Valley

Chestnut-Sided Warbler

Chestnut flanks, shrubland singer

Great Potoo Bird

The bird that becomes a branch

African Jacana

The lily-pad dad of Africa

Sedge Warbler

The chatterbox of the reedbeds

Yellowthroat

Masked singer of cattails and thickets

Cactus Wren

Built for heat, armed with thorns

Grebe

Lobed-toe divers with dance moves

Hairy Woodpecker

Bigger bill, louder drill!

Hepatic Tanager (Red Tanager)

Brick-red canopy hunter-cardinal, not tanager

Skua

Pirates of the polar seas

Prairie Chicken

Booming herald of the tallgrass prairie

Black and White Warbler

The warbler that climbs like a nuthatch

Wryneck

The woodpecker that plays snake

Summer Tanager

The all-red wasp-eating songbird

Merganser

Sawbills built for the chase

Magnolia Warbler

Tail-flash traveler of the boreal woods

African Fish Eagle

The yodeling monarch of African waters

Golden-Crowned Kinglet

A crown of fire in the firs

Northern Parula

The moss-nesting spark of spring

Scarlet Tanager

Scarlet flash of the forest canopy

Western Tanager

Flame-headed traveler of the pines

Stonechats

Perch, pounce, and chatter

Barosaurus

Long-neck legend of the Morrison

Cinnamon Bear

Cinnamon coat, black-bear heart