These small winged creatures can glide expertly on the air currents, even travelling through clouds. They can bank deliberately to turn, never flapping their triangular wings. To descend, these strange creatures wheel in increasingly tight spirals until they disappear behind some peak. The aerial ballet they do is very unique. There are numerous varieties of springwing, including the lesser mountain springwings, which have striped wings, are two meters long, and are undisputable masters of their habitat. Another species is the greater mountain springwing, which is half again as large as their lesser cousin and sports a cranial crest, which in some specimens curves nearly to the spine. In many instances this massive crest is used in mid flight dominance displays, often leading to seriously torn wings - a wound that is nearly always fatal, as it results in a crash on the rocks below.