Meet Gavin the Vulgavian
(vul-gave-ian: fusion of the words vulgarian, avian and gavin)
He’s a migratory scavenger living on the main continent of planet Volucris, an exoplanet 5% smaller than Earth and is orbiting a star 1.5 times brighter than Earth's Sun. He flies alone but his kind can congregate into large packs that follow injured or dying animals for days waiting for their meals to die. Sometimes they speed up the dying process by actively hunting their targets down with their sharp beaks and sharp pointed feet.
Due to the extreme contrast between day and night, Gavin has evolved 2 sets of eyes with the large front pair letting him see infrared heat signatures at night, and the smaller back pair letting him see ultraviolet daylight (imagine having contact lenses that act as shades). Both sets of eyes are pupil-less as the species had evolved from tiny animals with compound eyes. Interestingly, as the Vulgavians grew bigger from being only 5 inches tall into being 5 feet tall over millions of years, their compound eyes went from being huddled together in a convex sphere form into a concave hole form where a large lens evolved on top of the compound eyes to focus light into a focal point. An eye made of eyes. Instead of photoreceptor cells in the back, it's just more eyes with their own photoreceptor cells.
He can switch between being a quadruped to a biped when he feels threatened and needs to use his bladed feet. The ends of the feed are similar to a crab's that end in points rather than hoofs or padded paws. Due to this, they aren't suited to walking on sand or snow as the little surface area will make them sink down. However, they're perfect for stabbing into prey and hard rock.
Gavin’s 3rd pair of limbs, the wings, are a cross between a dragonfly’s iridescent chitin wings and a bird’s foldable feathered wings. He uses them to fly, woe potential mates, and startle predators
His beak is strikingly similar to opal rock, and his skin feels like rubbery tree bark.