Flying

Elegant Tern

Orange bill, black crest, perfect dive

Owl

Silent wings, sharp minds of night

Ural owl

Long tail, deep woods, silent strike

Assassin Bug

Silent hunters with a chemical edge

Insect

Six legs, endless strategies.

Ortolan Bunting

Long-haul bunting of open fields

European Bee-Eater

Colorful aerial hunter of summer skies

Potoo

The night's perfect branch impersonators

Ruddy Turnstone

Flip a stone, cross an ocean.

Sparrowhawk

Built for the blitz through the woods

Treecreeper

Spiral climbers of the bark world

Great Egret

Big white hunter of the wetlands

Pesquet's Parrot (Dracula Parrot)

New Guinea's Fig-Eating Dracula Parrot

Blue Tit

Blue crown, bold mind, busy feet

Dunnock

Hedgerow accentor, not a sparrow

Kestrel

Windhover hunters of open country

Hawaiian Goose (Nene)

The lava-walking goose of Hawaiʻi

House Sparrow (English Sparrow)

The sparrow that followed humanity

Mexican Eagle (Northern crested caracara)

Golden power on open skies

Weaver Birds

Nature's master basket-weavers

Baya

Hanging-nest genius of the monsoon

Egyptian Goose

Africa's bold, loud, territorial grazer

Orange-Crowned Warbler

The warbler with the hidden crown

Cinereous Vulture

Big, black, and built to clean