Passerines Flashcards

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House Sparrow

*traditional sparrow but with a lot of a gray

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Lesser Goldfinch

*like the american goldfinch but much more gray on back

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House Finch

*red face and chest with gray body

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Brown-head Cowbird

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Brewer’s Blackbird

*yellow eyes and irridescent body

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Red-winged blackbird

*red epilettes

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Great-tailed Grackle

*looks like Brewer’s but has a very long tail

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Western Meadowlark

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Bullocks Oriole

*Small black cap,black eyestripe, and a little black beard

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Blackheaded Grosbeak

*Black head, brownish belly with a yellow spot in the under belly

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Northern Cardinal

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Painted Bunting

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Lazuli Bunting

*blue head and back, with brown chest and white belly

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Western Tanager

*red face, yellow belly, and gray back

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Golden Crowned Sparrow

*typical sparrow but with yellow on the head

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White-crowned Sparrow

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Dark-eyed Junco

*black head and brown body

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Song sparrow

*rufousy color on back and white belly with one brown spot on chest

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Fox sparrow

*like song but with full speckle on belly

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Savannah Sparrow

*like a typical sparrow BUT yellow eyebrows

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Spotted Towhee

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California Towhee

*like a spotted towhee but all drab and brown

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Wilson’s warbler

*looks like a regular warbler but with a little black toupè

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Common yellowthroat

*looks like yellow warbler but with a little black face and a white eyebrow

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**Yellow-rumped Warbler** \*Gray body but has a little yellow stripe on top of head and has a little yellow on its rump
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**Townsend's Warbler** \*yellow warbler but with "black glasses"
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**yellow warbler**
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**Orange-crowned warbler** \*just like yellow warbler but with an orange crown
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**Cedar Waxwing**
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**European Starling** \*irridescent black with white speckles all over
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**California Thrasher** \*Brown bird with long curved beak
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**Northern Mockingbird** \*ombre gray from light--\>dark with white wing bar
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**\*Hermit thrush** \*drab brown back and head with white belly and speckled top of chest but white belly
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**American Robin**
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**Varied Thrush** \*black eyestripe and black neck ring with orange face and belly and gray back
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**Western Bluebird** \*all blue with little brown flanks
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**Ruby-crowned kinglet** \*gray all-over but with ruby-crowned reddish crown
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**Golden-crowned kinglet** \*kinglet with yellow crown
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**Wrentit** \*drab brown and has an long upright tail
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**Pacific Wren**
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House Wren \*drabbish brown shorter tail than Bewick's
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**Bewick's wren** \*looks like house wren but has a way longer tail
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**Marsh Wren** \*typical wren with white and black back
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**Brown Creeper** \*brown back and head with white speckles on it and a white belly (small)
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**White-breasted Nuthatch**
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**Red-breasted nuthatch** \*like a white-breasted nuthatch but with orangish reddish on belly \*black eyestripe
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**Pygmy nuthatch** \*like the whitebreasted but no eyestripe and a brownish/grayish head
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**Bushtit** \*looks like titmouse but without mohawk
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**Chestnut-backed chickadee** brown headed, white belly, gray wings with chest nut shape on back
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**Oak titmouse** \*signature mohawk
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**Cliff swallow** \*signature swallow brown spot on back and straight tail
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**Barn Swallow** \*2 signature long tail feathers
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**Violet-green swallow**
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**Common raven** \*black, thick bill and larger
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**American Crow**
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**Western Scrub Jay**
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**Steller's Jay**
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**Warbling vireo**
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**Hutton's vireo**
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**Black Pheobe** \*all black with a little tuft and a white belly