Snowy Quartet Report

Introduction 

This Bird is a rare species that is known as the Snowy Quartet or Pavo Nivis (snow peacock). With three layers of thick, fluffy feathers, it’s very different to any other bird.

Description

The Snowy Quartet is a type of bird and can turn its head about 270°,  has huge yellow eyes to be able to see prey from afar, long wings to help it fly through rough conditions , sharp claws and beak to sweep up and kill prey, the female has a pouch to carry its chick in for 13 weeks until the baby can fly and defend itself on its own, 4 short but strong legs to help it run quickly and catch its prey on the ground and a large blue tail to help it steer while it’s in the air and to help it find a mate.

Habitat

The Snowy Quartet  is found on land in the tall, snow covered cliffs with tundra below to catch its prey, they live on Planet X (A new planet recently discovered by a team of scientists). In the cliffs, the temperature ranges from -20°C to -40°C.

Behavioural Characteristics

The Snowy Quartet can fly up to 80 kilometres per hour in the air and up to 30 kilometres per hour on the ground. It lays hard shelled eggs and builds their nests out of rocks with pink moss on top. It has nostrils at the base of its beak, uses its large eyes to see, has small ear holes in the sides of its head to hear everything around it, uses its beak and claws to catch its prey and has rough dinosaur like feet to run on the ground. They can grow up to 90 centimeters tall and weigh up to 8 kilograms. It has lungs to breath with and produces food waste through its cloaca. They live for up to 35 to 40 years.

Diet

The Snowy Quartet eats a wide range of different things, they eat arctic lemmings, arctic ground squirrels, tundra vole, muskrats, arctic hare and wild berries. They get their food from down in the tundra below the cliffs and they use their four legs to run quickly and swiftly along the ground to catch their prey.

  Summary

In summary this is a very interesting 4 legged creature that lives in between the equator and the north pole of Planet X. They are endangered and there are only approximately 1,000 left in the wild that we know of and their population is slowly increasing. They use their tail feathers to mate (If the female finds a male with a larger, more beautiful tail then it will leave the one that it’s with for the more beautiful one).

 Adaptations

By Charlotte Garchow & Taliah Nika