Birds Exam 1 Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
1
Q
A

Least Tern

  • smallest tern
  • long pointed wings
  • black cap & eyestrip

Diet: Fish

FM: High Dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q
A

Forster’s Tern

  • forked tail
  • batman mask with white lores

Diet: Fish

FM: High DIves

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q
A

Royal Tern

  • orange bill
  • orange & black feet
  • batman mask that starts at eyes

Diet: Fish

FM: High Dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q
A

Caspian Tern

  • red/orange bill
  • black cap extends to forehead

Diet: Fish

FM: High DIves

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q
A

Black Skimmer

  • lower mandible longer than upper mandible

Diet: Fish

FM: Skims

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q
A

Immature and Adult

Western Gull

  • Immature brown all over
  • Adult has darker gray on wings than California Gull
  • very square tails

Diet: Fish

FM: Low patrol

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q
A

California Gull

  • lighter gray than Western Gull wings
  • wings extend past square white tail

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Low Dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q
A

Ring-billed Gull

  • ring around bill
  • smallest of gulls

Diet: Omnivore

FM: Ground glean

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q
A

Heerman’s Gull

  • white head, gray body, darker wings, red bill

Diet: Fish

FM: High Dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q
A

Common Loon

  • Fish-eating bill
  • webbed feet
  • legs back on body (can’t take off flying from land because of this)

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface Dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q
A

Pied-billed Grebe

  • Lobed toes/feet
  • black throat
  • line on bill

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q
A

Eared Grebe

  • lobed toes/feet
  • looks like Clark’s and Western Grebes but smaller
  • gray on neck

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q
A

Clark’s Grebe

  • lobed toes/feet
  • white lores in breeding season

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q
A

Western Grebe

  • lobed toes/feet
  • dark lores in breeding season

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q
A

Immature and Adult

Brown Pelican

  • Immature all brown
  • Adult has black, white, & orange on head
  • totipalmate feet

Diet: Fish

FM: High dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q
A

Adult Brandt’s Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • long white filament feathers on back
  • light below bill on chin

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q
A

Immature Brandt’s Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • all brown, with lighter brown under bill on chin

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q
A

Adult Double-crested Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • black tufts on side of head
  • tails longer than Brandt’s Cormorant

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q
A

Immature Double-crested Cormorant

  • totipalmate feet
  • immature all brown with larger tail than Brandt’s Cormorant

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q
A

Great Blue Heron

  • Black & white body
  • gray neck with white & black head

Diet: Fish

FM: Stalk and strike

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q
A

Green Heron

  • rust colored breast and nape
  • green back, cap, & wings

Diet: Fish

FM: Stalk and strike

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q
A

Great Egret

  • yellow bill
  • black legs & feet

Diet: Fish

FM: Stalk and strike

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q
A

Cattle Egret

  • yellow bill
  • yellow legs & feet

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q
A

Snowy Egret

  • black bill & legs
  • yellow feet

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Stalk and strike

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q
A

Brant

  • white spotted ring around black neck
  • smaller than Canada Goose

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Surface dips

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q
A

Canada Goose

  • white chin & rump
  • black neck

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Surface dips

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q
A

Female Ruddy Duck

  • Brown stripe through white patch on head

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q
A

Male Ruddy Duck

  • all white patch on head

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

29
Q
A

Redhead

  • demarkation from black to white is a wide V shape
  • darker toward rump

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Surface dives

30
Q
A

Canvasback

  • demarkation from black to white is in a straight line

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Surface dives

31
Q
A

Female American Wigeon

  • distinct demarkation from brown to white on chest

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Dabbles

32
Q
A

Male American Wigeon

  • Green stripe through eye
  • White on head

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Dabbles

33
Q
A

Male Mallard

  • Green head, white ring around neck
  • purple speculum

Diet: Seeds/grains

FM: Dabbles

34
Q
A

Female Mallard

  • brown with white chin
  • purple speculum

Diet: Seeds/grains

FM: Dabbles

35
Q
A

Female Northern Pintail

  • no pattern/ brown
  • pointed tail

Diet: Seeds/grains

FM: Dabbles

36
Q
A

Male Northern Pintail

  • Brown & white with black tail
  • tail pointed

Diet: Seeds/grains

FM: Dabbles

37
Q
A

Male Cinnamon Teal

  • Cinnamon//rust colored
  • Green speculum
  • Baby-blue wing patch

Diet: Seeds/grains

FM: Surface dips

38
Q
A

Female Cinnamon Teal

  • Baby-blue wing patch
  • **No white crescent on face like Blue-winged Teal**

Diet: Seeds/grains

FM: Surface dips

39
Q
A

Blue-winged Teal

  • Brown with white crescent moon on face
  • Green speculum
  • Baby-blue wing patch

Diet: Seeds

FM: Surface dips

40
Q
A

Male Green-winged Teal

  • Copper colored head with green stripe
  • Green speculum

Diet: Seeds

FM: Ground glean

41
Q
A

Female Green-winged Teal

  • Green speculum

Diet: Seeds

FM: Ground glean

42
Q
A

Lesser Scaup

  • Black with white belly

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface Dives

43
Q
A

Female Northern Shoveler

  • no pattern, but shovel bill

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Surface dips

44
Q
A

Male Northern Shoveler

  • Shovel for bill
  • Black head, white chest, copper body

Diet: Vegitation

FM: Surface dips

45
Q
A

Male Bufflehead

  • Purple on face with large white patch

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

46
Q
A

Female Bufflehead

  • Smaller white patch on face than male

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Surface dives

47
Q
A

Male Red-breasted Merganser

  • Bill looks like it has teeth

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

48
Q
A

Female Red-breasted Merganser

  • Bill looks like it has teeth

Diet: Fish

FM: Surface dives

49
Q
A

Osprey

  • Large white and black raptor
  • Will hold fish parallel to body

Diet: Fish

FM: High dives

50
Q
A

Peregrin Falcon

  • Long, pointed wings
  • Brown spots on cream underbelly

Diet: Birds

FM: Aerial Pursuit

51
Q
A

Clapper Rail

  • Flanks barred

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Probes

52
Q
A

Sora

  • Flanks barred
  • Smaller than Clapper Rail

Diet: Seeds

FM: Ground glean

53
Q
A

American Coot

  • All black
  • Lobed toes/feet

Diet: Omnivore

FM: Surface dips

54
Q
A

Whimbrel

  • Bill decurved

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

55
Q
A

Marbled Godwit

  • Recurved bill

Diet: Aquatic invertebrates

FM: Probes

56
Q
A

Greater Yellowlegs

  • Yellow legs
  • Long bill, long legs

Diet: Fish

FM: Probes

57
Q
A

Willet

  • Prominent white wing patch

Diet: Aquatic Invertebrates

FM: Probes

58
Q
A

Willet

  • Prominent white wing patch

Diet: Aquatic invertebrates

FM: Probes

59
Q
A

Spotted Sandpiper

  • Small black dots on white belly

Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

60
Q
A

Short-billed Dowitcher

  • Long bill
  • Short legs
  • Feeds like a sewing machine

Diet: Aquatic invertebrates

FM: Probes

61
Q
A

Sanderling

  • Small prober
  • No spots like Spotted Sandpiper

Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates

FM: Probes

62
Q
A

Western Sandpiper

  • Very small
  • Whiter than Least Sandpiper

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

63
Q
A

Least Sandpiper

  • Very small
  • Browner than Western Sanpiper

Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates

FM: Probes

64
Q
A

Killdeer

  • Bulbous bill
  • Two black bands on white chest

Diet: Terrestrial Invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

65
Q
A

Semipalmated Plover

  • Bulbous bill
  • One band on chest

Diet: Aquatic invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

66
Q
A

Snowy Plover

  • Bulbous bill
  • Partial band on chest

Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

67
Q
A

Black-bellied Plover

  • Bulbous bill
  • Larger than other plovers
  • Black belly only during breeding season (this one has winter plumage)

Diet: Terrestrial invertebrates

FM: Ground glean

68
Q
A

American Avocet

  • Very recurved bill
  • Looks like a toasted marshmallow

Diet: Omnivore

FM: Sweeps

69
Q
A

Black-necked Stilt

  • Very long legs
  • Black bill

Diet: Aquatic invertebrates

FM: Probes, Ground glean