Boobries are huge flightless heron-like birds, half again as tall as a human. Not content to eat worms and bugs, they prefer stabbing their victims with their vicious beaks. Through them, they suck out the juices, leaving a dried-out husk for the few desperate scavengers that will even approach such a sorry sight. One imagines it to be a very slow and painful death.
Even a sluagh thinks twice about messing with a boobrie.