Flying

Mourning Dove

The soft coo of North American backyards

Whooping Crane

White wings, wild wetlands, loud whoops

Desert Locust

When rains fall, deserts can swarm.

Honduran White Bat

The bat that sleeps in a leaf tent

Cicada

Years belowground, weeks in the spotlight

Locust

Small hoppers, huge impact

Fruit Bat

Plant the forest-one flight at a time

Eastern Bluebird

A splash of sky in open fields

Barred Owl

Hear the forest's "who-cooks-for-you"

Scarlet Macaw

Scarlet skies, rainforest voice.

Shoebill Stork

The swamp's silent shoe-billed hunter

Mountain Bluebird

Sky-blue sentinel of the open West

Horsefly

Fast flyers with a fierce bite

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Rose flash of the treetops

Ferruginous Hawk

Royal hawk of the wide-open West

Tree swallow

Sky-sleek hunter of wetland air

Black Wasp

Katydid hunter, flower visitor

No See Ums

Tiny fly, mighty bite.

Chickadee

Small bird, big personality

Little Brown Bat

Small bat, big insect control

Tsetse Fly

The fly that gives birth, not eggs

Common Raven

Wedge tail. Deep croak. Big brain.

Carolina Parakeet

The lost parrot of the American East

Myna Bird

Bold, brainy, and brilliantly vocal