Snow Corvisnapper

The Snow Corvisnapper replaced its ancestor in its range. It lives in the polar regions of Maineiac. To adapt for the cold environment, it has fully-feathered legs and wing membranes. It is an opportunist and consumes various small fauna, fruit, eggs, and seeds. It is able to eat iron fauna, and what iron it doesn’t use for its blood and tissues is removed via its feces. It has been known to harass predators to steal kills and board beached wolvershrog nests to feast on their food stores. It varies somewhat in color pattern, but it is usually white with dark speckles, which makes it resemble a pile of snow dotted with either debris or ash from the nearby volcano.

The snow corvisnapper's mouth suits its lifestyle better than its ancestor's. Instead of its (note, unbeaked) jaws being shaped like a beak for some reason, it has a long snout typical of an opportunist. It retains heterodont dentition, but instead of a mix of pointed and peg-like teeth, it has dromaeosaur-like serrated teeth towards the front and troodontid-like teeth towards the back, allowing it to chew flora and caparaces alike and tear into meat with ease. It is somewhat social and may forage in small groups.

Like its ancestor, the snow corvisnapper nests in groups among rocks. Though it is not a mountain species, the rise in sea levels over the past few dozen million years reduced all landmasses to just their mountains, so even terrain near sea level is rough. Unlike its ancestor, both parents care for the eggs and take turns incubating them. Nesting occurs during the short polar summer. Juveniles gain full plumage and flight ability very quickly, but take nearly 2 years to reach full size. They can live up to around 15 years.

The snow corvisnapper has, through accidental consumption of eggs inside cryobowls which then survived the trip through its digestive system and landed in pools of snowmelt, spread the scaled diveskunik to Maineiac Tundra and Maineiac Polar Scrub.