--- title: "Bird Animals (Page 3 of 4) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Feathered bipedal vertebrates with lightweight hollow bones, toothless beaks, and high metabolic rates." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bird/page/3/" --- # Bird Animals (Page 3 of 4) > Feathered bipedal vertebrates with lightweight hollow bones, toothless beaks, and high metabolic rates. **73 species in this collection.** - [Mute Swan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mute-swan/) (*Cygnus olor*) - **Superpower**: Raises its wings and twirls in a busking display, part of both rival standoffs and the mating ritual - **Musical Match**: Miki Matsubara (Japanese City Pop & Shibuya-kei) - [North Island Brown Kiwi](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi/) (*Apteryx mantelli*) - **Superpower**: Nostrils near the tip of a long, curved bill - **Musical Match**: Björk (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Northern Cardinal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/northern-cardinal/) (*Cardinalis cardinalis*) - **Superpower**: Turns yellow food pigments into red feathers - **Musical Match**: Low (Slowcore & Minimal Indie) - [Osprey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/osprey/) (*Pandion haliaetus*) - **Superpower**: A reversible outer toe and spiny footpads for gripping slippery fish - **Musical Match**: Slint (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Pileated Woodpecker](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pileated-woodpecker/) (*Dryocopus pileatus*) - **Superpower**: A barbed, sticky, stretchy tongue that hauls ants out of tunnels inside wood - **Musical Match**: Sheila E. (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Red-Tailed Hawk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-tailed-hawk/) (*Buteo jamaicensis*) - **Superpower**: Sees ultraviolet colours humans cannot - **Musical Match**: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Resplendent Quetzal](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/resplendent-quetzal/) (*Pharomachrus mocinno*) - **Superpower**: Iridescent Tail Plumes up to 90 cm & Laurel Seed Dispersal - **Musical Match**: Buena Vista Social Club (Cuban Son & Trova) - [Rock Dove](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/rock-dove/) (*Columba livia*) - **Superpower**: Homing: trained pigeons can return to their home loft from long distances away - **Musical Match**: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [Roseate Spoonbill](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/roseate-spoonbill/) (*Platalea ajaja*) - **Superpower**: Tactolocation: a slightly open bill, swung from side to side, that snaps shut when it contacts prey - **Musical Match**: Whitney Houston (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [Ruby-throated Hummingbird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/ruby-throated-hummingbird/) (*Archilochus colubris*) - **Superpower**: Wingbeats over 50 times a second, and often a body-doubling, non-stop Gulf of Mexico crossing - **Musical Match**: Taylor Swift (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Sandhill Crane](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sandhill-crane/) (*Antigone canadensis*) - **Superpower**: Mated pairs call in unison, a loud rattling trumpet duet - **Musical Match**: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Satin Bowerbird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/satin-bowerbird/) (*Ptilonorhynchus violaceus*) - **Superpower**: Builds a twin-walled stick avenue bower and decorates it with blue objects to attract females. - **Musical Match**: Kate Bush (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Scarlet Macaw](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/scarlet-macaw/) (*Ara macao*) - **Superpower**: A beak that can break open the toughest nuts and grind hard seeds against the palate, paired with a monogamous bond that lasts for life. - **Musical Match**: Gal Costa (Brazilian Bossa Nova & Tropicalia Samba) - [Secretarybird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/secretarybird/) (*Sagittarius serpentarius*) - **Superpower**: Stomping kicks: one captive male's peak force averaged five times his body weight, his foot on the snake for about 15 milliseconds a strike. - **Musical Match**: Rodrigo y Gabriela (Latin Psychedelic Cumbia & Flamenco) - [Shoebill Stork](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/shoebill-stork/) (*Balaeniceps rex*) - **Superpower**: Massive clog-shaped bill with sharp edges and a sharp hook, used to grab large prey such as lungfish in a lunging strike called "collapsing." - **Musical Match**: Nine Inch Nails (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [Snow Petrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/snow-petrel/) (*Pagodroma nivea*) - **Superpower**: A defensive spit of partly digested stomach oil that builds up into nest deposits, some radiocarbon-dated to the last ice age. - **Musical Match**: Ride (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Sociable Weaver](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sociable-weaver/) (*Philetairus socius*) - **Superpower**: Collective architecture: colonies build the world's largest bird nest, an insulated haystack that can weigh several tons and shelter hundreds of birds - **Musical Match**: Terry Riley (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Southern Cassowary](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cassowary/) (*Casuarius casuarius*) - **Superpower**: A five-inch dagger-like claw on each foot, a leap of up to seven feet off the ground, and a casque that appears to work as a heat radiator and glows under ultraviolet light. - **Musical Match**: Slayer (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Superb Lyrebird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/superb-lyrebird/) (*Menura novaehollandiae*) - **Superpower**: A song built roughly 80% from mimicry, including an acoustic illusion of a mixed-species alarm flock convincing enough that real birds treat it as genuine. - **Musical Match**: Aphex Twin (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Toco Toucan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/toco-toucan/) (*Ramphastos toco*) - **Superpower**: A bill laced with blood vessels that works as a heat radiator, carrying away an average of 60 percent of the bird's non-evaporative heat loss above 28°C. - **Musical Match**: Sérgio Mendes (Brazilian Bossa Nova & Tropicalia Samba) - [Turkey Vulture](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/turkey-vulture/) (*Cathartes aura*) - **Superpower**: Finds carrion by smell, even beneath forest canopy - **Musical Match**: Modest Mouse (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Vogelkop Bowerbird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vogelkop-bowerbird/) (*Amblyornis inornata*) - **Superpower**: Builds a different bower style depending on population, which may be a partly learned tradition passed down like a human art style. - **Musical Match**: Sufjan Stevens (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Wandering Albatross](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/wandering-albatross/) (*Diomedea exulans*) - **Superpower**: Wingspan of about 3 m, and cruises on tail or side winds using little more energy than a bird resting on land - **Musical Match**: The Specials (Ska-Punk & 2-Tone) - [Western Grebe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-grebe/) (*Aechmophorus occidentalis*) - **Superpower**: A neck structure, found among grebes only in it and Clark's grebe, for rapid spear-like thrusting of the bill - **Musical Match**: Bee Gees (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bird/page/2/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bird/page/4/