California Tarantula
Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California
Conservation Threats
Urbanization
Expansion of cities and human settlements into wildlife habitats
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Gooty Sapphire Tarantula
Metallic blue-built for the treetops
Green Bottle Blue Tarantula
Desert jewel, webbing machine
Mexican Fireleg Tarantula
Fire-legged, burrow-built, Mexico-made
Orchard Oriole
Smallest oriole, biggest spring song
Acadian Flycatcher
Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade
Eider
Downy divers of the far north
Purple Gallinule
The lily-pad walker of the wetlands
Nightjar
Built for twilight insect-hunting
Roadrunners
Desert cuckoos built for the fast lane
European Goldfinch
Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.
Upland Sandpiper
Fencepost singer of the prairie
Rough-Legged Hawk
The feather-legged hover-hunter
Epicyon haydeni
Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid
Theropod
From raptors to robins: all theropod
Argentinosaurus
Patagonia's almost-unfathomable giant
Veery
Spiral song, epic migration.
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
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