Phoenices

4 limbs (2 legs 2 wings)

Avian; covered in feathers and scales.

Bill is a bright yellow to dingy gold. Plumage is red with yellow on wings, tail, and crest, and with purple around the eyes. The eyes are striking, with a red sclera and glowing yellow iris. Golden to yellow scales on legs and rose to blood red talons.

Has seventy times seven lives (490), each lasting 40 months (3 1/3 years), dies final death/rebirth at an estimated 1,633 1/3 years. Between lives there are nine days after which the phoenix is reborn from its own ashes

First life (when hatched from egg) is in need of its parents for food, and must learn to find food and to fly

Every other life (when born from ashes) can find own food, and remembers how to fly, as no memories are lost

Cannot fly when a youngling in any life (down feathers, no flight yet)

Nests in either torchwood (frankincense, myrrh) or laurel (cinnamons, camphor) trees

Eggs are transparent like glass, embryo inside visible

Notable phoenices include:

Phoebe

Egan