I picked Magpie as my animal, but I think I'm really more of a passenger pigeon. Or possibly a gray squirrel, back in the days when they migrated with the pigeons: I descend on a fandom in a chittering hyperactive mass, strip it clean of all readable stories in one week flat, and then swoop off to the next one. But I'll come back when it's had time to re-grow a bit!

Also I don't so much haul shiny things back to the nest as I bury them in little secret caches all over the place to unexpectedly find later. And I don't so much gafiate in bad seasons as curl up in my nest with stories and only come out when I need to go find one of my old caches for more supplies.