Birds Flashcards
White Head, gold feet and beak. white tail and brown body.
Bald Eagle
Red-Tailed Hawk
broad tail and wide wings. It has a reddish tail
Ferruginous Hawk
you might be able to identify it by a reddish V formed by its dark legs against its lower body. Iron Colored.
Barn Owl
barn owl has a white, heart-shaped face and long legs. Unlike most Minnesota owls, it has dark, not yellow, eyes.
Great Horned Owl
a large bird of prey with large yellow eyes and feather tufts that look like horns.
Peregrine Falcon
large size combined with extensive black facial markings. Adults have dark blue to slate gray upperparts, white throats, and spotted or barred underparts.
Snowy owl
a large, white owl with a round head, yellow eyes, no ear tufts and a black beak.
Great Gray Owl
large rings around its yellow eyes and two white patches near its beak that make it look like it has a snowy mustache.
Burrowing owl
light brown owl whose most distinctive features include its long legs, short tail, and lack of ear tufts. It is most often seen perched on the ground or atop a small raised mound or fencepost. Little thing
Double Crested Cormorant
a long, thick neck, stout body, short rounded wings, medium length tail with stiff feathers, and legs that are positioned far back on the body. Webs connect all four toes on each foot and provide additional thrust in swimming.
Merlin
Dark birds about the size of a jay. In flight their wings appear short and pointed.
American Kestrel
t has a rusty tail and back and two vertical black stripes in its face. It has a short, hooked bill; white cheeks; a long tail and long, pointed wings.
American White Pelican
a long neck, a long orange bill with an expandable pouch and short orange legs with big webbed feet.
Brown Pelican
It has a brown and gray body and a white head with a light brown crown.
California Gull
a medium-sized gull, smaller on average than the herring gull but larger on average than the ring-billed gull, though it may overlap in size greatly with both
