Three mystery birds pictures taken over the last couple of months await your eyes below. So click and guess in the comments! No clicking without guessing though, no matter how outrageously off you are…and, a word to the wise, the first two are rather easy (I think) but the last one might take a field guide. And no, you won’t be getting any clues at all so don’t ask!
I actually think these might be a bit too easy so if they are gotten too quickly I’ll make the next quiz harder, maybe like Jochen’s or Patrick’s recent quizzes…
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Easy?
These are tough for sure!
Okay, here are my guesses, but they are nothing more:
1. Black-capped Chickadee
2. Greater Yellowlegs (or Lesser, but my impression is Greater)
3. American Coot
Fine, let’s turn to collecting stamps then…
1. Black-throated Green Warbler
2. Solitary Sandpiper
3. American Coot
I love quizzes!
1. BT Green Warbler
2. Greaterlegs
3. Coot
I fully expect to be wrong, especially on that middle one.
My impression is that the second is a greater yellowlegs. The legs look too yellow for solitary, and the bill looks too long for lesser. I agree with Patrick and Nathan on the other two.
Easy
I was with you for the first bird, BT Green Warbler
The second is a Lesser Yellowlegs (I’m bucking the trend here)
Third is an American Coot.
Well, but then again, the third one is a bit blurry, black with a white trailing edge to the wing.
IBWO??
IBWO?
Last I looked, they really don’t have the foot structure to run on water…
I warned you all that the third bird was harder…not a coot, and definitely not an IBWO. And Will, you were actually present for not just the first shot, but for the third as well.
The first two are, as several of you have said, a Black-throated Green Warbler and a Greater Yellowlegs.
Wood Duck
nope
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
nope. Man, I guess it is too tough. I’ll give it until Monday evening.
Okay, it actually wasn’t a bird but a remote-controlled plane with feathers glued on it.
Kidding, it’s a Pied-Billed Grebe at Montezuma. I knew when I took the shot it would be a good quiz pic because who ever sees grebes in flight?