Bird stuff + mnemonics Flashcards by Samuel Jackson

Sanderling

San - Sans hallux, main bird w/o one

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American Kestrel

Hooked bill w/notch. Traditional sexual dimorphism, male has more contrast

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Ruddy Turnstone

beak for turning stones. closest to killdeer, no necklaces

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Killdeer

Edgy - choker and necklace

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Snowy egret

B beak, Y feet

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Cattle egret

Y beak and feet, orange buff for breeding

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Barred owl

Brown with white barring, feathers on feet stop at toes, not tufts. Barred - bared, bare feet (not legs)

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Barn owl

evil ahh

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Belted kingfisher

Syndactyl, rust chest belt and white chin. Belted = belt

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Chuck-will’s-widow

brown

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Common nighthawk

white barring. dark brown + white

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Northern bobwhite

m is more white with contrast, f is yellow with less contrast

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Great horned owl

Ear tufts

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Mottled duck

green on wings, no white around green

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Green winged teal

duh

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Blue winged teal

M: white mask, F: brown

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Hooded merganser

m: black with white dot mohawk, f: brown

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Wild turkey

m: iridescent, f: dull. m always has beard but f can too in some cases

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ring-necked duck

self-ex. black chest high contrast into white below

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Wood duck

coloration on face, unlike mallard which is solid green

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Royal tern

dark crown

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Black skimmer

underbite

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Burrowing owl

no feathers on feet

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Eastern screech owl

ear tufts, 2 morphs (brown/gray or red)

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Summer tanager

solid red

House finch

m: red chin/chest, around head

Common yellowthroat

yellow throat. m: black mask, f: no

palm warbler

no yellow in any definitive spot, potentially cloaca

cedar waxwing

mad obvious

yellow-bulled cuckoo

bicolor, thick yellow hooked beak, rusty wing tips and white spots under rectrices

Eastern phoebe

raccoon bird, basic bitch phoebe

White-eyed vireo

saturated yellow bar on face

Fringillidae

Finches - Fringe sounds moderately like finch

Icteridae

Grackles - if you don't like grackles, you give me the ICK

Procellariformes

Petrels + shearwaters, tubular nares: protruding nares, pro

Suliformes

Cormorants, anhingas - silly, suli

Red tailed hawk

red tail

Osprey

white head brown mask, brown top white bottom

Redwing blackbird

m: obv, f: brown + white striations on whole body

Brown thrasher

Long bill, white/brown striations, pattern stops midway, long tail

Pied-billed grebe

pied = bicolored beak, small brown, LOBATE FEET

Wood stork

black wing tips, bald as shit

Ruby-throated hummingbird

only m has ruby throat

Chimney swift

long wings, no tail feathers

Gaviiformes

Loons

Podicipediformes

Grebes

Sturnidae

starlings - stur = star

Bombycillidae

Waxwings - coloration is the bomb

Pelecaniformes

Pelicans, egrets, ospreys, ibises

Ciconiiformes

storks- iconic

Cuculiformes

cuckoos, anis, in name

strigiformes

owls + barn owls, strict

Ring-billed gull

ring on bill

laughing gull

m: black head, f: nah, both have black wing tips

Audubon's shearwater

tubular nares

Common loon

nonbreeding = brown, bicolor, long bill and webbed feet

Carolina chickadee

yellow underside, black and white head

Columbiformes

pigeons + doves. dumb birds, columbus was dumb

Charadriiformes

Plover, sandpiper, gull, tern, skimmer. you might think they're in pelecaniformes but it's a charade

Limpkin

brown with white striations, snail eating curved beak

Sandhill crane

big grey red head

Brown-headed cowbird

m - black/brown head, f - brown w/ white bib

House sparrow

m - black bib, f - nah

American coot

lobate feet

White ibis

white w orange curved beak, juvenile is brown

northern flicker

red crown, eye feathers and yellow accents underwing

Downy woodpecker

red highlight, small

brown pelican

duh

little blue heron

little and blue. juvenile: white, black bill yellow legs

European starling

black with white spots, "stars"

American crow

larger, matte brown/black

Fish crow

shiny blue/black

Rock pigeon

goat

Eurasian collared dove

gray/brown, black crown

Mimidae

mockingbirds, thrashers. mimic

Polionoptidae

Gnatcatchers

Loggerhead shrike

gray with black mask, murder

tufted titmouse

head tufts, small gray hooked beak, newsbird

Gray catbird

all gray, black cap and rusty tail base

Boat-tailed grackle

paddle shaped tail, f: slight bicolor, m: iridescent blue

Common grackle

m looks same, f: brown, purple shine stops down body

Tyrannidae

tyrant flycatchers

Laniidae

Shrikes

Cardinalidae

cardinals, tanagers, grosbeaks

Parulidae

Warblers

Corvidae

jays, crows

Vireonidae

vireos

Northern cardinal

m: red black mask, f: red and brown

Mourning dove

brown all over

Gruiformes

Gallinules, coots, limpkin, crane, rail

Galliformes

quails, pheasants

Accipitriformes

hawks, ospreys

Cathartiformes

vultures

Anseriformes

ducks swans geese

Falconiformes

kestrel

FL scrub jay

Blue and gray, rough colors

Mockingbird

barred wings, LONG tail

Great egret

big white

Great blue heron

big blue

Eastern bluebird

really blue

Blue jay

Black patterns, barring, some blue

Gray-headed swamphen

gray head

Common gallinule

red bill

purple gallinule

purple

Blue-gray gnatcatchers

m: black unibrow, bluish top white bottom

Barn swallow

Long wings WITH tail feathers unlike chimney swift