Plains

Green Bottle Blue Tarantula

Desert jewel, webbing machine

Mexican Fireleg Tarantula

Fire-legged, burrow-built, Mexico-made

Orchard Oriole

Smallest oriole, biggest spring song

Acadian Flycatcher

Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade

Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher

A spark of orange in deep shade

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

The woodland sprinter with a long tail

Emperor Goose

White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge

King Eider

Crown of the Arctic pack ice

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

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

Shantungosaurus

Shandong's colossal duck-bill grazer

Puertasaurus

Patagonia's giant, known from fragments

Amphicoelias Fragillimus

The lost giant of the Morrison

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck