A HARD birdQUIZ photo!

I figured it was time for a challenging bird for identification here on the birdQUIZ blog! Please, take your time and use all field marks for your identification. To see this picture larger, follow this link here (HERE). Good luck!!

What Could This Bird Be?

Another fun warbler for you to try and identify.

Confusing Fall Warbler

On numerous occasions you see this little bird pop out of the shrubs and then quickly disappear never to be seen again. You did catch a quick glance of its head, belly pattern and colors that it had. You then start to break down the numerous possibilities in what bird that could have been that you saw. SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) is the method most birders use when out in the field and those specific important field marks are what you use to prove that “bird name” is what you saw!! But, is it really the species you saw or was it just a guess??

While banding bird, we never use the SWAG method because we must be 100% accurate. I use Pyle’s guide for my identification and many times we need to measure specific feathers, ect.. to prove that we are 100% sure that this species is a ….. species. Some species like the cardinal don’t need to be looked up because they are obviously a cardinal. If there are any birds in question, you release them unbanded after a few pictures and measurements to see why you were unable to identify that bird. Trust me there are those few that can be very difficult, even when you have that perfect 360 up-close view of the bird?? I guess that is why we call them Confusing Fall Warblers!

Here is one of those confusing fall warbler where once you find that one specific field mark that you instantly say “ it is a bird name”. Ya, I know bird name isn’t what we call this bird but I am leaving that up to you to try and figure out! Good luck everyone!

Gray and Red

 

This is my first “birdQUIZ” picture under the new blog! All needed field marks are visual for identification of this bird. Who would like to try first??

WELCOME

Welcome everyone to my new blog called birdQUIZ!! This will only be update every so often and specifically stick to testing everyone’s birding skills. Some might be easy and others you can expect to be very hard! Feel free to use any kind of reference you have available to you for identification! Good Luck Everyone!