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**