Quiz: What American Presidents had mockingbirds as pets in the White House?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson, Retherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge. Learn more about Mockingbirds at http://tomsbirdfeeders.com/bird-feeders/mockingbirds-cool-facts/
Quiz: What is another name for the Water Ouzel?
Answer: American Dipper
Quiz: In what state do breeding Great-tailed and Boat-tailed Grackles overlap?
Answer: Texas
Quiz: Do White-throated Sparrows prefer tube or platform bird feeders?
Answer: Platform bird feeders as they are ground feeders.
Quiz: Which wood warber is well known for it’s “teacher teacher teacher” call?
Answer: Ovenbird
Quiz: What do birds possess that captures man’s imagination?
Answer: The ability to fly unaided!
Quiz: What do Red-breasted Nuthatches smear around the hole of the nest cavity?
Answer: Pine pitch (resin)
Quiz: What Brown-backed towhee of the Southwest U.S. has pale buff below and black mask?
Answer: The Abert’s Towhee
Quiz: Do wood ducks nest atop muskrat mounds?
Answer: No, wood ducks use tree cavities or nest boxes.
Quiz: What color are the feathers on a black vulture’s head?
Answer: Oh, this was a trick question! Ther are no feathers on the head.
Quiz: Which swan has an orange bill with a black knob at its base?
Answer: Mute Swan
Quiz: How old is the Bald Eagle when it becomes an adult?
Answer: At five years a male is ready to breed, but may not have adult plumage. The female usually is eight years old before they breed.
Quiz: Why do Tufted Titmice pluck hair from dogs, squirrels and other mammals?
Answer: To line their nests.
Quiz: What Gray-headed sparrow has a central breast spot, unstreaked breast, & rufous cap?
Answer: Tree Sparrow
Which owl, the smallest in the world, nests in the holes of the Saguaro Cactus?
Anwser: The Elf Owl
What time of year do Mourning Doves nest?
Answer: All year long.
Which Southwest United States sparrow has an unstreaked breast, very black triangular throat patch, and a white eye stripe and whisker?
Answer: The Black-throated Sparrow
Which finch resembles a minature Meadowlark and sings its name?
Answer: The Dicksissel
In what part of a tree do Townsend’s Warblers spent their time?
Answer: In the tree tops ( a major cause of warbler neck!)
What hawk genius likes to soar and has broad-banned tails and rounded wings?
Answer: The Buteos
Which family of birds frequently flies in formations similar to gees but is strangely silent?
Answer: Cormorants
Which Southwestern flycatcher maleis vivid red with a black back, nape and wings?
Answer: The Vermilion Flycatcher
What large conspicuous wren of the southwestern U.S. has a heavily spotted breast, a streaked back and a barred tail?
Answer: The Cactus Wren
Which Southeastern U.S. nuthatch has a rown cap and prefers loblolly pines?
Answer: The Brown-headed Nuthatch
Which Buteo migrates in large flocks called kettles and has broad bands on its tail?
Answer: The Broad-winged Hawk
What Southwestern Vireo is easily confused with the Bell’s Vireo except for its gray rump and living is a drier habatat?
Answer: The Gray Vireo
Which U. S. finch is the only bird with red underparts and a blue head?
Answer: The Painted Bunting
What yellow-throated warbler has a broad white tail patches?
Answer: The Magmolia Warbler
What jay is named for the food it eats?
Answer: The Pinyon Jay
What is the largest member of the nightjar family in NA?
Answer: The Chuck-will’s-widow
Whick grosbeaks are gray with an olive head and rump?
Answer: The female Pine Grosbeak- did I catch any of you with this one?
10/28/2009
Which grosbeak has a long tail, is overall red with dark wings and bills?
Answer: The male Pine Grosbeak
10/27/2009
Quiz: What birds of prey have short rounded wings, long tails, eat birds & different species in family overlap in size?
Answer: The Accipiters
10/26/2009
What east U.S. thrush has a rusty-brown back, white eye ring, white below with large dark spots?
Answer: Wood Thrush
10/25/2009
Quiz: Which head bobbing, gray-backed, wren has rdish rump and tail, builds nest in rocky areas?
Answer: Rock Wren
10/23/2009
Quiz: What owl is mostly white and hunts by day?
Answer: The Snowy Owl
10/22/ 2009
Quiz: What warbler has yellow crown, black eye stripe and whisker, white underneath and chestnut flanks?
Answer: The Chestnut-sided Warbler
10/21/ 2009
Quiz: What is the only Empidonax Flycatcher to pump it’s tail downwards?
Answer: The Gray Flycatcher
10/20/2009
Quiz: Which duck resembles the female Black duck, but has a greener speculum bordered in black?
Answer: The Mottled Duck
10/19/2009
Quiz: Which dabbler is gray with a white belly, black tail coverts, and chestnut in it’s wings?
Answer: The Gadwall
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