[ Gralat doesn't see much point in the work that they are meant to do here. There are far better things than one could do with ones time.

He also has never seen a hose before, and after spraying one too many people with it he was deemed more of a menace than a help.

Now he's just wandering, and is wondering what the birds might taste like, and how well they handle sub zero temperatures. ]

Presumably, somebody has researched them. If you were to search there would not unlikely exist a book or two on the subject of birds that could mention this particular kind.