Questions for Your Bird

Try to answer these questions for your bird.  It will help you remember some of the points in each chapter 

Chapter 1

• What is the Latin name of your bird?  To what family and Order does it belong?
• Does your bird have subspecies?
• Can you name another bird in the same family?
• In what biogeographical region is your bird found?

Chapter 2

• What type of habitat does your US bird prefer?
• Where would your bird be found? Does it occur in CA? Year round?
• Does your bird have any characteristic behaviors? Is it active in the day or night?

Chapter 3

• What colors are your birds?
• Do male and female differ in appearance?
• What is the chemical / physical origin of the colors?
• Does your bird have more than one annual molt?
• Does your US bird have two different (basic and alternate) plumages? If so, describe.
• Is your bird patterned or shaded to promote concealment?

 

Bird List

American Kestrel	Apostlebird
Ash-throated Flycatcher	Barred Antshrike
Bald Eagle	Southern Ground Hornbill
Band-tailed Pigeon	Bearded Manakin
Barn Owl	Blackcap
Belted Kingfisher	Brush Turkey
Brandt's Cormorant	Common Hoopoe
Brown Pelican	Dovekie
Bufflehead	Emperor Penguin
Cliff Swallow	Eurasian Eagle-Owl
Common Loon	Great Tinamou
Common Nighthawk	Greater Flamingo
Cooper's Hawk	Green Catbird
Eared Grebe	Kagu
Greater Roadrunner	Knysna Turaco
Hooded Oriole	Magnificent Riflebird
Loggerhead Shrike	Olive Sunbird
Pileated Woodpecker	Ostrich
Rufous Hummingbird	Rufous Hornero
Sandhill Crane	Saddle-billed Stork
Song Sparrow	Greater Honeyguide
Spotted Sandpiper	Scarlet Macaw
Townsend's Warbler	Wrybill
Varied Thrush	Secretary-bird
Western Tanager	Sunbittern
Wild Turkey	Superb Fairywren
Yellow-rumped Warbler	Wandering Albatross