OBIOL 4142 ORNITHOLOGY 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 Vulture Cathartidae Note featherless, dark gray head; hooked, straight bill
#2
Pied-billed Grebe Podicipedidae
#3
Cackling Goose Canada Goose Note difference in bill shape
#4
Mottled Duck Note unmarked tawny throat; dark body feathers with golden-brown edges
#5
Common Loon Gaviidae
#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 Bobwhite Odontophoridae
#14
Blue-winged Teal
#15
Red-breasted Merganser (female)
#16
Wood Stork Ciconiidae
#17
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
#18
Greater White-fronted Goose
#19
Ross’s Goose
#20
Gadwall
#21
White-faced Ibis Threskiornithidae
#22
Redhead