
The long feathers on the head are a single solid color in males (often black, white, red or yellow, but sometimes other colors) and a more complex pattern of more earthy colors in females. Both sexes have variable patterns of spots and thinner fur-like plumage on the neck, shoulders and other parts of the body.
The picture on the right shows a compact body shape more typical of advanced theropods like allosaurus, tyrannosaurus and velociraptor than the long body and human-like pinched waist of the kobold. When I made this drawing we were working on making some of the most humanoid Squawk species more dinosaur-like. (This was shortly before the discovery of the relatively long-bodied arboreal feathered theropod Microraptor.)