Is there a Game Manual somewhere or a walkthrough or something? I see a few new quests but I don't see how to get a bird. Where do you get the perch for the bird?

Birds can be bought in the village (though not all). The perch.. I'm trying to recall. :P

*edit* under Domestic, Professional in buy mode.

There's also some given as quest rewards and what not. Some special birds in the game you gotta acquire finding certain objects, tasks, yada yada. My favorite is the skeletal parrot. One of the cooler sides of tsm imho : ) Different birds have different items/chances when hunting also. There's a birds xml file with the items, chances, and which birds it effects. FYI, if you don't feel like getting the special birds the hard way, shimrod has a mod that makes them all available for purchase from a perch

Thanks for all the help!