10,000birds.com had this rather interesting "quiz" running last week. These bird silhouettes were given, and one had to figure out what they were, without looking up the books.
You can read all about it here.
The pictures are from that site.
So these were my guesses:1. Some kind of pigeon/dove
2. Could it be a sparrow?
7. Hoopoe
8. Drongo
9,10, 11 - swallows and swifts of some kind!
23 ... crow??
20. coucal
28. some kind of pheasant
13. robin
... I give up. Dont know any more!
Try your hand.
They are not necessarily birds found around here, but its still fun to do.
The answers are in the comments
1. Mourning Dove (not bad, I got the species right atleast.
ReplyDelete2. House Sparrow! Correct!
3. Common Grackle ... well it goes rapidly downhill from here.
4. Starling
5. Cowbird
6. Blackbird
7. belted Kingfisher
8. Scissor-tailed flycatcher - would that be a drongo?
9. Purple Martin
10. barn swallow
11. Cliff Swallow
12. Blue jay
13. Mockingbird
14. Song sparrow
15. Shrike
16. Flicker
17. kestrel - hmmm
18. Cardinal
19. Bluebird
20. Magpie
21. Nighthawk
22. Robin
23. meadowlark - yikes I should've know...singing like a lark and all that
24. Kingbird
25.Horned lark
26. Phoebe
27. Killdeer
28. pheasant yes!
29. Burrowing owl
30. Bobwhite
31. California Quail
32. Crow.
CAN YOU BELIEVE I DIDNT GET THE CROW! I mean how lame can that be. A Madrasi cannot recognise a crow silhouette. I should hide my head in shame for this
In your defense, these are North American birds. We don't have drongos or coucals out here! I bet I'd do even worse than you did if the situation was reversed.
ReplyDeleteYou're very kind Mike!!
ReplyDelete