Red-Headed Vulture
Red crown of the carrion cleaners
Pair Bond Durations
Long-Term
Bonds lasting multiple breeding seasons but not necessarily for life
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Long-Term Animals
Owl
Silent wings, sharp minds of night
Ural owl
Long tail, deep woods, silent strike
Eurasian Wolf
Wild Europe's original pack hunter
Potoo
The night's perfect branch impersonators
Sparrowhawk
Built for the blitz through the woods
Pesquet's Parrot (Dracula Parrot)
New Guinea's Fig-Eating Dracula Parrot
Hawaiian Goose (Nene)
The lava-walking goose of Hawaiʻi
House Sparrow (English Sparrow)
The sparrow that followed humanity
Egyptian Goose
Africa's bold, loud, territorial grazer
Griffon Vulture
Nature's high-altitude clean-up crew
Eurasian Jay
Oak Forest Planter with a Blue Flash
Goshawk
White-browed shadow of the woods
Black-Capped Chickadee
Big attitude in a tiny winter bird
Peppermint Angelfish
Peppermint stripes from the twilight reef
Wrought Iron Butterflyfish
Nature's living wrought-iron filigree
Masked Angelfish
Hawaii's twilight-zone masked angel
Ring-billed Gull
Spot the black ring, know the gull
Dire Wolf
The Pleistocene's powerhouse wolf
Labout's Fairy Wrasse
Small fish, big reef fireworks
Pelagornithidae
Giants of the wind, teeth of bone
Tufted Titmouse
Crested whistler of eastern woods
Hawk
Built to see, swoop, and soar
Giant Beaver
Ice Age beaver, supersized.