In September of 2022 year I participated in the Chirptember bird drawing challenge. Generally decided to draw not just regular birds, but some bird inspired robots from my "Phase shift" story.
So, the first theme, a desert bird.
I've used the Pallas' sandgrouse as the inspiration for this design (since childhood I was impressed a lot with the fact that sandgrouse can take water with their own feathers from some puddle and transport it for a quite long distance), mixed the bird with the Be-200 airplane conception and got a machine you can use in transportation and fire fighting activity

Illustration, MRA "Sandgrouse", "Phase shift" story © me, Kehhalar