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.
Black VultureCathartidae
Note featherless, dark gray head; hooked, straight bill
Pied-billed GrebePodicipedidae
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Note difference in bill shape
Mottled DuckNote unmarked tawny throat; dark body feathers with golden-brown edges
Common LoonGaviidae
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Green-winged Teal
Snowy Egret
WARNING:Feet in study skins will never look this bright yellow
Magnificent Frigatebird
That long, forked, black tail is diagnostic
Northern BobwhiteOdontophoridae
Red-breasted Merganser(female)
Wood StorkCiconiidae
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose
White-faced IbisThreskiornithidae