Deathbird | Elden Ring Wiki

Just remember that Elden Ring isn't Dark Souls, you're not supposed to have honourable 1v1 bow-before-the-fight duels with the feathered incarnations of Death. Get Holy Water Pots, aim for the head, use Torrent and ledges, and don't complain this is a "bad boss" just because you can't claymore it.

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Mountaintop and Snowfield variations are the hardest boss.

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“DESU-BODO” cried Miyazaki, sh*tting himself in fear.

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The capital outskirts deathbird map link shows the Limgrave deathbird’s location instead btw.

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Scenic Isle Deathbird didnt drop the Red-Feathered Branchsword for me, I got the Ancient Death Rancor spell instead

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Hit it with the Sacred Blade AoW in the head, then go straight for the body with some R1 or L1 spams if you're powerstancing, now that you're weapon has been imbued with the power of Christ. Don't give yourselves headaches going for the head.

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Wait is this supposed to be a well designed boss? I personally hate fighting these things and I think they are a poorly designed fight. Small weapons don't hit them often and the camera is terrible, and they have a lot of frame-trapping bs attacks. What am I missing here? Do people actually enjoy these fights?

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The Last Chicken In The Shop.

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The only boss here is the camera.

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There is no way somebody play tested these. Contender for worst designed boss fights in the game lmao

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Litany of proper death should do 1300% extra damage not 1400%

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We all forgetting about the one in Snowfields near Apostate Derelict that gives Explosive Ghostflame? And the One in Liurnia nea the East Gate Bridge Trestle that gives Anchient Rancorcall?

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I ended up doing these all in one night in game,
+20 staff plus stars of ruin.
most frustrating part was enemies barging in and interrupting me while i was casting on torrent.

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There is a second bird in liurnia east of raya lucaria

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I tot I taw a terribly designed boss! I DID, I did tee a terribly designed boss!

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Please do yourself and your sanity a favor and never fight these without Sacred Blade AoW. It's easy to get, easy to spam, and melts them like crazy. Holy pots are good, but you only have so many, and considering how much the birds jump around, it's not worth it to throw a limited use item with no tracking. Also, the late game birds are so tough, that you will have a seriously hard time killing them with just pots.

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I ended up coming back to the one in Leyndell Outskirts after getting the Blade of Calling, and using that AOW with a faith/holy-boosting Physick made this fight easy peasy

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there is also one in Caelid btw

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Casters, use rock sling with meteorite staff. Lock on to the head for some crazy damage and quick stuns.

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Holy water pots do a good job on these, but they do scale to FTH so I don't know how well if you don't have levels put into it. A word of caution though the death rite bird at consecrated snowfield will not melt to the holy water pots, it will kill you long before you can take advantage of its weakness to holy damage, try ekzykes's decay instead if you have it.

The death rite bird at mountaintop of the giants can be cheesed, if you follow the cliff edge looking down at castle sol west until it spawns then make a quick getaway for it to lose agro you will be able to get to a position above it to throw the holy water pots down on it and kill it pretty quickly, I had 45 FTH though. The giant purple skeleton the tibia mariner summons was bugged for me, it was there every time long after I'd killed the mariner if its the same for everyone its worth killing it before getting near the area where the death rite bird spawns, fighting both is going to be a headache.

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Oceiros, the Consumed King reskinned.

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I have the red feathered branch sword but I only remember killing the death rite bird closer to the raya lucaria academy. Does the bird at leyndell outskirts spawn in an area where the dead rise when you get close enough? If they are, will the bird still spawn if I clear the area of those skeletons and just wait until it gets to night? or do I have to trigger the fight straight from a grace checkpoint?

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SCP-4975

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These always jump me, promptly kill me, then never respawn again.

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holy water pot. all's im sayin

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Jus saying, the giants next to the first deathbird spawn in limgrave apparently do crazy damage to the bird.

The thing had to have had at least a third of its HP left when one of the giants just finished it off...

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I am going to have a stroke with how many people not knowing the difference between Deathbirds and Death Rite Birds. It's literally on the boss bar

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This page is missing the Deathbird in the Consecrated Snowfield

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The one at Leyndell spawned once, killed me then never spawned again.. I want that twinbird kite shield so bad :(

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I forgot these even existed until one attacked me just now lol

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Idk if anyone has realized but there seem to be two different pages for this enemy? Deathbird and Death Rite Bird

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Throw some Holy water at it or Sacred Blade and get your runes

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The Castle More one is by the Ramparts not the cliff.

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One Deathbird is due south from the 'Gate Town North' site of grace not more than 50 paces, just past a sunken building with a tall spire, east of the Raya Lucaria academy.

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Me when I run out of ideas for boss names:

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You missed the Deathbird in Caelid in the general region of the Dragon Communion church, to the east

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Your missing the Death Birds East of Apostate Derelict in Mntn of Giants. Also the one next to the graveyard where the giant ghost skeletons spawn. Also Mntn of Gnts

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Sacred blade ash of war. No faith needed either

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This doesn't mention the one in the Consecrated Snow Fields.

At the very north of the river, near the cliff edge.

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The most dangerous part about this boss is somehow getting interrupted by bats every time

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Ran into this in Caelid as well.

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The limgrave one...sure, let me just fight 3 bats, 2 trolls, 5 goats and a ****ing deathbird simultaneously at level 15

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Got ambushed by one of these things in Stormhill. Immediately pecked to death. Came back and sent it to hell with Holy Water.

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We got a lot of these here in Brazil!

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There are 8 death birds + 2 in Frost Mountains zone, 2 in Liurnia, 1 Limgrave, 1 Weeping Peninsula, 1 Capital OutSkirts and 1 Caelid- Use Holy attacks or grease and easy game.

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If you're wanting the Sacrificial Axe early, grab the Sacred Blade Ash from the scarab north of the Third Church of Marika. The holy ranged attack will deal a huge chunk lot of damage. Being weak to both holy and strike, putting the ash on Morning Star will probably net you an easy win.

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The one in the Weeping Peninsula drops 15,600 runes in NG+ if anyone cares to update this wiki.

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At least for the Liurnia one; It has a leap back, scream, into a lunge/grab combo that is 1HKOing me. Doesn't seem to be on its movelist

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Missing the deathbird south east of Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank in Caelid, drops the Ash of War; Poison Moth Flight for early game poison arcane builds.

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More like "insanity bird" "Anger inducing bird" "the annoying bird" "the bird without counter Windows" "the you died bird" "the gid gud bird" "the have fun making it night time again bird" and honestly my favorite. " the F YOU! BIRD"

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There's another one in Liurna of the Lakes.

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There's another one in Liurna of the Lakes.

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Theres one in Caelid too, surprised its not listed.

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>strong against lightning, thrust

So that's why my lightning estoc was struggling even when overleveled. How... specific.

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I had some difficulty at first, however he is very weak to holy damage. Lock onto his body and not his head, get as close as possible to limit his moveset and just mash away with a sacred weapon keeping an eye on his head for peck attacks. I infused an Uchigatana with Sacred Blade for fairly extreme damage.

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fokin dethbirb

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the place in capital isn't accurate. it is located when just around the winged crystal tear. (patch 1.04)

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Get a random weapon and put Shared Order on it. That way you can switch back to your main weapon and have Holy damage on it. Easy 5-6k per hit with Blasphemous Blade L2.

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The one in Caelid, east of the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank, drops Deaths Poker

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this thing randomly showed up while i was grinding a area. since it hadnt appeared before suddenly seeing a boss hp bar in a area i hadnt seen a boss in before scared me

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There is one south of the Gate Town North site of grace.

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There is another one on the mountaintop of Giants, east of the Apostate Derelict.

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There is one in mountaintops of giants, toward the end of the graveyard on the road to castle sol.

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That cancerous grab attack though...

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Of course you can kill it pretty easily with some kind of magic that he is weak to. But as someone who enjoy melee, the camera locks on his head which is too high so 80% of your hit misses. He's too fast to fight unlocked but it's the only way. Keeps getting out of HUD. Defenitly made to fight with magic. Dissapointing.

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i kid you not, grab the sacred blade from the limgrave church put it on your weapon and you can kill any one of these damn things. i went from doing 60 dmg with a mace to around 200-300 per hit with the buff active. damn ridiculous

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Tweety bird looking mofo

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These are extremely vulnerable to anything that has a bonus vs 'Those Who Live in Death'.

I was able to hit 3k+ damage consistently with an Inseparable Sword +7 using it's Sacred Blade ash of war, at base level stats for the sword.

The ash of war should have a strong effect on all weapons. If you're struggling with these enemies you can get the ash of war just north of the Third Church of Marika from a scarab beetle.

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There is second bird in Liurna that gives Ancient Death Rancor sorcery. South from Gate Town North.

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Holy water pots. 4 should be enough for stomhill and weeping

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Wrong item for the lake bird, it gives the red feathered branch sword talisman when killed
The death rite bird just up north gives the spell

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The red feathered branchsword bird in liurnia drops 6600 runes

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Deathbird Liurna of the Lakes Runes is 6600. Just defeated it now.

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By the way, there are two kinds of deathbirds: the regular ones (from this page) and death rite birds. The latter are on a separate page. Some of y’all are commenting “additional” locations but really you’re talking about death rite birds

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Made an account to comment that the Liurnia of the Lake Deathbird drops 6600 runes

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I definitely fought this on the Mountaintop of the Giants, right before that section with all the giant ghost skeletons.

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Litany of Proper Death deals insanely high damage to deathbirds. Each hit reached almost 3k

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Litany of Proper Death deals insanely high damage to deathbirds. Each hit reached almost 3k

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There is also one in Caelid, just up a hill to the mostly east slightly south of the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank grace, it drops a greatsword called deaths' poker, with a unique weapon art and 65 frost buildup

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This thing clips into the ground so much

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There is another deathbird by the site of grace "castle sol main gate" in the mountain top of giants. I haven't beaten it as it spawns with a ton of those laser beam skeleton guys and was more focused on the castle anyways

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I didn't record this as well as I figured this site would know, but I guess I know something you guys didn't for once. There is a deathbird in the consecrated snowfields at the end of the frozen river bed in the northeast past the walking mausoleum (closest site of grace: apostate derelict). it drops 300k runes and a spell "Explosive Ghostflame" (attribute requirement: Int:42, Fai:30; Slots used: 1; FP Cost: 36) (item effect: "causes ghostflame explosion that burns wide area" (the grammar is their's, not mine))(Description: "Socery of the servants of Death. \n Strike the ground with the staff, triggering an explosion of ghostflame that burns the surrounding area. \n In the time when there was no Erdree, death was burned in ghostflame. Deathbirds were the keepers of that fire.")

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The one at Southern Liurnia drops 6600 runes, no rune-boosting equipment equipped.

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wow the one in Capital Outskirts, with those goshdarned hecking skeleton snails!

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I've just killed one west (and a little to the south) of the southern aeonia swamp bank. Just ride torrent for 10 seconds from the site of grace and you will see it from quite afar.
It drops the Death's Poker as actually stated on its page : https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Death's+Poker

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Another one east of trader near cathedral or dragon communion in Caelid

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7920 Runes from Southern Liurnia bird with Golden Scarab equipped

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Can anybody confirm the cheese on the one east of Hermit Merchant's Shack or give more specific directions on how to do it? I walked it over to that cliff and couldn't figure out how to get it to fall off.

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There's also a Deathbird at the NW end of the frozen river at rhe consecrated snowfields. I don't remember what he drops but it's a spell.

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Deathbird only dropped 2800 runes for me

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There is a deathbird in the mountaintops of the giants near a tibia mariner.

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This is a list of both Deathbirds and Death Rite Birds, but it is missing the Death Rite Bird in Liurnia. Just south of the Gate Town North pog. You can't miss it.

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The Weeping Peninsula death bird can be killed with the help of the bow golem by Morne Castle, just keep the bird downhill from you and the golem will occasionally deal good damage and stance break it for you. I used this strategy to kill it only a few levels after starting and if you're good enough at dodging the attacks you should have an easier time.

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For anyone having trouble, try Holy Water Pots. Will do around 1000 damage per pot

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Where do I stand to do a critical hit? It's eye glows but I can't seem to of a critical attack no matter where I stand

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Where do I stand to do a critical hit? It's eye glows but I can't seem to of a critical attack no matter where I stand

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extremely weak to holy, no matter how many faith you have

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ok so why the 2 seperate pages for deathbird vs death rite bird if the caelid one that drops the poker is on both

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Half the comments here are confusing Deathbirds with Death Rite Birds. Yes, they're similar, but they're not exactly the same.

The main differences are that Death Rite Birds use a lot more magic, have blue particle effects in the holes in their skulls and wings,, and have larger wings than Deathbirds.

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The ones on Mountaintops of the Giants are "Death Rite Bird". They are uglier than the normal "Death Bird". There's a dedicated page for them, people, so please stop spamming it in the comments. Although there's an error on this page, the one on Caelid is a Death Rite Bird not a Death Bird. One's ugly, the other's uglier. C'mon, they deserve some respect.

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