King Quail
Small quail, big color.
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Natural System Modification Animals
Egret
Wetland hunters in white
Eastern Turkey (Wild Turkey)
Big woods. Big gobble.
Jabiru
Big bill. Big bird. Big wetlands.
Egyptian Vulture
Small vulture, big cleanup crew
Evening Grosbeak
Vise-billed finch of winter flocks
Bee-Eater
Color in flight, precision in the air
Elf Owl
Tiny owl, big desert night hunter
Yellowhammer
Hedgerow gold with a looping chorus
Cedar Waxwing
The berry-loving bird in a velvet mask
Herring Gull
Coastline's clever scavenger
Meganeura
Carboniferous skies, colossal wings.
Ichthyostega
Half fish, half pioneer tetrapod
Seymouria
A near-amniote on Permian shores
Hyacinth Macaw
Biggest parrot. Toughest nutcracker.
Tawny Frogmouth
The broken-branch bird of the night
Sandpiper
Built for mudflats and megamigrations
Eastern Kingbird
Tiny tyrant with a white-tipped tail
Mockingbird
The bird with 400 voices
Australian Firehawk
Smoke-follower of the savannas
Eurasian Eagle-owl
Booming monarch of the night cliffs
Oxpecker
Tick riders of the African savanna
Finch
Built to crack seeds, born to sing
Nuthatch
Head-first bark detectives