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Quiz 11 Flashcards

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Shorebirds of North America flashcards
1
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Hunts sparrow (South Africa)

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Lanner Falcon

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2
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Digs into Shearwater burrow to catch chick (New Zealand)

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Kea

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3
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Listens for lemming (Africa)

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Great Grey Owl

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4
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Cannot rotate eye in socket, keen vision detects movement of spider

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Giant Scops-owl

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5
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Hunts rabbits

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Common Buzzard

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6
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Can use UV vision to see urine of voles

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Common Kestrel hovering

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7
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Has no sense of smell

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Griffon Vulture

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Has acute sense of smell with wide-open nostrils; naked head is red (rainforest in Trinidad)

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Turkey vulture

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9
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Fight in air with talons (Malaysia)

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White-bellied Sea Eagles

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10
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Hunts Maine Iguana

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Galapagos Hawk

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Has long, double jointed legs to snatch lizard from rock cracks

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African Harrier Hawk

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12
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Impales lizard on Acacia thorn

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Grey backed Fiscal

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13
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Drops bone on rock to eat marrow

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Lammergier

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14
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Flies through apple orchard (English Wood)

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Eurasian Sparrowhawk

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15
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Hunts monkeys

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African Crowned Eagle

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16
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Feeds on acorns

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Eurasian Jay

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17
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Feeds on Common Teasel seeds

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European goldfinch

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18
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Cracks small seeds

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Blue tit

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19
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Can remove outer shell of rose hips with tongue

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Greenfinch

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20
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Eats cherry stone: cracks shell, then removes papery husk

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Hawfinch

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21
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Opens green pine cones, swallows clay to absorb resin (California)

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Common Crossbill

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22
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Stores up to 9 acorns in crop, buries up to 3,000 a month

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Eurasian Jay

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Stores up to 60,000 acorns in tree-constant maintenance (North America)

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Acorn Woodpecker

24
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Drills holes and sips pine sap

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Yellow-bellied sapsucker

25
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Drinks from sapsucker wells on aspen

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

26
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Both birds drink from Sapsucker wells on birches

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Bullock’s Oriole and Ruby-throated Hummingbird

27
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Drinks tree sap, hummer and warblers drinks from honeydew (Mexico)

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Scale desert

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Feeds on grass and poops undigested parts; can fly straight up

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Barnacle Goose

29
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Feeds on Acacia leaves, digests in sunlight (South Africa)

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Speckled Mousebird

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Has bacteria in 2nd stomach to ferment leaves (South America)

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Hoatzin

31
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Has brushy tongue to lap nectar (Australia)

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Rainbow Lorikeet

32
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Pollinates Heather plant (South Africa)

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Orange-breasted Sunbird

33
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Pollinates Lion’s Claw flower

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Golden-winged Sunbird

34
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Steals nectar from hole in trumpet of Datura Flower

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Black Flower Piercer

35
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Pollinates long trumpet of Datura plant and Banana Passion Flower

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Sword-billed Hummingbird

36
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Attracts many birds

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Purple Coral Tree

37
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Disperses seeds

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Knobbed Hornbill

38
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Disperses berries

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Bohemian Waxwing

39
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Disperse berries

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Kokako

40
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Disperses avocado seeds

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Resplendent Quetzal

41
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Catches Peleides Blue Morpho Butterfly

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Rufous-tailed Jacamar

42
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Eats ants, has stiff tail feathers

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Rufous Woodpecker

43
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Picks insects out of bark

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Eurasian Nuthatch

44
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Chisels for grubs in bark, has harpoon at tip of tongue

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Greater Spotted Woodpecker

45
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Uses cactus spine to dig grubs from trunk

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Woodpecker Finch

46
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Uses stick to irritate huge grub from log

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New Caledonian Crow

47
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Finds grubs rooted out by Wild Boar and humans

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European Robin

48
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Finds grubs kicked up by Seychelles Giant Tortoise

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Seychelles Magpie

49
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Follows Capybara

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Cattle Tyrant

50
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Feeds on ticks on Hippopotamus: 2 toes forward and 2 toes back for clinging

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Red-billed Oxpeckers

51
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Eat earwax and dandruff on Zebras and Giraffes and drink blood from Impala

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Oxpeckers

52
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Disperses avocado seeds; Red-and-green Macaw eats the seeds

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Emerald Toucanet

53
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Eats palm seeds

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Hyacinth Macaw

54
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Ingest clay to counteract poison in seeds

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Yellow-crowned parrot

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