BIOL 4142 Photo Quiz Lab 1 Ornithology birds: Gaviidae through Cathartidae

1. BIOL 4142 Photo Quiz Lab 1 Ornithology birds: Gaviidae through Cathartidae First, you’ll see a photo showing just enough to allow you to clinch the ID. Then, you’ll see the full photo with the name and perhaps some ID tips on specimens (not field ID)

3. The only heron with a black crown and back, clean whitish underparts Black-crowned Night Heron; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

5. Blackish body and nearly feather-less grayish black head Black Vulture; Cathartidae; Accipitriformes

7. Only the White-faced Ibis has a decurved bill like this, and it isn’t white White Ibis; Threskiornithidae; Pelecaniformes

9. Bare head like a vulture; bill decurved at tip Wood Stork; Ciconiidae; Ciconiiformes

11. Tawny crown and center of breast; pale bill and legs Cattle Egret; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

13. The only heron with complex, brown plumage; note the blackish malar American Bittern; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

15. The only bird, much less heron, with a yellowish crown; note uniform gray underparts Yellow-crowned Night Heron; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

17. Specimens never have heads this red, but they are never blackish Turkey Vulture; Cathartidae; Accipitriformes

19. Small heron with green feathers in back, dark crown, dark reddish brown neck, breast, and face Green Heron; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

21. The only heron with reddish brown head (variable) and grayish blue body Little Blue Heron; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

23. All white heron with black bill Unfortunately the yellow feet don’t retain that color much in the specimens Snowy Egret; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

25. All white heron with yellowbill Great Egret; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

27. Large gray heron with black crown Great Blue Heron; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

29. Large, black, long FORKED tail, hooked bill Magnificent Frigatebird; Fregatidae; Suliformes

31. Large, black, relatively short tail, hooked bill; posterior border of facial skin relatively rounded; lores not feathered Double-crested Cormorant; Phalacrocoracidae; Suliformes

33. Small, blackish, white upper tail coverts; single elevated tubular nostril, visible even in this photo Wilson’s Storm-Petrel; Hydrobatidae; Procellariiformes

35. Like Double-crested, but posterior border of facial skin relatively angular, often bordered by white feathers; lores feathered Neotropic Cormorant; Phalacrocoracidae; Suliformes

37. Tiny heron with dark back and crown, tawny brown face and upper wing coverts Least Bittern; Ardeidae; Pelecaniformes

39. Large, black, relatively long tail, straight bill (no hook like cormorants); silvery feathers in upperwing coverts; notice corrugated central rectrices, tipped light brownish Anhinga; Anhingidae; Suliformes

41. Decurved bill and not white, so … May look black, but … White-faced Ibis; Threskiornithidae; Pelecaniformes

43. Blackish brown above, white below; note parallel tubular nostrils on bill (barely visible at the base of the bill in this photo) Audubon’s Shearwater; Procellariidae; Procellariiformes

45. What else could it be? Roseate Spoonbill; Threskiornithidae; Pelecaniformes