Flock

Oxpecker

Tick riders of the African savanna

Finch

Built to crack seeds, born to sing

Modern Game Chicken

Upright elegance on long legs

Nuthatch

Head-first bark detectives

Eurasian Collared Dove

The collar-marked urban colonizer

Emerald Toucanet

Green jewel of the cloud forest

Onagadori Chicken

The rooster with the never-ending tail

Rhea

South America's sprinting ratites

Eastern Meadowlark

The flute-voice of open fields

Orchard Oriole

Smallest oriole, biggest spring song

Eider

Downy divers of the far north

Emperor Goose

White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge

King Eider

Crown of the Arctic pack ice

Kea

The clever parrot of the snowline

Purple Gallinule

The lily-pad walker of the wetlands

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Upland Sandpiper

Fencepost singer of the prairie

Ocellated Turkey

The rainforest turkey with jeweled eyes

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver