Family Group

Purple Gallinule

The lily-pad walker of the wetlands

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunners

Desert cuckoos built for the fast lane

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Upland Sandpiper

Fencepost singer of the prairie

Rough-Legged Hawk

The feather-legged hover-hunter

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Ceratopsian

Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver

Canvasback

Built for deep dives, born to roam

Veery

Spiral song, epic migration.

Blackburnian Warbler

Look up for the fire-throat

Gadwall

The "quiet" duck with a bright wing flash

Western Kingbird

Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line

Northern Bobwhite

Hear the whistle, save the fields.

Common Goldeneye

Hear the whistler, spot the gold eye

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

The prairie bird with scissors for a tail

Tundra Swan

Whistling wings, tundra to tidewater

Snow Goose

Two morphs, one Arctic traveler

Hammond's flycatcher

Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox