Woodpeckers, Flycatchers, and Nighthawks Flashcards
(22 cards)
beeer
pee-eet (nasal)
“Booms” with it’ wings as a mating display.
Common Nighthawk - Caprimulgiformes
Crepuscular, accomplished flyer, with wings that go well past the tail.
“Booms” with it’ wings as a mating display. Has white bards on it’s wings.
Sounds a bit like an AMWO
repeated whip poor will
Eastern Whip-poor-will - Caprimulgiformes
Likes forests more than CONI, nocturnal, not crepuscular.
They lay their eggs with the lunar cycle so they have more light foraging for babies during the full moon!
Rustier looking, with obvious gray braces on the back.
chit-chit-chit-chit (rapid staccato)
twittering (rapid)
Chimney Swift - Apodiformes
Bullets with very long wings that go past the tail. Can’t perch on branches.
Stiff, slender wings. Very dark, lighter on the throat.
Lots of chittering calls.
t-t-t-t-t-t-t (soft; rapid; excited)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Apodiformes
Our only hummingbird, incredibly territorial.
Male has a red gorget. Female does not.
stuttering; non-musical; dry rattle in-flight
Belted Kingfisher - Coraciiformes
Females have the rusty belt and are, in general, more vibrant in coloration than males.
They never shut up and have a very raspy, harsh call.
Distinctive crest and blue coloring with a white belly.
squeer; squeer (raspy)
Red-headed Woodpecker - Piciformes
Very clean looking. Likes to nest in dead trees.
Clean red, white, and black.
Sounds like the “screaming lady of the woods”. Wheezy, less vibrant sounding than RBWO.
meeew (whiny; nasal)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Piciformes
Likes conifers, and makes grid-like wells in them to collect sap. One is deep for sap, one is shallow for consistent sap weeping they like to revisit.
Females do not have red on the throat.
Kinda yellow coloration, with a backwards 7 on the face. Nasal squealing or “QUEEah”.
Sounds like screaming and trying to suck something through a blocked straw.
kleeeyer
wik-wik-wik
Northern Flicker (courting)
squeechu-squeechu-squeechu
Northern Flicker - Piciformes
Come in two flavors - yellow and red shafteds, which is based on rachis color.
Likes excavating and stuff, it’s nests are very important for other birds!
Lots of very chattery calls. “Bwirr” “wik-a’wik-a’wik”
Females do not have the dark malar stripe that the male does.
kik-kik-kik-kik-kik (rate & pitch rise then fall)
Pileated Woodpecker - Piciformes
Fucking huge with a mohawk.
Males have red malar stripes.
Lots of more chattery calls, almost sounds like a monkey.
pip-pip or pip-pip-pip
quick; three-beers
Olive-Sided Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
Big-headed and short-tailed.
Associated with recently burned forests.
“Quick, three beers!” “pik-pik-pik”. Chips in notes of three.
pee-a-weee and pee-yer
Eastern Wood-pewee - Tyrannidae
“Pe-weeeeee!!” Long, high pitched notes.
Gray and rather plain, with long wingtips.
chu-wee; chu-wee
killik
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
Kind of has an eyering. Dusky yellow colored.
Small, but wide, bill.
Two whistish wingbards and yellowish underparts from chin to belly.
pizza
Acadian Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
Common host of BHCBs. Likes mixed forests.
Explosive”peet-za!”
DO NOT NEED TO KNOW IMAGE
free beer
Alder Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
Likes scrubby habitat.
“Free beer!” or “fee-bee-o!”
fitz-bew
Willow Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
Free beer but like, sadder.
DON’T NEED TO KNOW IMAGE
chebek
Least Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
This guys’ call has the “least” to it!
“ch-BEK”, a little raspy.
DO NOT NEED TO KNOW IMAGE
fee-beee (last syllable raspy)
Eastern Phoebe - Tyrannidae
The first bird to ever be banded!
White throat and belly. Consistently bobs it’s tail.
“feee-bee! feee-beee!”
t-t-tseeep (electrical sputtering)
Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannidae
Orange-ish red colored crest, mostly hidden.
White tail-tips.
Sounds like a weird tinkling trill.
prrreeeet (burry); wheeep
Great Crested Flycatcher - Tyrannidae
Forage in canopies. Cavity nesters that use other nests.
Orangish tint to the tail and wings, with a very yellow belly.
“WEe-do. WEE-do!” looping call. Squeaky, but can be harsh.
pik (flat) whinny
Hairy Woodpecker
(Leuconotopicus villosus)
It’s trill is the same note.
No black spots on outer feathers. Longer than downy, but it can be hard to tell.
Bill is the length of it’s head. Extremely lonh and thin tongue.
churrr; churrr (throaty; deeply trilled)
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
(Melanerpes carolinus)
Red striping on head, ends just above the eye for females, but farther for males.
Lives in urban areas, deciduous areas…they are common feeder birds!
Super loud, forceful, hard and high pitched trill.
peeek (sharply) whinny
Downy Woodpecker
(Picoides pubescens)
Males have a bright patch of red on the back of the head.
Small, with a pretty short bill, half the length of the head.
Black spottinf on some outer tail feathers.
Squeaky, high-pitched calls and chirps, with the trill descending in tone.
