Birds and Flocks SE

This mod will add in dozens and dozens more instances of birds that fly away when startled by either the player or another creature. The effect is one that already exists in the game but was used very rarely, so I expanded its use.

This mod also adds in many more circling birds of prey along cliffs, tundras, forests, and mountain ranges.

Now includes more bats in dungeons!

Birds and Flocks uses under-utilized vanilla assets to add many additional immersive encounters with birds and bats by adding additional activators for such encounters. As such, it is highly compatible out-of-the-box with minimal conflicts. The only affected mods are those that edit cell records, such as lighting mods. I have provided patches for ELFX, ELFX Hardcore, Lux, Lux Orbis, and ELE. Can do more upon request.

Thank you to dovahsbane for permission to port this to Special Edition, as the previous port has been removed.

In addition to updating the form ID, I have also:

-flagged as ESL

-updated all the water flow records

-cleaned ITM (identical to master) records

-removed empty cell & worldspace records

-removed dirty edits

-removed new cells

-forwarded survival mode records

-forwarded fixes from SLaWF

-forwarded changes from USSEP

See my other mods here

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