Editing Weird Wonderlings (section)

==Bangbird==
The bangird is a type of large insect that externally resembles a small bird until you get close enough to see that this is actually due to mock-colorations. There are a number of varieties that have evolved to mimic the local birdlife of the region. 

The bangird will primarily eat other smaller insects and dig around in the dirt to consume worms. It tends to pose no serious threat and when harassed will fly away while emitting a noxious stench.

The bangird has a unique property in that when their external carapace is penetrated on the underside of the abdomen, they emit begin to fizz for five seconds and then explode with the force of a hand grenade. This property is also a secondary method of reproduction, which is coincidentally potentially fatal to nearby creatures as the eggs of the bangbird are shelled in a substance equivalently as hard as steel.

Bangbirds have found a use among certain militaries who clip off their wings and legs and use them as living grenades. A few enterprising researchers have been attempting to breed them to seek out targets and then penetrate themselves on purpose, with a fairly low success rate and a high rate of detonated researchers. 

Wizards who have discovered the secrets of controlling insectoid minds will make use of them as remote bombs for the purpose of untraceable assassinations.