Tundra Swan
Whistling wings, tundra to tidewater
Animal Habitats
Coastal
Shoreline areas where land meets sea, including dunes and coastal scrub
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Coastal Animals
Anhinga
Spears fish, then sun-dries in style
Snow Goose
Two morphs, one Arctic traveler
Loggerhead Shrike
Songbird with a raptor's toolbox
Ruddy Duck
Small duck, big tail attitude
Wood Duck
The tree-nesting duck with a leap
Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
The whistling "tree duck" with style
Northern Pintail
Pointed tail, planet-spanning migrant
Painted Bunting
Nature's living rainbow in the thickets
Diprotodon
Pleistocene giant of Australia
Thylacoleo carnifex
Australia's "lion" with a marsupial bite
Gorgosaurus
Laramidia's long-legged tyrant
Magyarosaurus
A little titanosaur from an island world
Shastasaurus
Triassic titan of the open sea
Icadyptes
Eocene giant of Peru's seas
Elephant Bird
Madagascar's lost giants of the egg
Common Yellowthroat
Masked singer of the marsh edge
Asian Water Monitor
The canal-cruising giant of Asia
Kermode Bear (Spirit Bear)
Not polar-coastal spirit of the rainforest
Black Dragon Lizard
All the beardie charm-dressed in black.
Lace Monitor
Lace-patterned climber of Australia's east
Mole Crab (Sand Flea)
Burrow fast. Filter the surf.
Hairy Frogfish
Hairy master of disguise-hook, lure, gulp
Oilfish
Deep-water predator with a waxy secret