Solitary

Purple Gallinule

The lily-pad walker of the wetlands

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunners

Desert cuckoos built for the fast lane

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

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Supersaurus

Jurassic length, Morrison legend

Puertasaurus

Patagonia's giant, known from fragments

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Albertonectes

Alberta's long-necked sea swimmer

Ceratopsian

Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!

Veery

Spiral song, epic migration.

Blackburnian Warbler

Look up for the fire-throat

Western Kingbird

Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line

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

Anhinga

Spears fish, then sun-dries in style

Hammond's flycatcher

Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox