Karnis bird

"Ooh! A flock of Karnis birds. I've never seen them in person—"
"Lys! Pay attention."

―Lys Solay and Nash Durango^[1]

Karnis birds were a type of^[1] chirping^[4] bird^[1] found on^[2] the planet^[4] Tenoo,^[2] as well as its big moon^[1] Dedoon.^[5] The birds chittered, were green in color, had black eyes, and had a blue-and-orange pattern on their wings.^[1] Around 233 BBY,^[6] Jedi younglings Kai Brightstar and Lys Solay passed by a Karnis bird as they rode speeders on a Tenoo river, though Solay did not notice it.^[2] Later, while practicing flying in a Jedi Vector starship on the big moon, Solay became distracted by a flock of the birds—she had never seen them in person prior to then. She would have crashed into a boulder had the pilot Nash Durango not warned her.^[1]

Later around that year,^[6] Brightstar, Solay, and the Jedi youngling Nubs watched a Karnis bird flock fly by while riding a train on Tenoo, commenting on the planet's natural beauty and wildlife creatures.^[4] While pursuing the bounty hunter Ansen Strung, the three younglings traveled to the far side of a forest with Strung's sibling, Senna Strung, and flew alongside some of the birds as they rode on speeder bikes.^[3]

Behind the scenes

Karnis birds first appeared in "Get Well Nubs"^[2] and "Squadron,"^[1] the first parts of the third and sixth episodes of the animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures,^[1]^[2] which were both released on May 4, 2023.^[7] "Squadron" first identified the birds by name.^[1]