The Kuuks

“The Kuuks were a kind of domesticated bird kept by the inhabitants of Varlaurea continent and being raised for meat, egg and feather.

They’re an omnivore bird, usually saw digging the ground for seed, small fruit, insect, worm and sometime even hunted animal smaller than them.
To easily picture them, imagine the chicken of our world, with a longer neck and a long tail wholly covered in tail feather, personally I find these birds look more akin to the feathered Therapod Dinosaur in our world. And according to the local folk, their tail is the best part of the bird (confirmed)

They’re being farm throughout Varlaurea continent, and like the chicken, had been bred and develop into many variations of shape, size and colour. They were also being kept at pet by every societal classes and further being bred into more impressive and fancy looking breeds.

Due to sexual dimorphism, the male Kuuk usually have more colourful feather coat than the female, the main colour variation are copper red, brownish red, light brown, grey, black, white. They also have a mane of feather on their head and under the neck. Their flight feathers and rectrices are longer and pointier than their female counterpart, with a slightly puffy feather coat. Female Kuuk have less colour variations, only brown, light brown and white. Their coat gave them a smoother and slenderer silhouette than the male, their flight feathers and rectrices also have rounded tip, and the rectrices also shorter than the male.

 The Kuuk lay between 3 to 7 eggs each time, the male and female take turn to incubate their eggs in 20 days. After hatched for an hour, the chicks already could walk on their own and follow their mother to forage for food, at this stated the chicks only have a fine fuzz coat with a cute fuzzy tail. They’ll change their coat overtime and will look like the adult bird when reached 6 to 7 months old.”

From “A Journey to Varlaurea continent” by Chickknight Greenleaf.

Chapter 3 “Fauna of Varlaurea”