Ok, so I was looking at the Falconer, and it looks pretty cool, but one thing is bugging me...it says "At 1st level, a falconer earns the trust and companionship of a bird of prey. The bird can be of any type of large hunting or scavenging bird (even a vulture)," which seems straight forward. Seems like one could take a hawk, vulture, roc, etc. But...then it goes to this: "It spends a full-round action flying to a high vantage point, and on the next round makes a charge attack upon an enemy the falconer designates. If that charge attack hits, the bird deals 2d4 points of damage instead of 1d4 with its bite and gains a ×4 critical modifier when making the attack." Huh? Did they mean to say that it doubles the attack dice of the bite, or are they assuming the use of a hawk? Or do they HAVE to choose a hawk, which wouldn't make sense because they specifically state that they can choose a vulture, which have a bit of 1d8 by the time this is an issue. So...what is the solution?
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Feathered Companion (Ex): At 1st level, a falconer earns the trust and companionship of a bird of prey. The bird can be of any type of large hunting or scavenging bird (even a vulture). This ability functions like the druid animal companion ability (which is part of the nature bond class feature), but the falconer must take the bird animal companion,
and that companion has only half the normal hit points.
The Falconer has to use the stats for Bird Animal Companions, which are found in the Core Book.
Yep, only the Bird animal companion, not just any animal companion that also happens to be a bird (like a roc, giant vulture, etc).
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Bird (Eagle/Hawk/Owl)
Starting Statistics
Size Small; Speed 10 ft., fly 80 ft. (average); AC +1 natural armor; Attack bite (1d4), 2 talons (1d4); Ability Scores Str 10, Dex 15, Con 12, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 6; Special Qualities low-light vision.
4th-Level Advancement
Ability Scores Str +2, Con +2.