Birds

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• Watch Animal Sulphur-crested cockatoo The sulphur-crested cockatoo is a large white parrot with a bright yellow crest. It lives in forests and towns in northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. Cockatoos live in noisy flocks, take turns keeping watch while others feed, and in Sydney some have learned to open garbage bins by watching each other.
• Watch Animal Superb fairywren The superb fairywren is a tiny Australian songbird that lives in family groups. In the breeding season the male is bright sky blue and black; the female is brown with an orange-red face. Older family members help feed the chicks, and mothers even call to their eggs before the chicks hatch.
• Watch Animal Superb lyrebird The superb lyrebird is a large, ground-living songbird of Australia's moist forests. It is a famous copycat: most of its song is made of sounds borrowed from other birds and even machines. The male has a spectacular tail that he throws over his head as he dances and sings.
• Watch Animal Tawny owl The tawny owl is a medium-sized woodland owl, about the size of a pigeon, with a round head, big dark eyes and brown, streaky feathers that hide it against tree bark. It hunts mice and voles at night on silent wings, and its hoots are a familiar sound at night.
• Watch 3D Animal Toco toucan The toco toucan is the biggest toucan, and its huge orange bill is the largest of any bird compared with its body. The bill is light and hollow. It is a tool for picking fruit, and scientists have found it also works like a radiator that lets out body heat. Tocos live in open woodlands and savannas of South America.
• Watch Animal Wandering albatross The wandering albatross has the largest known wingspan of any living bird, up to about 3.4 meters from tip to tip. It soars over the stormy Southern Ocean using the wind, catching squid and fish at the surface, and comes ashore only to breed on remote islands. A pair raises one chick at most every two years.
• Watch Animal White stork The white stork is a tall white bird with black flight feathers, a red bill and long orange legs. It nests on rooftops, chimneys and trees across Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and many storks soar south to spend the winter in Africa or South Asia.
• Watch Animal Whooping crane The whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America, snowy white with a red cap and black wingtips. In 1941 only about 21 were left. After decades of careful protection, scientists estimated about 540 cranes from the wild flock that flies between Canada and Texas in its main Texas winter home in 2025–2026.
• Watch Animal Wild turkey The wild turkey is a big, bronze-feathered bird of North American forests and clearings. It walks most of the time but can run, fly and even roost high in trees at night. By the early 1900s wild turkeys had become rare in many places, but people helped them come back, and now they live in every U.S. state except Alaska.