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[floobit]

I have a newbie question.  Is there a way of prioritizing stockpiles?  For instance, I'm trying to set up a burrow at z=30 for my smelters, etc.  I would like to have a larder+kitchen there, so they don't have to walk up to z=120 to get to the regular kitchen, which is near the farms for efficiency.  I would like haulers to haul food from the kitchens to the smaller, lower larder first, with overf low going to a large stockpile near the kitchens.  Even better would be a method
 where all output from the kitchen goes directly to the local, large stockpile, and other haulers fill up smaller stockpiles as they are depleted. 

On a side note, I had two recent games where birds ate dwarfs.  In one, a pack of 4-5 ravens killed a mason making a wall, and in another, a great horned owl fought an accomplished miner to a standstill.  The miner killed the owl, but most of his bones broken in the process and expired soon after from a gaping head wound.  Is this expected behavior?  the wiki does not mention either of these birds as being dangerous.

Thanks, all. 

[toomanysecrets]

Press "q" and move the cursor over your stockpile that's further down.  Press "t" and select the main stockpile. Now it will "take" from it. There are a lot of ways to set it up; your stills can give to specific piles if you want to do it that way.

You may have encountered "giant" ravens and owls.  Or undead?

[floobit]

Thanks.  That is helpful.  The birds were just called "raven" and "Great Horned Owl."  They had the standard descriptor text, but were "gigantic."  I thought this still put them in the standard category.  I'm surprised they could even attack a dwarf. 

[FuzzyZergling]

Being "gigantic" means that they are slightly larger, but they wouldn't have any pressing advantages over a normal bird of their species.