Matutinal

Oxpecker

Tick riders of the African savanna

Modern Game Chicken

Upright elegance on long legs

Great Kiskadee

Hear it before you see it: Kiskadee!

Eurasian Collared Dove

The collar-marked urban colonizer

Kagu

Crest up. Wings out. Kagu!

Onagadori Chicken

The rooster with the never-ending tail

Egyptian Tortoise

Small shell, big desert survivor

Knight Anole

Cuba's bold, tree-top "knight" lizard

Eastern Box Turtle

Nature's little hinged "lockbox"

Eastern Meadowlark

The flute-voice of open fields

Acadian Flycatcher

Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dickcissel

Prairie singer, South America traveler

Veery

Spiral song, epic migration.

Blackburnian Warbler

Look up for the fire-throat

Northern Bobwhite

Hear the whistle, save the fields.

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

The prairie bird with scissors for a tail

Anhinga

Spears fish, then sun-dries in style

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox

Painted Bunting

Nature's living rainbow in the thickets

MacGillivray's Warbler

The Spectacled Singer of the Thickets

Kentucky Warbler

Masked jewel of the forest floor

Mourning Warbler

Hooded shadow of the thickets

Ackie Monitor

Small goanna, spiny-tail swagger.