Possible Clues:

• .Fabulous bird of the East
• Giant bird: I don't believe it will be repulsed
• Sounds as if it must have been hard for it to take off
• '90s Fox sitcom
• Legendary flier? It's hard to say
• '1001 Nights' bird
• Stone the crows, by the sound of it? No, something far bigger
• Fabulous bird - a fast ascender into space, not half!
• Is one fly enough to be bigger and sound bolder?
• Gigantic bird of Eastern legend