Here is a description of one of my made-up animals:
Nighthawk
Size: approximately 16-20'' (not counting tail length) 2.5-3.2lbs, females are larger and more powerful while males are more agile fliers.
Physical Description: black or dark blue wingtops, cap and head stripes. Dark azure eyes and ceres. Yellow-gold to pale brown-gold talons and beak. Silver-gray or light blue belly, neck and tail with darker blue or gray flecks; the tail has horizontal blue or black stripes. Pointed wingtips.
Hunting style: hunts rodents and some small birds. Flies above prey and stoops (dives) to stun it, then dives again to catch the prey. A few have been known to hide in trees and stoop on animals below.
Habitat: nests in cliff sides, occasionally will nest in wide-limbed trees. Scrapes nest with talons and lines with down feathers, grasses, moss and other soft material. Lives in [unnamed] forest-covered mountains. Travels to higher altitude during summer to hunt and flies back to foothills in late fall and nests in early spring.
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What do you think? I am open to any suggestions... I will probably change the name since the bird is more like a falcon than a hawk.
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