OBIOL 4142ORNITHOLOGY LAB PRACTICE QUIZZES

Lab 1

For each species:

• The first photo is one in which everything is covered except for a couple of key features. You should be able to ID the species just from this view.

• The second photo is reveals the entire bird. Now, you definitely should be able to identify the species.

• The third photo adds the English name so that you know if … oops I mean … can confirm that you got the ID correct.

#1

Black VultureCathartidae

Note featherless, dark gray head; hooked, straight bill

#2

Pied-billed GrebePodicipedidae

#3

Cackling Goose

Canada Goose

Note difference in bill shape

#4

Mottled DuckNote unmarked tawny throat; dark body feathers with golden-brown edges

#5

Common LoonGaviidae

#6

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

#7

Great Egret

#8

Green Heron

#9

Green-winged Teal

#10

Snowy Egret

WARNING:Feet in study skins will never look this bright yellow

#11

Least Bittern

#12

Magnificent Frigatebird

That long, forked, black tail is diagnostic

#13

Northern BobwhiteOdontophoridae

#14

Blue-winged Teal

#15

Red-breasted Merganser(female)

#16

Wood StorkCiconiidae

#17

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

#18

Greater White-fronted Goose

#19

Ross’s Goose

#20

Gadwall

#21

White-faced IbisThreskiornithidae

#22

Redhead