The treatment of the tree is truly unjust. It was standing there, just minding its business when its truck was pierced through. Then its truck was shattered by the metallic feather as it drilled out of it. A trunk about 5 meters thick shattered. The thickness of the trunk is even more than his height. He will not get away unscathed if one of those feathers finds its way into his body. Those feathers are lethal and also silent. They make for very deadly projectiles.
Anyone using sound to track the birds would have received a nasty surprise when a feather pierces their body only for them to hear its sounds of movement after the act. The feather projectiles are faster than sound. The Ravens are capable of shooting out their metallic feathers as projectiles with speed faster than sound itself. With the way the feather penetrated that tree trunk, whoever gets hit by it would have something more important on their minds than the sound of its passage.