Ichthyornis

Collector

Set the Ichthyornis to "Hunt and Retrieve" and tell it to attack a fish. It will return with a dead fish that can be harvested for and a chance of . Larger fish means more meat. Similarly, on flyer-carry-enabled servers, the Ichthyornis can target s, s, , and with "hunt and retrieve", the Ichthyornis will then grab the target and begin attacking it while it's in its beak. If the Ichthyornis kills a target in this manner, it will imbue the corpse with the buff, which can then be…

Taming Assistant

Ichthyornis will potentially get a lot of both prime meats for you in order to use it on cooking or taming, this makes it specially good in early game due to the lack of capacity to kill bigger creatures that drops high quality meat. Also the small fishes corpses that the Ichthyornis gets gives more taming progression to the and than the normal fish corpses.

Level up: Health and Speed

Flying Pegomastax

if set to Hunt it will steal similar to regular pickpoket on and Hunt and retrieve will work like quick pickpoket. Unlike the rather dangerous Pego, the Itchy will be wery weak if set to "no hunt".

Level up: Health and Speed

Backpack

Only half their weight is put on your shoulder, meaning you can carry extra weight.

Level up: Weight

Pet

the Ichthyornis can make a good pet due to the fact that it is a shoulder mount, but the pain of having to get it may be too much.