European Goldfinch
Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.
Conservation Threats
Agricultural Expansion
Conversion of natural habitats to farmland and ranching operations
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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
Theropod
From raptors to robins: all theropod
Lesser Scaup
Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver
Dickcissel
Prairie singer, South America traveler
Canvasback
Built for deep dives, born to roam
Veery
Spiral song, epic migration.
Blackburnian Warbler
Look up for the fire-throat
Gadwall
The "quiet" duck with a bright wing flash
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
Snow Goose
Two morphs, one Arctic traveler
Hammond's flycatcher
Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid
Loggerhead Shrike
Songbird with a raptor's toolbox
Ruddy Duck
Small duck, big tail attitude
Wood Duck
The tree-nesting duck with a leap
Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
The whistling "tree duck" with style
Northern Pintail
Pointed tail, planet-spanning migrant
Painted Bunting
Nature's living rainbow in the thickets
Least Flycatcher
Hear "che-bek," find the flycatcher.