Catherine Hamilton has been the first to get all three species correct in the last two diabolical wood-warbler quizzes. If she gets three in a row it will show she is the best birder in the world and Felonious Jive will suffer the sad misfortune of dropping to second place.
This quiz is a diabolical to the extreme and if anyone manages all three I will be surprised. If quizzes aren’t your thing why not skip out of this post and just check out a host of images of wood-warblers taken this fall as they migrated south?
If quizzes are your thing and you think you can handle the diabolicity then please, guess away in the comments. All of these shots were taken in the last couple of weeks, each feature a wood-warbler or its shadow, and you must choose the common name of the bird in each of the three pictures.
Good luck – you’re going to need it!
Diabolical Wood-Warbler Quiz Picture 1
Diabolical Wood-Warbler Quiz Picture 2
Diabolical Wood-Warbler Quiz Picture 3
Mwahahahahahahahahahaha! Diabolical! Mwahahahahahahahaha!
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Northern Parula, Blackpoll Warbler, Common Yellowthroat
1. warbler sp.
2. warbler sp.
3. warbler sp.
1. Blue-winged Warbler
2. Blackpoll Warbler
3. Palm Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler
2 Yellow-breasted Chat
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1. Magnolia Warbler
2. Blackburnian Warbler
3. Ovenbird
Absolutely. No. Way.
The permutations go beyond my rudimentary math skills, but I’ll put my neck on the Schadenfreude chopping block anyway:
1. Magnolia Warbler (or x)
2. Black-throated Green Warbler (or x)
3. Common Yellowthroat (or x, or x)
1 Magnolia Warbler
2 Cape May Warbler
3 Common Yellowthroat
They have all been identified correctly but no one has gotten more than two.
DIABOLICAL!
If I am not mistaken, this leads to 100 different combinations (4x5x5). Thanks, corey, for being so amazingly helpful.
Here’s my next try:
1. Northern Parula
2. Cape May Warbler
3. Common Yellowthroat
OK, try #2:
1. Magnolia Warbler
2. Black-throated Green Warbler
3. Palm Warbler
Parula, Blackpoll, Palm. Interesting how much easier it is to see #2 on my work PC, which must have the brightness cranked (but is blocking me from posting).
1)Magnolia
2)Blackpoll
3)Common Yellowthroat
Try #2 for me:
1. Magnolia Warbler
2. Blackpoll Warbler
3. Common Yellowthroat
Sigh. Do I need to abase myself by hazarding a third try? Or perhaps you might put us out of our misery.
Since you did not mention it specifically in this post, are these are all in the same geographic region as previous quizzes?
1 Blackburnian Warbler
2 Black Throated Green Warbler
3 Common Yellowthroat
They are all New York and New Jersey birds. And still no better than two out of three.
Okay, third try:
Parula
Blackpoll
Common Yellowthroat
Should I just provide answers then?
No, no, I still have 97 tries!!! 🙂
My stabs in the dark.
1. Magnolia Warbler
2. Tennessee Warbler
3. American redstart.
Third try (just to be a good sport):
1. Northern Parula
2. Black-throated Green Warbler
3. Yellow-rumped Warbler
1. N Parula
2. Blackpoll
3. Palm
@everyone: Parula, Blackpoll, Yellow-rump! DIABOLICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!