Black

Gooty Sapphire Tarantula

Metallic blue-built for the treetops

Mexican Fireleg Tarantula

Fire-legged, burrow-built, Mexico-made

Orchard Oriole

Smallest oriole, biggest spring song

Eider

Downy divers of the far north

Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher

A spark of orange in deep shade

King Eider

Crown of the Arctic pack ice

Kea

The clever parrot of the snowline

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Rough-Legged Hawk (Rough-Legged Buzzard)

The feather-legged hover-hunter

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver

Dickcissel

Prairie singer, South America traveler

Canvasback

Built for deep dives, born to roam

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

Tundra Swan

Whistling wings, tundra to tidewater

Anhinga

Spears fish, then sun-dries in style