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Ancestor: Blue Sparrow

Size: Around 35 cm beak to tail.

Dietary Needs: Varied diet, adpatable. Eats invertebrates, seeds, grains, fruit and even young, fresh leaves. In rare circumstances they eat carrion and small vertebrates such as tiny lizards, birds and mice. Chicks require a high animal protein diet.

Life Cycle: Much like their ancestors, males and females will mate for life. Males and females of this genus spend a similar amount of time incubating, finding food and giving their attention to their offspring, and although males are competitive over females this competition usually takes on the form of showing off their colours, posing and vocalisation rather than aggression. Male lack of sexual aggression plus females and males having a similar life expectancy means that females aren't any more likely to outlive their mate than males. Females are committed and don't have backup suitors like their ancestors did.

 They usually raise 2 broods on a good year. The chicks take considerably longer to grow than their ancestors due to being a much larger size.

Other: Slightly heavy birds with long wingtips to compensate and allow them to glide somewhat. The columpasseridae family all have some capacity to ferment vegetative matter in their gut. The Campestincola has a lesser such capacity than it's Southern forest cousin genus Silvaincola, but what it does have still adds weight. Add to that stones that they swallow to grind up stones in their gizzard and they very much need the extra wing length to get of the ground and stay airborne. They also have much more muscular chest muscles for take-off.

They don't have strong individual social bonds beyond their mates and offspring, but they keep a lookout and sound a rattling alarm when they see danger, alerting the rest of the birds in the area of the threat. They prefer to be in these loosely-knit groups where they can relax because other birds are keeping lookout. The same goes for when they are migrating, feeding or looking for food.