Featherfolk

The only race capable of sustained flight, featherfolk are a true wonder to behold. Their sleek, aerodynamic feathered bodies glide through the air like water, the envy of surface dwellers below. Similar to aarakocra, featherfolk display a few key differences:

• Though more capable in the air than any other race, featherfolk are not capable of indefinite flight. A bipedal form has rendered them slightly too heavy to stay in the air without great effort. However, an innate connection to the element of wind grants featherfolk the ability to create short-lived updrafts, launching them high into the sky. From these updrafts, featherfolk can glide very long distances.
• Featherfolk have adapted to life at sea, and most display the features of seabirds, like gulls and egrets.
• Featherfolk are related to the stumpy, flightless bortu. Neither they nor the bortu know how this is the case or from where their differences arise.

Motivations

Featherfolk tend to be selfless, assisting others and simply enjoying life's many small gifts. Even so, the thrill of adventure into the unknown draws featherfolk just as it does all others, and some featherfolk even take to criminal life, using their unique flight to escape seemingly hopeless situations.

Playing a Featherfolk

Functionally, featherfolk are identical to aarakocra in D&D Beyond. Use those stats.
Featherfolk have no subraces.