Kowari
Black-banded tail, desert hunter
Pair Bond Durations
Seasonal
Pairs form for a single breeding season and may find new partners next year
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Seasonal Animals
Knight Anole
Cuba's bold, tree-top "knight" lizard
Eastern Meadowlark
The flute-voice of open fields
Eastern Tiger Snake
Wetland hunter with a tiger's bite
Nguni Cattle
Built for the rangeland, born in color
California Tarantula
Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California
Orchard Oriole
Smallest oriole, biggest spring song
Acadian Flycatcher
Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade
Eider
Downy divers of the far north
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher
A spark of orange in deep shade
King Eider
Crown of the Arctic pack ice
Purple Gallinule
The lily-pad walker of the wetlands
Nightjar
Built for twilight insect-hunting
European Goldfinch
Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.
Upland Sandpiper
Fencepost singer of the prairie
Rough-Legged Hawk
The feather-legged hover-hunter
Ocellated Turkey
The rainforest turkey with jeweled eyes
Epicyon haydeni
Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid
Dromornis stirtoni
Australia's Miocene mega-bird
Supersaurus
Jurassic length, Morrison legend
Shantungosaurus
Shandong's colossal duck-bill grazer
Puertasaurus
Patagonia's giant, known from fragments
Amphicoelias Fragillimus
The lost giant of the Morrison
Arambourgiania
A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck