Sometimes when birb spawns, it spawns nowhere near the crusaders and right next to the dragon. This means a good dragon can pop out of their camping spot for a few and eat the birb which kind of goes against the idea of birb being an anti camp thing. So why not just choose the player farthest from the dragon when birb would usually spawn to have them appear right next to him or already equipped.
having it equipped would defeat the purpose of letting the dragon eat the birb
they could still eat it if the knight misses as a punish move