Umbragrus huxleyi

So the shadow crane returns.

Knucker, Wyvern, European Lung or Lindwurm, there are many different names for a species which was once the most common dragon of Europe.
Umbragrus is a small relative of Cunfuciosaurus, the largest living draconiform, and like his Asian cousin it prefers habitats near water. Swamps, floodplains and low streams are their preferred hunting grounds and they also nest here. Especially riparian forests were common places for this species to pile up mud, branches and reed and lay one or two eggs. 
After the last Ice age Umbragrus flourished in Europe, the melting waters created many floodplains which were ideal for the animals. And while large wyvernids like Dsangisaurus suffered from the lose of large open plains these smaller confuciosaurids had no problem with the new large forests.
The decline of Umbragrus began with the rise of man. While both species at first just ignored each other, the increasing population of Homo sapiens and the way they shaped the land caused problems, mainly on the side of the dragons. Early, ancient cultures sometimes lived side by side to these dragons, even honored them in their religions. The germanic tribes, for example are well known for their sacrifice places at the edges of swamps.
The situation became increasingly difficult with the arrival of Christianity and another spark on human population... but that's enough history for today.

Umbragrus is the smallest member of the family,with up to 2,4 m in length and a wingspan of roughly 3,7 m.
Surprisingly the rather robust wings carried some specimens over half the continent every year. How isotop analysis showed some northern populations migrated during the winter in warmer, or at least more productive regions (don't judge a bird by their wings, I learned that from quails). Interestingly a population in South Endland remained in their habitat the whole year around (maybe because of knuckerholes)
The skull is lightweight and still partly mesokinetic, the para-nasal fenestra ist rather small and the premaxilla is raised so that the teeth have slightly forward, with way they can easier pierce the skin of a potential prey. 
Most prey consists of fish, adults catch up to 40 cm long carps, larger prey is killed and brought to the shore to shake it into pieces, but if possible most food is swallowed whole.
Besides fish Umbragrus also hunts water fowl (30% of kills in the Danube delta during the spring and early summer are young birds) and more rarely mammals like rats, musk rats and mice. Young Umbragrus, which begin to hunt just after hatching, also take down many invertebrates.

So. I would like to write more but it is late, I'm tired and the next dragon is already half way finished.
I hope you appreciate the many new details, information, redesign and updates I did here. You might already see how much this beast is grown in my mind when you compare
it to my first version, that very short description makes me digest backward these days: www.deviantart.com/art/Umbragr…