Jingyi's tail for reasons he'll whine about later is turning into a festival of scrabbling talons and birds getting whipped back out of it while supremely dedicated to latching on. A few get holds in his fur, though the speed of his whipping tail when he feels their talons is not particularly kind to the birds. Perhaps even deadly, though his aim in this is simply shaking them off as fast as possible. He notably is not trying to engage in physical fights, despite being a flying body in the air.

Which is why, seeing the immense bird re-emerge from the massive attack unleashed downward from the airship, while he dives to confront, what he does not do is physically throw himself at the other creature: he instead forms another seal with his talons and releases a compressed, sharp blade of air down at the joint of a wing to the body, and he shrieks.

... To see if it has an effect. Also partly because he felt like it.

"Stay down already!"