Non passerine ID

Question 1

Answer 1

Northern Flicker

Question 2

Answer 2

Hairy Woodpecker

Question 3

Answer 3

Downy Woodpecker

*has a smaller beak about 1/2 the size of the head vs. the hairy

Question 4

Answer 4

Nuttall woodpecker

*looks like Hairy and downy but has speckles on the belly

Question 5

Answer 5

Acorn woodpecker

Question 6

Answer 6

Belted Kingfisher

Question 7

Answer 7

Allen’s Hummingbird

Question 8

Answer 8

Anna’s Hummingbird

*Has more of a purple neck

Question 9

Answer 9

White throated swift

Question 10

Answer 10

Barn Owl

Question 11

Answer 11

Great horned owl

*more of a reddish/brown color

Question 12

Answer 12

Western Screech owl

*looks like great horned but more of a gray

Question 13

Answer 13

Mourning dove

Question 14

Answer 14

Band tailed pigeon

*much more simpler than the rock pigeon

Question 15

Answer 15

Rock Pigeon

*the normal pigeon

Question 16

Answer 16

Forster’s tern

*pronounced dark tip of beak

and no black wing tips

Question 17

Answer 17

Caspian tern

*no black tip but instead a thin black ring around beak

*black wing tips

Question 18

Answer 18

Western gull

*pink legs/feet

*red spot on bill

Question 19

Answer 19

California Gull

*looks just like the western BUT has gold/yellow

legs and feet

Question 20

Answer 20

Ring Billed gull

*looks like california gull but has a ring on the beak

Question 21

Answer 21

Least Sandpiper

*has a lot of brown speckle on the back with

gold legs and feet

Question 22

Answer 22

Sanderling

*gray and white with black legs/feet

Question 23

Answer 23

Surf Bird

*all brown with gold legs and feet with

a gold beak with a black tip

Question 24

Answer 24

Black Turnstone

*looks like surfbird but with black coloring

and orange legs/feet

Question 25

Answer 25

Marbled godwit

*looks like sandpiper but has black legs

a very very long beak with a black tip

*gold belly

Question 26

Answer 26

Long billed curlew

looks like a sandpiper but has a curled beak inwards

Question 27

Answer 27

Whimbrel

*looks just like long billed curlew BUT has a very pronounced eye line and a forhead line

Question 28

Answer 28

Willet

*also looks like sand piper BUT has prounounced 2 black bands on wings

Question 29

Answer 29

short billed dowitcher

*looks like an orange sandpiper

Question 30

Answer 30

Spotted Sandpiper

*speckled belly

Question 31

Answer 31

American Avocet

*Reddish/brown head, black and white wing

with a black upturned bill

Question 32

Answer 32

Black necked stilt

*black cap that covers neck with white eyebrow

with white throat and belly

Pink legs

Question 33

Answer 33

Black Oyster

*red eye, red bill, all black

Question 34

Answer 34

Common Murre

*look like penguins but with slender necks

Question 35

Answer 35

Killdeer

*2 black bands on neck and black eyestripe

Question 36

Answer 36

Snowy plover

*very tiny, light brown back and white belly

with a little black line on forehead, neck and near eye

Question 37

Answer 37

American Coot

*not a duck

*All black with white beak and red spot on forehead

Question 38

Answer 38

Clapper rail

*orange neck and belly, with orange eyebrow and orange and black beak

Question 39

Answer 39

Peregrine Falcon

Question 40

Answer 40

American Kestrel

Question 41

Answer 41

Red tailed hawk

*reddish/orangish tail

Question 42

Answer 42

Red shouldered hawk

Red/orange on coverts (on shoulder)

Question 43

Answer 43

Cooper’s Hawk

*black back and black cap/tuft

Question 44

Answer 44

White tailed Kite

*white head and belly with red eyes

and gray wings with black shoulders

Question 45

Answer 45

Osprey

*brown eyestriped and brown back

and white face with white belly and white wing stripes

Question 46

Answer 46

Turkey Vulture

Question 47

Answer 47

Great Blue Heron

*black eyestripe

and grayish/blue body and brownish neck

Question 48

Answer 48

Great Egret

*all white NO head tuft

Question 49

Answer 49

Snowy Egret

*black legs with gold feet

*white tuft on head “fluffier”

Question 50

Answer 50

Black Crowned Night Heron

*black cap and back

with red eye

Question 51

Answer 51

American White Pelican

Question 52

Answer 52

Brown Pelican

*yellowish forehead, gray/brownish body

and red stripe next to bill

Question 53

Answer 53

Double Crested Cormorant

*orangish face, orange beak and black head and body

Question 54

Answer 54

Western Grebe

Question 55

Answer 55

Horned Grebe

*Bright Orange from eye to back of head tuft

*brown neck

Question 56

Answer 56

Eared Grebe

*yellowish feathers start at back of eye stops before back of head

Question 57

Answer 57

Pied billed Grebe

*very drab brown color but has ring on bill

Question 58

Answer 58

Common Loon

Question 59

Answer 59

California Quail

Question 60

Answer 60

Ruddy Duck

*blue bill!

Question 61

Answer 61

Hooded Merganser

*“Afro” like head with yellow eye

Question 62

Answer 62

Common Merganser

*green head, black back, and white body

Question 63

Answer 63

Bufflehead

*Black irridescent face and white back of head

and white body with black back

Question 64

Answer 64

Common golden eye

*gold eye and black irridescent head with white cheek patch

Question 65

Answer 65

Surf Scoter

Question 66

Answer 66

Lesser Scaup

*black head/neck and yellow eye

with a stripe pattern back

Question 67

Answer 67

Ring Necked Duck

*orange eye, with black body and grayish wing

*white and gray beak, with black tip

Question 68

Answer 68

Canvas Back

Question 69

Answer 69

Northern Pintail

Question 70

Answer 70

Green wing teal

Question 71

Answer 71

Northern shoveler

*looks like mallard but has black beak

and much more white coloring

Question 72

Answer 72

Cinnamon Teal

*all over cinnamon color with red eyes

a little teal on wings

Question 73

Answer 73

Mallard

Question 74

Answer 74

Gadwall

*all over speckly

Question 75

Answer 75

Wood duck

Question 76

Answer 76

Canada Goose