Urusai

Native to Tatooine, the urusai is a green-and-blue featherless bird who feasts upon carrion (often to the point of being too engorged to take flight). They are essential to the desert ecosystem, as their diet prevents decaying corpses from spreading lethal diseases - their bare skin undermines the collection of bacteria. With their delicate olfactory senses, urusais ride the rising thermals of the blue Tatooine sky, nesting under eaves and on cliff outcroppings.

Females have two wings, while males have four - the larger rear wings are used for flying, while the smaller front ones are strictly for mating displays. Balancing on their strong tails, they woo prospective mates, who lay two to three eggs per brood. In a harsh microcosom of Tatooine's brutality, the first young to hatch destroys the remaining eggs - unless two have hatched simultaneously, whereupon the chicks will duel until one falls to the ground.

With a wingspan of 2 meters, a hefty weight of 43 kilograms, and a lifespan of up to fifty years, the urusai is an imposing avian species.