An ancient bird kidnaps locals from a Native American reservation in New Mexico, where Shaggy, Scooby, and the gang visit Shaggy's old friend, Jimmy Proudwolf and his dog, Shooby. Shaggy is about to enter a contest with a sculpture he made of Scooby's head, but the bird steals it, right before kidnapping Daphne.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Animation Bump: The Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cameo. Even though it was simply animated in Korea (by Lotto Animation, to be exact), many have found it to be animated much better than The Looney Tunes Show and Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production a decade later.
- The Cameo: By three Looney Tunes characters:
- As the gang are driving to New Mexico, Scooby looks out the window to see Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner with a rocket on his back.
- A picture of Tweety Pie is on Avery Orenthal's checklist of rare birds.
- Casting Gag: Billy West, who voiced Shaggy in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, guest-stars and uses his Shaggy voice for Shaggy's childhood friend and race-swapped Doppelgänger Jimmy Proudwolf.
- Company Cross References: In the Looney Tunes, another franchise owned by Warner Bros. at the time, make cameos
- Deer in the Headlights: Scooby freezes in terror as the Wakumi swoops down on him. It just barely misses him when Fred tackles Scooby, throwing both of them out of the creature's way.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Jimmy talks about getting the dogs inside and asks if the gang saw anything strange in the sky while driving there. Moments later, the Wakumi almost grabs Scooby.
- Giant Flyer: The Monster of the Week is a giant eagle known as the Wakumi.
- Kidnapping Bird of Prey: The Wakumi captures both Daphne and another climber named Leon Strongfeather and has them placed in a cage.
- Now You Tell Me: When Shaggy voices a wish that his old friend Jimmy could see his sculpture, Fred decides they have time for a brief visit and does a u-turn to reach the off-ramp for the reservation. Afterwards, he tells everyone to hang on. Velma sarcastically thanks him for telling them now.
- Refuge in Audacity: The villain behind the Wakumi (Colonel Henry Thornwald) fully explains his motives despite said motives being highly classified, kept secret from even the governmentnote , because no one will believe a bunch of meddling kids. Somewhat subverted in that he still gets arrested, but it's not revealed if anyone outside the gang believes the story.
- Scaling the Summit: The gang (minus Daphne) end up climbing up the mountain in order to try and find out what the Wakumi really is.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The superstitious climbing guide apologetically retreats down the mountain after the monster abducts Daphne, leaving the gang to venture after her alone.
- Stranger Behind the Mask: Subverted. The culprit behind the bird turns out to be a man from the military that neither the gang nor the viewers have seen before, however he actually did appear earlier in the episode disguised as a shaman.
- Unusual Euphemism: The birdwatcher yells, "Oh, chirp!" when frustrated.
