Silhouette of a bird flying!
Silhouette of a bird in New York! Be careful, this one can be tricky!
Silhouette birdQUIZ
March 19, 2008 · 12 Comments
Categories: Birds · Could Be Hard · Easy · Hard · Quiz · Test · birdQUIZ
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birdQUIZ
Welcome everyone to the birdQUIZ blog that will help you with your bird identification skills. Feel free to use any kind of reference you have available for your identification (Sibley’s Field Guide is recommended)!! Good Luck Everyone!
If you need spoilers click on the comments but I strongly suggest that you try to identify the bird first before moving down to see what answers have been given already. The person who commented could be wrong!! Most or all of these birds have been identified in the hand already and we know the answer (unless we say we don't know the answer).
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12 responses so far ↓
Lynne at Hasty Brook // March 19, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Common Raven?
mon@rch // March 19, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Great birdQUIZ - Young Naturalist J! Not sure if it would be fair to guess what bird this was!! But it is a great quiz for sure!
Patrick // March 19, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I was thinking Raven too.
Sue // March 19, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Raven…
Pinar // March 20, 2008 at 2:33 am
It looks like a Raven to me too…
Linda in Erie // March 20, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Wedge-shaped tail, soars like a hawk, I’ll say a Raven, too.
Jerriann Zinter // March 21, 2008 at 8:48 am
My first thought was a raven also.
aullori // March 21, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I’m going with the smaller version or the crow (however we’ve got some big crows around here… and I think you all do too.) p.s. if I’m wrong I think I’m learning something new…
AnimalGuy // March 21, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Raven?
mon@rch // March 21, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I thought this one would have been a tricky one! I am taking Young Naturalist J’s flame here but everyone is right with this being a Common Raven! Wedged tail, bill size compared to its body and flying more like a hawk! Everything you would expect in a Raven! When I captured this photo the Raven was very vocal and then I had wished I captured this on video! But then again if it was a video . . . there wouldn’t have been any doubt on what species it was!
aullori // March 22, 2008 at 12:10 pm
thanks for posting this guys (Naturalist J & Monarch) I have a hard time ID’ing these guys in flight I’m glad you posted this! Thank you!
Tiff // April 28, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Either big crow or raven.
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