Tree Tapper

Tree tapper is a species of non-avian Epidexipteryx-like Troodont dinosaur native to North American forests, swamps, and savannas, but can also flourish extremely well into a life in a city, town, and even suburbs. They are small and pigeon-sized, allowing them to require less food than (most) larger modern non-avian Troodonts that live in cities. Males and females have scaly fingers, toes, and tips of their snouts, while both males and females have brown feathers covering their bodies, the male's wing feathers are both brown and orange, while their ornamental tail feathers, which are unlike in rectrices (tail feathers) found on advanced birds (pigeons, parrots, waterfowls, gamebirds, toucans, hornbills, trogons, seabirds, songbirds, etc), the vanes are not branched into individual filaments but made up of a single ribbon-like sheet, much like the formerly extinct Scansoriopterygids such as the similar-sized Epidexipteryx, rhe male's twil feathers are red in color, for attracting mates and/or scaring off other male rivals. The females, however, are completely brown in color, even their tail feathers. They are mostly insectivorous, feeding mainly on insects, spiders, scorpions, worms, and even pillbugs, but can also feed on carrion to supplement their diets. They can dig into trees with their unusually long and clawed middle fingers, using them to tap onto trees to get into the grubs inside of the trees, hence their names. They are currently flourishing and, despite competition from native woodpeckers/squirrels, formerly extinct species, and formerly fictional species, tree tappers are flourishing and their population trends are increasing.