Ona

Ona is a young female hamerkop that resides in the Pride Lands.

Appearance
Ona's feathers are pale grey, flecked with white and brown. She has a crest of grey feathers atop her head. Her legs and beak are blue, and her eyes are black.

Personality
Ona is very loving, curious, and playful. She is also very fond of grubs.

Ono and the Egg
After Kulinda notices the brave and kind heroics of Ono, a member of the Lion Guard, she decides to entrust her egg into his care, whilst preparing a nest.

After rescuing a young hyrax, the Guard escorts Ono back to his nest, where he is startled to discover the presence of an egg, which he identifies as a hamerkop egg. The Guard decides to check on the mother, Beshte questions upon the safety of the egg, and Ono checks on it, deducing that the baby is growing, and it will soon hatch.

Realizing that the egg must be kept warm, and after preventing Bunga from leaping onto it, Ono volunteers to tend to the egg, requesting that the mother be found soon. Fuli warmly assures him of the easiness in tracking her, and after catching the scent, she and Kion lead Beshte and Bunga away. Ono ponders upon the needs of the egg, before spreading himself over it, expressing his wish to remain unseen.

Eventually, he becomes restless, and is made aware of the hatching of the egg. When Ona hatches, she attempts to connect with Ono by performing a family dance, prompting Ono to hurriedly attempt to correct her.

He wonders what action to take whilst waiting for Ona's mother, whilst Ona becomes distracted by a passing bug, and stumbles out of the nest. Ono manages to catch her, and protects her from a thornbush.

Ono then prevents the chick from falling into a river, and irritably scolds her, before softening upon realizing her sate of exhaustion, agreeing to rest for a while. He leads her into the grasses, and allows her to nestle against him whilst they rest. Then, she hears her mother call out and goes to her who she's happy to see finally does performs family dance with her mother Kulinda.

Just as soon as Ona is reuntied with her, she leaves to follow another bug but she goes to the edge of the river. Fuli dashes after her but narrowly misses her Ona is stuck in a log heading for the waterfall however she is caught by Mpishi so Ono and Kulinda fly after her. They try to get her back but discover that Mpishi is working with Mwoga, but thanks to Ono and Bunga's quick thinking the chick is safe and sound.

As a reward for Ono's bravery Kulinda names her chick after the egret naming her Ona and her mother says he can comeback anytime. Since Ona considers Ono apart of the family, she does the family dance with him and her mother as the guard watches.

Family

 * Kulinda: Mother

Friends

 * Ono