Bird snare

The Bird snare is an item available from the Hunter supply stores in Yanille and Nardah. These snares require no bait. They are set in Hunter areas to catch the various birds of RuneScape. Snaring birds always provides bones, raw bird meat, and variously coloured feathers to be used in fishing or fletching.

Bird snares are used in the Bird Snaring method of training hunter.

Bird snares have three stages, as shown below. The first being the setup stage, in which the player has newly set a trap and is waiting for a bird. The second stage consists of a fallen trap, whether it failed from a bird's attempt, or simply fell of its own accord. The third, and preferred, is a successful trap, from which a player will need to take off the bird, claiming the bones, bird meat, and feathers, before they can proceed.

Trivia

 * Interestingly, setting up a bird snare uses the same animation as that when lighting a fire with a tinderbox.
 * If you set your trap as soon as you dismantle one, your trap will be on the ground as if you dropped it. This might also happen if you do something else before the animation is over.
 * When your trap is sprung, the "investigate" option will no longer be there until you set your snare again.
 * Once you have a catch, the only right-click option will be "check bird snare", instead of "investigate" and "dismantle".
 * If the snare falls over exactly when a bird will land on it, the bird will fly down as if to land on it but the bird will not land and you will not catch it.
 * Sometimes when you catch a bird, it appears momentarily on the ground before appearing caught in the trap.
 * After a while, the bird snare will collapse and you will have to reset the trap.
 * The bird snare is modeled after an actual trap, called the Ojibwa Bird Snare or Ojibwa Bird Pole Trap, that was once used to catch Passenger Pigeons in North America.
 * If you examine it while it's on your inventory you will receive the message "A simple bird catcher", but if you examine it when it's set up you will receive the message "A simple device for catching birds".
 * If you examine it after a bird broke it, you will receive the message "The trap has been sprung but has failed to c
 * atch anything".

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Bird snare

Bird snare