare)
 * Iron boots (rare)
 * Mystic boots (very rare)
 * Rune med helm (very rare)
 * 2 Water runes (common)
 * 7 Fire runes (common)
 * 2, 4, or 6 Nature runes (common)
 * 2-3 Law runes (common)

Grimy Herbs

 * Guam (common)
 * Marrentill (common)
 * Harralander (common)
 * Tarromin (common)
 * Irit (rare)
 * Avantoe (common)
 * Kwuarm (uncommon)
 * Dwarf Weed (very rare)
 * Ranarr (semi-rare)
 * Lantadyme (rare)
 * Cadantine (rare)

Seeds

 * Potato
 * Onion
 * Cabbage
 * Strawberry
 * Ranarr

Other drops

 * Level 2 Clue Scroll (very rare)
 * Limpwurt root (very common)
 * Cockatrice egg (very common) [drops with other items]
 * Cockatrice head ( very rare)
 * Mithril ore (rare)
 * Uncut Gems, up to diamond (rare)
 * Half of a key (very rare)
 * Chaos talisman (very rare)
 * Coins: 1, 5, 15, 28, or 62 (very common)
 * Nothing (uncommon)

Trivia

 * The cocktrice appears to be a hybrid of a bird and a snake. This is further supported by its examine info, "The winged reptile" and all of its modified summoning counterparts, (such as the spirit zamatrice), which are all cocktrice versions of birds hatched from eggs obtained from a bird's nest. (with the exception of a penguin egg, which can be obtained from the penguin keeper in Ardougne zoo with 30 summoning)
 * This creature was based on the mythical Cockatrice
 * The Cocktrice is similar to the real-life, now extinct, Archeopteryx