Passerines

Question 1

Answer 1

House Sparrow

*traditional sparrow but with a lot of a gray

Question 2

Answer 2

Lesser Goldfinch

*like the american goldfinch but much more gray on back

Question 3

Answer 3

House Finch

*red face and chest with gray body

Question 4

Answer 4

Brown-head Cowbird

Question 5

Answer 5

Brewer’s Blackbird

*yellow eyes and irridescent body

Question 6

Answer 6

Red-winged blackbird

*red epilettes

Question 7

Answer 7

Great-tailed Grackle

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

Question 8

Answer 8

Western Meadowlark

Question 9

Answer 9

Bullocks Oriole

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

Question 10

Answer 10

Blackheaded Grosbeak

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

Question 11

Answer 11

Northern Cardinal

Question 12

Answer 12

Painted Bunting

Question 13

Answer 13

Lazuli Bunting

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

Question 14

Answer 14

Western Tanager

*red face, yellow belly, and gray back

Question 15

Answer 15

Golden Crowned Sparrow

*typical sparrow but with yellow on the head

Question 16

Answer 16

White-crowned Sparrow

Question 17

Answer 17

Dark-eyed Junco

*black head and brown body

Question 18

Answer 18

Song sparrow

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

Question 19

Answer 19

Fox sparrow

*like song but with full speckle on belly

Question 20

Answer 20

Savannah Sparrow

*like a typical sparrow BUT yellow eyebrows

Question 21

Answer 21

Spotted Towhee

Question 22

Answer 22

California Towhee

*like a spotted towhee but all drab and brown

Question 23

Answer 23

Wilson’s warbler

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

Question 24

Answer 24

Common yellowthroat

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

Question 25

Answer 25

Yellow-rumped Warbler

*Gray body but has a little yellow stripe on top of head and

has a little yellow on its rump

Question 26

Answer 26

Townsend’s Warbler

*yellow warbler but with “black glasses”

Question 27

Answer 27

yellow warbler

Question 28

Answer 28

Orange-crowned warbler

*just like yellow warbler but with an orange crown

Question 29

Answer 29

Cedar Waxwing

Question 30

Answer 30

European Starling

*irridescent black with white speckles all over

Question 31

Answer 31

California Thrasher

*Brown bird with long curved beak

Question 32

Answer 32

Northern Mockingbird

*ombre gray from light–>dark

with white wing bar

Question 33

Answer 33

*Hermit thrush

*drab brown back and head with white belly and speckled top of chest but white belly

Question 34

Answer 34

American Robin

Question 35

Answer 35

Varied Thrush

*black eyestripe and black neck ring with orange face and belly

and gray back

Question 36

Answer 36

Western Bluebird

*all blue with little brown flanks

Question 37

Answer 37

Ruby-crowned kinglet

*gray all-over but with ruby-crowned

reddish crown

Question 38

Answer 38

Golden-crowned kinglet

*kinglet with yellow crown

Question 39

Answer 39

Wrentit

*drab brown and has an long upright tail

Question 40

Answer 40

Pacific Wren

Question 41

Answer 41

House Wren

*drabbish brown shorter tail than Bewick’s

Question 42

Answer 42

Bewick’s wren

*looks like house wren but has a way longer tail

Question 43

Answer 43

Marsh Wren

*typical wren with white and black back

Question 44

Answer 44

Brown Creeper

*brown back and head with white speckles on it and a white belly

(small)

Question 45

Answer 45

White-breasted Nuthatch

Question 46

Answer 46

Red-breasted nuthatch

*like a white-breasted nuthatch but with orangish reddish on belly

*black eyestripe

Question 47

Answer 47

Pygmy nuthatch

*like the whitebreasted but no eyestripe and a brownish/grayish head

Question 48

Answer 48

Bushtit

*looks like titmouse but without mohawk

Question 49

Answer 49

Chestnut-backed chickadee

brown headed, white belly, gray wings with chest nut shape on back

Question 50

Answer 50

Oak titmouse

*signature mohawk

Question 51

Answer 51

Cliff swallow

*signature swallow brown spot on back and straight tail

Question 52

Answer 52

Barn Swallow

*2 signature long tail feathers

Question 53

Answer 53

Violet-green swallow

Question 54

Answer 54

Common raven

*black, thick bill and larger

Question 55

Answer 55

American Crow

Question 56

Answer 56

Western Scrub Jay

Question 57

Answer 57

Steller’s Jay

Question 58

Answer 58

Warbling vireo

Question 59

Answer 59

Hutton’s vireo

Question 60

Answer 60

Black Pheobe

*all black with a little tuft and a white belly