O BIOL 4142 ORNITHOLOGY LAB PRACTICE QUIZZES Lab 1

1. OBIOL 4142ORNITHOLOGY LAB PRACTICE QUIZZESLab 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.

2. #1

4. Note featherless, dark gray head; hooked, straight bill Black Vulture Cathartidae

5. #2

7. Pied-billed Grebe Podicipedidae

8. #3

10. Canada Goose Note difference in bill shape Cackling Goose

11. #4

13. Note unmarked tawny throat; dark body feathers with golden-brown edges Mottled Duck

14. #5

16. Common Loon Gaviidae

17. #6

19. Fulvous Whistling-Duck

20. #7

22. Great Egret

23. #8

25. Green Heron

26. #9

28. Green-winged Teal

29. #10

31. Snowy Egret WARNING: Feet in study skins will never look this bright yellow

32. #11

34. Least Bittern

35. #12

37. Magnificent Frigatebird That long, forked, black tail is diagnostic

38. #13

40. Northern Bobwhite Odontophoridae

41. #14

43. Blue-winged Teal

44. #15

46. Red-breasted Merganser (female)

47. #16

49. Wood Stork Ciconiidae

50. #17