The Vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus) is a small passerine bird found throughout South America and southern North America. The species was first described in the late 1830s as a result of the voyages of Charles Darwin. The common name of...
The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus ) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as...
The Californian turkey (Meleagris californica ) is an extinct species of turkey indigenous to the Pleistocene and early Holocene of California. It has been estimated that the Californian turkey went extinct about 10,000 years ago.Fossil evidence...
The Moffitt's Canada goose (Branta canadensis moffitti ), also known as the Western Canada goose or Great Basin Canada Goose is a subspecies of the Canada goose. Native to the western interior of North America surrounding the Rocky Mountains, its...
The southwestern red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis fuertesi ) is a subspecies of red-tailed hawk that breeds from northern Chihuahua to southern Texas. It winters in Arizona, New Mexico and southern Louisiana. This seems to be a particularly large...
Cygnus paloregonus is a fossil swan. It is an ancestor of, and distantly allied to, the mute swan. It is known from the Pleistocene from Fossil Lake, Oregon, Froman's Ferry, Idaho, and from Arizona. It is referred to by Hildegarde Howard in...
The brown-throated wren (Troglodytes aedon brunneicollis ) is a mostly Mexican bird in the wren family, often considered a subspecies of the house wren.
