Sabrewing

The Sabrewing is a common enemy found in survival mode as well as other modes. It follows the player, launches spikes and pecks at the players head. It can also pick up guns that are dropped and throwable drops and shoot or throw them at the player. Most weapons can kill it quickly (including a single punch from a metalface), but there are usually multiple birds that are after the player. They spawn from eggs, which spawn in bird nests and on Trunkan heads.

Sabrewings will fly around the map is somewhat circular patterns when idle. When they spot a target, sabrewings will fly into the enemy in order to attempt pecking. Sometimes they will "harass" you by simply flying into you for a short while before pecking. When a sabrewing is about to peck, it makes a small, grunt-like honk. This same sound is played when a sabrewing plucks a spike from its plumage, and occasionally when it throws a weapon. Both attacks do little damage (the spike can even be rolled away), but are deadly in swarms.

Sabrewings will tire out after a moment of flying; this can be identified by a wailing squawk and the sabrewing slowly losing altitude. When completely tired out, sabrewings will fall to the ground or any other surface and remain still, getting up after a short pause. Use this to your advantage.

Rolling into a sabrewing will stun it temporarily, as will any collision at a high enough speed. Jumping on a sabrewing will produce the same effect and this can even be used to gain a small boost in height or airtime.

Using a Sabre Egg, you can have your own sabrewing, that will attack enemies for you. Its colors can be customized in the profile menu.

Location
Sabrewings are found in many maps and gamemodes, including Survival House (both the Classic Survival and Waves Survival versions), in the outdated Classic Survival version, they spawned on top of the second building from the players' spawn. The Guards' spawner spawned them in waves 5, 6 and 7. They could also be found in the outdated map Safest Gate, where they had 2 spawns: one on the top of the first building at the left of spawn, and one on the top of the first building at the right. The Guards' spawner would only spawn them in wave 5.

Sabrewings were found in deadly swarms in the Classic Survival map Bird Temple.

Tips
A sabrewing spawned in the later stages of Survival House carried a Thermal Bomb. If you managed to kill the sabrewing before it activated the bomb, you could obtain the bomb for yourself.