BIOL 4142 Photo QuizLab 5 Ornithology birds

Quiz A:

First, you’ll see a photo showing just enough to allow you to clinch the ID. Then, you’ll see the full photo without the name, and then the photo with the name and perhaps some ID tips on specimens (not field ID).

Blue Grosbeak (Cardinalidae)

Worm-eating Warbler (Parulidae)

American Redstart (Parulidae)

Bay-breasted Warbler (Parulidae)

House Finch (Fringillidae)

Head color variable, but flanks and belly always streaked.

Black-and-white Warbler (Parulidae)

American Goldfinch (Fringillidae)

Nothing else has those jet black wings and white wingbars.

Note the yellowish color in the face.

Note the short, forked tail

Blackburnian Warbler (Parulidae)

Blackpoll Warbler (Parulidae)

Blue-winged Warbler (Parulidae)

Narrow black eyeline diagnostic

Boat-tailed Grackle (Icteridae)

Nothing else has that shiny violet color everywhere. Note also the long tail.

Brown-headed Cowbird (Icteridae)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (Parulidae)

Greenish yellow crown separated from white face by black eyeline is diagnostic.

Of course the chestnut sides and flanks are diagnostic.

Summer Tanager female (Cardinalidae)

Note big bill

Greenish and yellowish overall; remiges and rectrices edged with same greenish and yellowish tones.

Orchard Oriole female (Icteridae)

Primaries and secondaries with distinctive pale edges; white wingbars

Too big to be any warbler, especially bill; compare to female Summer Tanager

Field Sparrow (Emberizidae)

Plain face, rusty crown, no ventral markings.

Common Yellowthroat (Parulidae)

Black mask bordered above by pale gray; yellow throat and upper breast. Note yellow does NOT extend into belly, as it does on most other species with black in face and yellow underparts.

Common Grackle female (Icteridae)

Like male, just duller

Dickcissel (Cardinalidae)

Note striped back, chestnut upperwing coverts, seed-crusher bill

Chipping Sparrow (Emberizidae)

Reddish brown crown, pale superciliary, black eyeline extending into lores …

Fox Sparrow (Emberizidae)

Note the bright reddish brown tail, extensive belly markings

Black-throated Green Warbler (Parulidae)

Golden-winged Warbler (Parulidae)

Hooded Warbler (Parulidae)

House Sparrow (Passeridae)

Plain face, plain brown crown, broad pale superciliary … likes Doritos, fries

Baltimore Oriole (Icteridae)

House Finch female (Fringillidae)

Very plain face, heavily streaked

House Sparrow (Passeridae)

Orchard Oriole (Icteridae)

Indigo Bunting (Cardinalidae)

Kentucky Warbler (Parulidae)

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parulidae)

All-white throat

Faint buff tinge on flanks

Magnolia Warbler (Parulidae)