Squi-Flyer

Terra Squid are a very diverse clade. Ranging from the size of a shrew to larger than an Elephant and filling a variety of diets and body plans. 

And now in the forests of the west and southern coast, the size of a large songbird one can find the first flying Terra Squid. 

The Squi-Flyer a descendant of the gliding Tree Racer is certainly not the most elegant flyer. 

Most of the stroke is generated from the two bones that make up the “humorous” of the first two pairs of walking limbs and it requires a larger amount of energy to propel themselves upward than extinct flyers or their Icthopteran contemporaries. 

(Bones of the Squi-Flyer's wing)

The ray-finned fish have a lighter skeleton since their bones are spongy and cartilaginous in the center. Well not as light as Archosaurs Blish of equivalent size are much lighter than The Squi-Flyer. 

Blish also have a more efficient respiratory system and sweat through the scales on their legs to stay flying longer. 

Indeed raptorial Blish will readily eat Squi-Flyers so the Necksnare mostly comes out at night to hunt flying insects and small vertebrates on the wing. 

To lighten themselves they’ve lost the claws around their face by snapping prey up between the serrations of their beak and then crushing it in their radula teeth. 

This is one area they have an advantage over Blish being able to process food on the wing whereas Blish that feed on large prey have to land to swallow it whole.