Diurnal

Emperor Goose

White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge

King Eider

Crown of the Arctic pack ice

Kea

The clever parrot of the snowline

Purple Gallinule

The lily-pad walker of the wetlands

Roadrunners

Desert cuckoos built for the fast lane

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Upland Sandpiper

Fencepost singer of the prairie

Rough-Legged Hawk

The feather-legged hover-hunter

Ocellated Turkey

The rainforest turkey with jeweled eyes

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Puertasaurus

Patagonia's giant, known from fragments

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Albertonectes

Alberta's long-necked sea swimmer

Ceratopsian

Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver

Dickcissel

Prairie singer, South America traveler

Veery

Spiral song, epic migration.

Blackburnian Warbler

Look up for the fire-throat

Western Kingbird

Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line

Northern Bobwhite

Hear the whistle, save the fields.

Common Goldeneye

Hear the whistler, spot the gold eye