Cockatrice

Cockatrices are bird-like creatures known for their petrifying bite.

Appearance
Standing about the size of a dog, cockatrices blend characteristics of a bird, lizard, and bat, resembling a large chicken with scaly skin and bat-like wings.

Characteristics
Cockatrices are omnivores that eat berries, nuts, and flowers, and small animals like bugs, mice, and frogs. They are easily frenzied when threatened, tending to fly in the face of their perceived threat to peck with their petrifying beak.

Actions

 * Bite: The cockatrice deals minor piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or become restrained as it begins to magically petrify. At the end of its next turn it repeats the save, ending the effect on a success, or becoming petrified for 24 hours on a failure.

Known cockatrices
Bells Hells encountered a flock of cockatrices while flying over the Hellcatch Valley on the Silver Sun skyship. The cockatrices harried the ship as they were fleeing from a chimera. A few of the party members were bitten, but none were petrified.

Trivia
Matt briefly referred to the cockatrices as basilisks, another creature capable of petrifying their enemies, before later correcting himself. Both creatures have similar mythological origins, but are considered different in Dungeons & Dragons.