Kagu
Crest up. Wings out. Kagu!
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Natural System Modification Animals
Rhea
South America's sprinting ratites
Kowari
Black-banded tail, desert hunter
Loris
Quiet climbers of the night canopy
Kodiak Bear
Island giants of salmon season
Eastern Meadowlark
The flute-voice of open fields
Tiger snake
Southern wetlands' striped heavyweight
Eastern Tiger Snake
Wetland hunter with a tiger's bite
Tasmanian Tiger Snake
Banded, black, and built for wetlands
Rhesus Macaque
Street-smart primate, social to the core
Texas Brown Tarantula
Big, brown, and mostly mellow.
Arizona Blonde Tarantula
Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant
Chilean Rose Tarantula
Chile's "rose" with a hidden defense
Gooty Sapphire Tarantula
Metallic blue-built for the treetops
Acadian Flycatcher
Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade
Eider
Downy divers of the far north
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher
A spark of orange in deep shade
King Eider
Crown of the Arctic pack ice
Kea
The clever parrot of the snowline
Purple Gallinule
The lily-pad walker of the wetlands
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Tawny flocks, whistled calls
Upland Sandpiper
Fencepost singer of the prairie
Rough-Legged Hawk
The feather-legged hover-hunter
Epicyon haydeni
Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid