The steampunk... chicken?

This was from my Fantomorphia book, which has steampunk-style illustrations by Kerby Rosanes. It seems to be half chicken, half snake?

At the outset, I had told myself that, with the predominance of metallic machinery parts -- and I had already decided that the gears and bits and bobs would be a gold/brass color -- the chicken had to be in a color other than gold/brass to stand out.

So this was the result. It took me days to finish this intricate drawing, as I worked on making the metal look realistic.