Heracles flushed the Stymphalian Birds from their roost using a bronze rattle forged by Hephaestus, then shot them down with his poisoned arrows as his sixth labor.
The Stymphalian Birds were sacred to Ares, god of war. After Heracles drove them from Lake Stymphalus, the survivors fled to the Island of Ares in the Black Sea.
The Argonauts encountered the Stymphalian Birds on the Island of Ares in the Black Sea. They drove the birds off by banging on their shields, echoing Heracles's noise-based strategy.
Eurystheus commanded Heracles to drive out the Stymphalian Birds as his Sixth Labor. The man-eating flock had made the marshes around Lake Stymphalus impassable.
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