Roachcutter

The roachcutter is a small purple bird with a thick beak and eyes on short turrets. It is descended from the tube-nosed birds that inhabited Antarctica in the 21st century, and has adapted to live in the Antarctic forest 100 million years in the future. Due to its elegant wing design, the roachcutter is the fastest and one of the most maneuverable birds living in the Antarctic forests. Like modern swifts and other aerial insect eaters, the roachcutter has virtually no method of defense other than its speed, so it is still sometimes caught and killed by the giant predatory wasp, the falconfly.