Hilly

Kea

The clever parrot of the snowline

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

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

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Ceratopsian

Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!

Dickcissel

Prairie singer, South America traveler

Veery

Spiral song, epic migration.

Blackburnian Warbler

Look up for the fire-throat

Western Kingbird

Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line

Northern Bobwhite

Hear the whistle, save the fields.

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

The prairie bird with scissors for a tail

Hammond's flycatcher

Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox

Wood Duck

The tree-nesting duck with a leap

Painted Bunting

Nature's living rainbow in the thickets

Least Flycatcher

Hear "che-bek," find the flycatcher.

Panthera atrox (American Lion)

North America's Ice Age lion

Thylacoleo carnifex

Australia's "lion" with a marsupial bite