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Elden Ring: Death Rite Bird (Caelid) Boss Fight

Published: July 4, 2025 at 4:46:06 PM UTC
Last updated: February 5, 2026 at 3:39:07 PM UTC

Death Rite Bird is in the lowest tier of bosses in Elden Ring, Field Bosses, and is found outdoors in Caelid, just across the road from the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank Site of Grace. It only spawns at night, so just pass time until Nightfall. Like most lesser bosses in the game, this one is optional in the sense that you do not need to kill it in order to advance the main story.


As you probably know, bosses in Elden Ring are divided into three tiers. From lowest to highest: Field Bosses, Greater Enemy Bosses and finally Demigods and Legends.

Death Rite Bird is in the lowest tier, Field Bosses, and is found outdoors in Caelid, just across the road from the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank Site of Grace. It only spawns at night, so just pass time until Nightfall. Like most lesser bosses in the game, this one is optional in the sense that you do not need to kill it in order to advance the main story.

This is not the first Death Rite Bird I’ve encountered and fought, so I know it’s critically weak to Holy Damage. My Sacred Blade Ash of War really shines here, and after some attempts where I had tried to drag out the fight a bit for some more interesting combat, only to get ganked by the bird’s insane Frostbite damage and quick hits, I decided to just nuke it down quickly and get it over with. No point in dragging out the inevitable.

As far as I could tell, the bird has exactly the same abilities as the one I previously fought in Liurnia, although it seems to have more health and do higher damage, but that is to be expected. Without a Holy based weapon, I can imagine this fight being much, much harder though ;-)

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Fan art inspired by this boss fight

Anime-style fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird boss in Caelid from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
Anime-style fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird boss in Caelid from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Click or tap the image for more information.

Anime-style Elden Ring fan art showing the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird in Caelid just before combat.
Anime-style Elden Ring fan art showing the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird in Caelid just before combat. Click or tap the image for more information.

Semi-realistic fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird boss in Caelid from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
Semi-realistic fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird boss in Caelid from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Click or tap the image for more information.

Anime-style Elden Ring fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing an undead, bird-headed Death Rite Bird in Caelid before battle.
Anime-style Elden Ring fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing an undead, bird-headed Death Rite Bird in Caelid before battle. Click or tap the image for more information.

Semi-realistic dark fantasy artwork of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird in Caelid.
Semi-realistic dark fantasy artwork of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Death Rite Bird in Caelid. Click or tap the image for more information.

Wide-view anime fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing an undead Death Rite Bird with glowing blue wings in Caelid.
Wide-view anime fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing an undead Death Rite Bird with glowing blue wings in Caelid. Click or tap the image for more information.

Realistic dark fantasy fan art of the Tarnished facing an undead Death Rite Bird in the wastelands of Caelid before combat.
Realistic dark fantasy fan art of the Tarnished facing an undead Death Rite Bird in the wastelands of Caelid before combat. Click or tap the image for more information.

Semi-realistic fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor confronting the Death Rite Bird in a crimson Caelid landscape.
Semi-realistic fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor confronting the Death Rite Bird in a crimson Caelid landscape. Click or tap the image for more information.

Isometric dark fantasy view of the Tarnished facing the undead Death Rite Bird across the cracked wastelands of Caelid.
Isometric dark fantasy view of the Tarnished facing the undead Death Rite Bird across the cracked wastelands of Caelid. Click or tap the image for more information.

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