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 Note the pink legs, pale mantle and
dark gray on the underwing toward the trailing edge.
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Adult Glaucous-winged Gull |
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| Number 2 | ||
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Note the pointy tail and brownish gray
plumage. |
Female Northern Pintail (left), Male
Northern Pintail (right) |
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| Number 3 | ||
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The median stripe on the nape is
fairly typical of birds in this family. |
Horned Grebe |
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| Number 4 | ||
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Note the chunky posture, smooth dark
plumage, and slight reddish tinge on the tail. |
"Sooty" Fox Sparrow |
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| Number 5 | ||
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Note the overall gray appearance,
particularly on the flanks. |
Male Eurasian Wigeon |
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| Number 6 - moved to Quiz #15 (number 1) - click HERE to view. | ||
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Relatively smooth gray-brown
head plumage. |
Female Williamson's Sapsucker. |
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| Number 8 - moved to Quiz #13 (number 2) - click HERE to view. | ||
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| Number 9 | ||
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© Michael G. Shepard www.birdinfo.com |
Immature Snow Goose. |
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| Number 10 - moved to Quiz #15 (number 2) - click HERE to view. | ||
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Note the gray-brown back. Most of the retrices are
black, but the outermost has white edging. |
Horned Lark |
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Very long primaries and large white windows are good
clues. |
Adult Mew Gull |
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 Stout bill, lots of bare skin around eye, somewhat crested appearance. © Chris Illes |
Greater Roadrunner |
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 Broad whitish supercilium, often forages with all of bill and part of head under water, broad pale edging to most of wing feathers. Compare with dowitchers. © Mike Yip. |
Stilt Sandpiper |
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| Number 15 | ||
Difficult, if not impossible to identify from this image. |
Answer coming in October 2006 | |
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Dumpy appearance, long skinny tail, drab plumage. |
Bushtit © Mike Yip. |
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Apparently large, gray legs, brownish pink plumage. |
Mute Swan © Michael G. Shepard. |
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