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St. George Photo Quiz

posted by Jeff Bilsky at
on Friday, March 8, 2013 

Tim Avery and I went down to St. George a couple of weeks ago. He posted a great recap. Kenny Frisch also posted his own adventures from the week before. So now it's my turn. I'm going to do it a little differently. I've been going through my photos and realized how many terrible angle, "uncooperative" bird shots I was able to compile. So as my recap, here is a photo quiz. This should be a fun one I hope. Please post your answers in the comments. Good luck and good birding!

#1

#2 - a flock flying over the desert

#3

#4: If you can find it

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9, #10, #11: there are 3 species in this photo


#12 

#13 

#14 and #15

#16

#17

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8 Comments:
Blogger Mia McPherson said...

I gave it a try, some of the one that I can not make out the images don't enlarge.

1. Ruddy Duck
2. American White Pelicans
3. Western Bluebird
4. Chipping Sparrow
5. European Starling
6. Northern Harrier?
7. Dark-eyed Junco
8. Green-winged Teal
9. Canada Goose
10. Northern Shoveler
11. Greater White-fronted Goose
12. Red-tailed Hawk?
13. Mountain Bluebird
14. Can't tell
15. Can't tell
16. White-crowned Sparrow
17. Not sure

March 9, 2013 at 11:26 AM  
Blogger Tim Avery said...

I would answer, but since I was there I have an unfair advantage on several of the tougher ones.

March 9, 2013 at 3:22 PM  
Blogger Stephanie Greenwood said...

1. Ruddy Duck
2. Snow Geese
3. Western Bluebird
4. Chipping Sparrow
5. Anna's Hummingbird
6. Sharp-shunned Hawk
7. Dark-eyed Junco
8. Green-winged Teal
9. Canada Goose
10. Northern Shoveler
11. Greater white-fronted goose
12. Northern Harrier
13. Mountain Bluebird
14. Harris's Sparrow
15. Lincoln's sparrow
16 white crowned sparrow
17. Northern Harrier

March 9, 2013 at 5:33 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

1. Ruddy Duck
2. Snow Geese
3. Western Bluebird
4. Chipping Sparrow
5. Anna's Hummingbird?? Not sure on this one. Hard to judge its size.
6. Ferruginous Hawk? (light morph)
7. Black Pheobe
8. Green-winged Teal
9. Canada Goose
10. Greater White-fronted Goose
11. Northern Shovelor
12. Peregrine Falcon
13. Mountain Bluebird
14. Harris' Sparrow
15. White-throated Sparrow
16. White-crowned Sparrow
17. Merlin

March 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM  
Blogger Stephanie Greenwood said...

Yeah, I agree with Kendall, #17 Merlin

March 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM  
Blogger Kenny Frisch said...

1. Ruddy Duck
2. Snow Geese
3. Western Bluebird
4. Chipping Sparrow
5. Anna's Hummingbird
6. Northern Harrier?
7. Black Phoebe
8. Green-winged Teal
9. Canada Goose
10. Northern Shoveler
11. Greater White-fronted Goose
12. Peregrine Falcon
13. Mountain Bluebird
14. Harris's Sparrow
15. White-throated Sparrow
16 White-crowned Sparrow
17. Merlin (Prairie)

March 10, 2013 at 9:46 AM  
Blogger Jeff Bilsky said...

This has been fun to watch. Thanks to everyone who has taken a shot at it. I'll leave it up a couple of more days for guesses and post the answers soon.

March 10, 2013 at 8:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1. Ruddy Duck
2. Snow Goose
3. Western Bluebird
4. Chipping Sparrow
5. Anna's Hummingbird
6. Cooper's Hawk
7. Black Phoebe
8. Green-winged Teal
9. Canada Goose
10. Northern Shoveler
11. Great White-fronted Goose
12. Peregrine Falcon
13. Mountain Bluebird
14. Harris Sparrow
15. Lincoln Sparrow
16. White-crowned Sparrow
17. Merlin

Yikes, some of these were total guesses. Thanks Jeff.

Rachel LeBlanc

March 15, 2013 at 7:10 PM  

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