Bird aliens?

Um...
Well, I was- am- in a holy-crap-dinosaurs phase because of the upcoming Jurassic World, and um
Dinosuars are more avian than reptillian
And I was planning on having both reptillian-y peoples and rarer [more politically prominent] feathered races (kind of like an American versus EveryoneElse thing XP, with a basis of inferior:superior, 100:1), with wings genetically activated (gene's there, just not "on") on the most important or the wealthy that want to show off.

I mean
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