Balaur bondoc is a bird

[Patrx]

Indeed! I like to think we've moved past that now, into an era of fuzzy-faced maniraptorans.

[Dinoguy2]

Aah yes, the good ol' wet pheasant look! I agree wholeheartedly, I simply can't imagine any reasoning behind that appearance.

Yeah, I guess there wasn't much reasoning behind it at all actually! GSP invented that look before feathered dinosaurs were known, so despite how close they were to Archaeopteryx, he seems to have given them what we'd now consider compsognathid-grade plumage. At least it was better than everybody else, who seem to have thought pennaceous feathered evolved entirely in the league between deinonychosaurs and Archaeopteryx...!

[Takama]

Now this has got me wondering.   Could Balaur ride on the backs of Magyarosaurus like the Rahonavus in Dinotasia?  Are were they too Ground oriented?

[DinoLord]

Balaur was over twice the length of Rahonavis, so probably not.