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Adds Ravens, Pheasents, Seagulls, flocks of birds and bats flying around skyrim, and includes unique audio for Bone Hawks, and places more Bone Hawks around vampire lairs, and Adds ghosts ravens and undead bone hawks to Soul Cairn, and includes more placed hawks and Hawk nests.

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-Edmond's Nature Series Part 1-



Description
This mod will add Ravens, Pheasants, and Seagulls all over the world. Additionally flocks of birds and bats flying around have been placed as random encounters to stumble on. Bone Hawks have been given a unique audio and more of them have been placed in Skyrim close to Vampire lairs and in the Soul Cairn. Ghosts ravens have also been placed Soul Cairn as well. Finally there have been numerous newly placed hawks around Skyrim and Hawk nests. All nests, and birds can be killed and looted. Seagulls will go to sleep at night and come back out in the morning.

I plan to have a ongoing nature series were I will release mods enhancing the nature of Skyrim. This part is focused on birds but other future parts will focus on flowers, Deer, and spiders.





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Whats Included
I will keep this direct and simple this mod does the following:
  • Dyndolod LOD rules for Seagulls, vanilla Hawks, and undead Bone Hawks have been made in this mod
  • 405 Seagulls have been placed in Skyrim and Solstheim - Seagulls go to sleep at 9pm and wake up at 6am
  • 72 ravens have been placed around Skyrim (they are walking around scavenging and perched looking around they are not flying)
  • 77 new flocks of birds flying around have been placed around Skyrim
  • 20 new colonies of bats have been placed flying around Skyrim
  • 62 new vanilla Hawks have been placed flying around Skyrim
  • 12 Pheasant flocks have been placed in Skyrim in addition there is a 15% chance to find one in the wild at any time anywhere you can find Red Foxes or Hares (forests and swamps in tall grass)
  • 33 Undead Bone Hawks have been placed around Skyrim flying around Vampire Dens and in the Soul Cairn. By vanilla the only Bone Hawks are at the Vampire Castle. I have also added unique audio to them that I custom made.
  • 18 Ghost Ravens have been added to the Soul Cairn - Ravens are regarded by many cultures to walk between the worlds of life and death and to that end it felt fitting to include a few phantom versions in the Soul Cairn
  • 21 Hawk nests with lootable eggs have been placed around Skyrim near the newly placed Hawks exists. By vanilla only 3 Hawk Nests existed and they were all at the Hearthfire Homes.
  • Mod is a true ESL extension mod
  • All newly added birds have unique audio calls that they will make and can be killed and looted
  • Mod can have any and every mod overwrite it
  • Mod can be installed mid game or on a new game



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Compatibility
-This mod is stand alone no patches are required. Will you always be able to see all the birds regardless of where you place this mod in your load order and regardless of any mod you have overwriting this mod. The only 2 mods on nexus I don't recommend using with this mod are "Birds and Flocks" and "Seagulls of Skyrim" I used those mods as inspiration for placement so the sky's will be very busy with those installed and birds will likely run into each other or cause double vision. Outside of these two every single other mod on nexus is compatible as a rule. If a exception to the rule is found I would make a patch for it and post the exception here.

-That stated the only existing exception to this rule is the mod "City Entrances Overhaul - Windhelm" and the FYX series mod which fully remove or fundamentally change vanilla objects. Therefore I have created a single patch file that removes all the ravens on Windhelm bridge and 1 raven in the Windhelm graveyard to account for these 2 mods. These mods are the only exception to the rule at this time that im aware of.


Required Files and Installation
-Only Skyrim is Required (Any Version - VR, SE, AE, 1.5.9.7, latest version doesn't matter)
-Set this mod to the top of your load order right after the DLC's and let every mod you have overwrite it
-Mod can be installed on a existing game or new game