Chocobo

Chocobos are large and (generally) flightless birds native to several worlds throughout the Web of Worlds. With horses, they are one of the most common domesticated animals, used primarily as riding and war beasts. The Esper and Crystal dimensions are known for their profusion of chocobos of various breeds. Chocobos are also found in the Merge and Kuvalla dimensions, and are also native to the world of Alter-Mana in the Alter Dimension. Grimfowl, a related species, are found in the Dragon Dimension, as well as on the world of Alter-Dragon in Alter.

Chocobos have a wide variety of plumage, ranging from yellow (usually, the most common) to white to black to numerous other colors.

Common Chocobo (Yellow)

The most common breed, the Yellow Chocobo is employed throughout the Web as a mount and beast of burden.

Flying Chocobo (Black)

These Chocobos actually have plumage that ranges from true black to blue-black or deep violet. Most breeds of these birds have actually lost the ability to fly, and serve a role much like Common Chocobos, but a pure flying strain is preserved in northern Toroia and in the Merge Dimension.

White Chocobo

This bird is often favored by spellcasters, for their cud has a rejuvenative property that restores a sorcerer's strength (much like an essence of ether would). Many wizards quickly overcome the distaste of collecting and then consuming this regurgitated elixir, and come to appreciate the value of owning such a precious mount.

Wild Chocobos

A number of other breeds, with colors ranging from Blue to Green and even Red, dwell untamed in various settings and locales, even in the modern Web. They are often sought by breeders and enthusiasts, both for the color of their plumage and sometimes for their innate ability to cross over specialized terrain.

Grimfowl

This fierce bird, related to the Chocobo, is found in both Dragon and Alter-Dragon. Grimfowls have pointed, rather than hooked beaks, and their plumage is rarely uniform (being often a mix of red, purple and yellow feathers). The bird also possesses a single horn jutting off its head, and was known to fight before fleeing when the flock was set upon by predators. They make excellent, if sometimes ill-tempered and difficult to control, war mounts. In Scande they were sometimes used as mounts in place of horses (since, in ancient Dragon, horses were sometimes the only available source of unpoisonous meat -- something that cannot be said about the Grimfowl).