Aves

Great Grey Owl
Strix nebulosa


6 POINTS
Play: The great grey owl has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: Great grey owls hunt during the day and can hear their rodent prey moving up to 60 cm below the surface of the snow.

Cooper’s Hawk
Buteo platypterus


7 POINTS
Play: Cooper’s hawk has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: Cooper’s hawks belong to a family of hawks whose short, rounded wings help them to fly quickly through the forest.

Village Indigobird
Vidua chalybeata



Play: The Village Indigobird has a FLIGHT of 2.
Fact: The Village Indigobird is a brood parasite which lays its eggs in the nests of red-billed fire finches.

Darwin’s Tanager
Pipraeidea darwinii


3 POINTS
Play: Darwin’s Tanager has a FLIGHT of 2.
Fact: The Darwin’s Tanager is considered a separate subspecies from the blue and yellow tanager, because it has a green back instead of a black one.

Darwin’s Rhea
Rhea pennata



3 POINTS
Play: Darwin’s Rhea has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: Darwin was searching for this bird, and first came across it on his dinner table when Conrad Martens, an artist on board the H.M.S. Beagle, accidentally shot one for a meal.

Floreana Mockingbird
Mimus trifasciatus


3 POINTS
Play: The Floreana Mockingbird has a FLIGHT of 2.
Fact: The Floreana Mockingbird is critically endangered and is on the brink of extinction.