Trollgardic Dreadgull Wyvern

The Trollgardic Dreadgull Wyvern, commonly known simply as "Dreadgulls" or "Thursvælgur" (Troll Swallower) in Urmål, are creatures distantly related to the Vastallosi Wyvern. A Dreadgull wyvern is an unusually intelligent beast, which possesses a fierce hunger for meat, dead or alive. Dreadgull wyvern’s reputation for ferocity and aggression makes it one of the most feared carnivores of the coast and skies in Trollgard.

Anatomy
An adult dreadgull was about 15 ft (4.6 meters) long, with a wingspan of 25 feet. The average dreadgull weighed about 500 pounds

Dietary Needs and Habits
Dreadgulls are opportunistic feeders, apex predators, and are very curious. They will investigate any small organism they encounter and will readily eat almost anything that they can swallow. they are highly predatory and frequently hunt and kill any prey smaller than themselves, behaving much like a raptor. Lacking the razor-sharp talons and curved, serrated teeth of other wyverns, the Dreadgull Wyvern relies on aggression, physical strength, a tearing beak and endurance when hunting.

Most foods are swallowed whole, including most fish and even other gulls. When foods are too large to be swallowed at once, they will sometimes be shaken in the bill until they fall apart into pieces. When capturing Tortoses or other hard-surfaced foods such as Vastallos Murder Crabs, eggs or armored humanoids, they will fly into the air with it and drop it on rocks or hard earth to crack it open. Unlike most other wyverns, Dreadgull Wyverns will readily consume carrion aand have developed the ability to consume infected, poisoned or rotting meat safely. They are skilled kleptoparasites who will readily pirate fish and other prey captured by other birds and dominate over other gulls when they encounter them.

Unlike most other wyverns Dreadgull Wyverns are carrion eaters and have developed the ability to consume infected, poisoned or rotting meat safely.However, they would hunt on live prey if other sources of food were sparce. Sea gulls ate a wide variety of food including carrion, fish, snails, worms, and even some vegetables like turnips, though their most preferred food was fish.