Northern Cardinal
Red crest, bold song, backyard royalty
Conservation Threats
Infrastructure
Roads, dams, power lines, and buildings causing mortality or habitat fragmentation
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Crab Spider
Side-stepping ambush artists
Bonnethead Shark
Little hammerhead, big bay hunter
Garden Eel
Burrows, colonies, and current-fed eels
Kodkod
Tiny forest ghost of southern Chile
Quagga
Half-striped, fully gone-remember quagga
Harp Seal
Born on ice, built for the North
Babirusa
The pig with deer-like tusks
Huntsman Spider
Sideways legs. Lightning-fast hunters.
Rodents
Born to gnaw, built to adapt
Tiger Moth
Bright wings, bold defenses
Haddock
Thumbprint of the North Atlantic
Yeti Crab
Hairy claws, bacterial farms, deep sea
Carpenter Ant
Big ants, smooth galleries, no wood-eating.
Barn Swallow
Mud-cup mason of the open skies
Great Blue Heron
Stand still. Strike fast. Fly blue.
Mekong Giant Catfish
Giant of the Mekong, fighting to return
Spider Wasp
Paralyze a spider, raise a wasp
Mackenzie Valley Wolf
Mackenzie's big-pack apex hunter
Jackson’s Chameleon
Three horns. Live birth. Tree-top hunter.
Dung Beetle
Nature's cleanup crew-on the roll
Mole Cricket
Built to dig, born to sing
Crappie Fish
Slabs in the shadows, springtime stars
Northern Alligator Lizard
Armored, secretive, tail-shedding survivor