Purple Gallinule
The lily-pad walker of the wetlands
Conservation Threats
Habitat Loss
Destruction or degradation of natural environments through development, deforestation, or land conversion
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Habitat Loss Animals
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
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.
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