Nguni Cattle
Built for the rangeland, born in color
Animal Habitats
Marsh
Wetlands dominated by grasses and reeds, vital for waterfowl and wading birds
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Marsh Animals
English Longhorn Cattle
Forward horns, old Britain's beef
Lineback Cattle
The stripe that stands out.
Tasmanian Tiger Snake
Banded, black, and built for wetlands
Eider
Downy divers of the far north
Emperor Goose
White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge
Purple Gallinule
The lily-pad walker of the wetlands
Nightjar
Built for twilight insect-hunting
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Tawny flocks, whistled calls
Upland Sandpiper
Fencepost singer of the prairie
Rough-Legged Hawk
The feather-legged hover-hunter
Dromornis stirtoni
Australia's Miocene mega-bird
Shantungosaurus
Shandong's colossal duck-bill grazer
Amphicoelias Fragillimus
The lost giant of the Morrison
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
Veery
Spiral song, epic migration.
Gadwall
The "quiet" duck with a bright wing flash
Common Goldeneye
Hear the whistler, spot the gold eye
Tundra Swan
Whistling wings, tundra to tidewater
Anhinga
Spears fish, then sun-dries in style