Gouldian Finch
Savanna's living rainbow finch
Mating Social Behaviors
Socially Monogamous
Pairs form social bonds and share parental duties, though extra-pair mating may occur
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Socially Monogamous Animals
House Finch
The feeder finch with a color twist
Pileated Woodpecker
Big crest. Bigger excavations.
Purple Finch
Raspberry songster of the pines
Pigeon
Crop-milk champions of the skies
Mourning Dove
The soft coo of North American backyards
Whooping Crane
White wings, wild wetlands, loud whoops
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
Gray Fox
The canid that climbs like a cat
Tibetan Fox
Square-faced hunter of the high plateau
Striped Hyena
Nature's night-shift carrion recycler
Grasshopper Mouse
A mouse that hunts like a wolf
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
Chickadee
Small bird, big personality
Common Raven
Wedge tail. Deep croak. Big brain.
Carolina Parakeet
The lost parrot of the American East
Myna Bird
Bold, brainy, and brilliantly vocal
Ivory-billed woodpecker
The legendary "ghost bird" of swamps