Sandy

Has been, always will be the face of her species as I develop it, whatever funky form it takes. There will be many tabs to the side sort of archiving how it's changed. Originally made as Hurricane Sandy passed through my home town.

Has a feather condition or maybe a scar or mites or something on the back of her neck, Her head feathers grow a little long too, giving her a crest-like look, similar to Hamerkop!

Leader and uniter of corvids in whatever geographic area I decide she lives in. Probably deals mostly with crows and ravens, but may also deal with jays and magpies depending on how close to whichever coast I go.

Enormous for a crow but still dwarfed by ravens.

Her mate also happens to be huge and ravens are just in general 3x the size of crows. Oops. I don't try to make these size differences but their dynamic and political roles already so linked to being these different species? Crows and ravens tend to hate each other, so a powerful figure for each species leading their kinds through tough times is a big deal and plot point for this world with almost no other plot. Plus, cravens have existed, so why can't gay craven pairs exist?

Bisexual, most of the creatures in this world are.

Sandy was the first corvid to notice the newly colliding ranges of the remaining corvid species of western North America (due to climate change) and want to bring each of those ranges and unite corvids as a society. Maybe others noticed but they didn't want to something quite as crazy with that, but Sandy saw possible greatness (power for herself) in it (and acceptance for inter-species couples). We'll see where that all goes though.

Sandy has to fight a lot for Crows to stop harassing ravens, and for ravens to stop trying to intimidate/eat crows. Her work doesn't spread massively, but she does find herself with a small group of crows and ravens that cooperate, and that group helps spread more cooperation.

Affected species: Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Black-billed Magpie, Yellow-billed Magpie (most are hybrids with black bills), California Scrub Jay, Green Jay, Steller's Jay (very rare), Canada Jay (on the brink of extinction), Clark's Nutcraker (also near extinction).