Timbirdboy and Bebirder's Birding Trivia Quiz

[bebirder]

Hello everyone,

Timbirdboy, Storm-Petrel, and I are starting a quiz about birding, rather thank ID of secific species. We will take turns asking questions about birding sites and other things about birds in general. Each question will be worth 10 points, and bonuses are worth 5. We will keep a score table up to see whose winning.


Our first question (10 points): Name two birds in the ABA are whose scientific species name in Jamacensis.

Bonus (+5): name a third species with that scientific name

Alright, start guessing!

[birderbf]

Buteo jamacensis is one (that's Red-tailed Hawk). Also Oxyura jamacensis (Ruddy Duck). And then for the bonus: Black Rail (Laterallus jamacensis)!

[B.C. Birder]

Buteo jamacensis (Red-Tailed Hawk)

Oxyura jamaicensis (Ruddy Duck)

Laterallus jamaicensis (Black Rail)

Are those right?

BC

[B.C. Birder]

Ahh, you beat me by two minutes! Since I never saw what bf wrote (since I was posting, does my score still count?

BC

[bebirder]

Both of you got them all right, but since birderbf beat BC Birder, he wins the 15 points, tim will post the second quiz.

[tim.birdboy]

Okay, congratulations to Storm-Petrel, the correct answer is Red-tailed Hawk and Ruddy Duck! And the answer to the bonus question is: Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)

EDIT: Haha, sorry, incorrect, BirderBF wins!

Okay, next question is:

Describe a bird's patagium

If you answer correctly, you will get 10 points. No bonus on this one

[B.C. Birder]

Its skin in which the bones and feathers of a bird's wing are embedded?

BC

[Mad_BMS]

This is an expandable membranous fold of skin between the wing and body of a bird.

[birderbf]

I do belive that that is the skin that extends from the body to the first digit of the wing, forming the leading edge of the wing.

[B.C. Birder]

Did I get the right answer? I answered first.

BC

[Storm-Petrel]

I think Mad_BMS got it more correctly described than you, but ill let tim decide

[tim.birdboy]

BirderBF gave the most accurate guess, so he wins! Mad_BMS was close, but it isn't just any membrane that attaches the wing to the body, here's the correct answer:

In birds, the fold of skin extending from the humerus to the carpal joint, making up the leading edge of the wing.


Storm-Petrel, you're up!

[Storm-Petrel]

Okay, here goes:

Name the 5 different arrangements of bird feet.

As a bonus name the one bird that only has two toes

[birderbf]

Anisodactyl, zygodactyl, heterodactyl, syndactyl, and pamprodactyl, and Ostrich!

[Storm-Petrel]

Birderbf, good job!!! :t: :clap: :clap: I think you are beating everyone by 40 points!!!!!!! now it is BCbirders turn!!!!!

[B.C. Birder]

Ok, I thought it was a fitting first question from me since I'm from BC.

Name all the Grebes and Teals that can be found in BC (not including any real accidentals, like the Baikal Teal for example)?

BC

[Storm-Petrel]

just bumping this up!!!

[tim.birdboy]

Well, no one else is answering, so, even though it is my quiz, can I answer, B.C. Birder?

[birderbf]

Pied-billed, Horned, Eared, Red-necked and Western Grebes.

Blue-winged, Green-winged and Cinnamon Teal.

[Storm-Petrel]

Well, no one else is answering, so, even though it is my quiz, can I answer, B.C. Birder?

that wouldnt be fair cuz i pmd BC with the answer more than an hour ago!!! i really want to put the answer out, but its just wierd to me cuz its our quiz... but im not keeping you from doing anything, do what u want to!

[Storm-Petrel]

for once birderbf is wrong!!!!!!!!

[B.C. Birder]

Pied-billed, Horned, Eared, Red-necked and Western Grebes.

Blue-winged, Green-winged and Cinnamon Teal.

Wrong, keep trying;)

BC

[birderbf]

What, are you counting Northern Shoevelor as a teal? Or are you coutning Clark's Grebe, a rare wanderer up that far?

[B.C. Birder]

What, are you counting Northern Shoevelor as a teal? Or are you coutning Clark's Grebe, a rare wanderer up that far?

I can't tell you that;) Just keep guessing, but your on the right track......

BC

[birderbf]

Ok add Clark's Grebe to my list.

[Storm-Petrel]

still wrong.

as a hint: study bird defenitions and terms


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[birderbf]

still wrong.

as a hint: study bird defenitions and terms


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What, there's some sort of trick in here? Like some duck has an alter-ego of teal?

[bebirder]

getting close...

[Storm-Petrel]

:brains: :brains: 3:-) think carefully...

[Birdingcraft]

I suppose one cannot count Garganey?

[birderbf]

I suppose one cannot count Garganey?

That must be too rare, because I almost saw what was suspected to be a Garganey in Vancouver (I don't think it was every confirmed though).

Baikal Teal is way too rare, and although Northern Shoveler is very closely related to teals, it's a shovelor. I belive Falcated Teal is also a close relative, but there we go again - too rare.

[Storm-Petrel]

hint: no baikal teal or 234G46A371R986G853865A76475N098E234Y456

[B.C. Birder]

Your correct with all the grebes. Now you have to get all the teals right (hint: the other species you need to get do not have teal in their name).

BC

[Storm-Petrel]

bumpin it up again!

[birderbf]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm seeing something now..........

Well, not really.....

[birderbf]

Your correct with all the grebes. Now you have to get all the teals right (hint: the other species you need to get do not have teal in their name).

BC

Wait, then are they still teals?

[B.C. Birder]

Wait, then are they still teals?

In a way yes. The other bird's latin names start with 'A'.

BC

[Storm-Petrel]

birderbf, are u the only one playing this?

[birderbf]

birderbf, are u the only one playing this?

Looks like it.

OK a is for .. Anas?

[Storm-Petrel]

just guess the answer again, no more hints, u know enough :)

[birderbf]

Northern Shoveler? I mean , I've only said it about three times...

[Storm-Petrel]

urggg u dont get it !!!!! ;). look at your post #39 to get the answer.

[birderbf]

urggg u dont get it !!!!! ;). look at your post #39 to get the answer.

Anas. Ta-dah. What do you want the latin names??


Well I'm going to be on a leave of absence for a few days, so someone else can figure it out...

[Storm-Petrel]

no! but look in your Field guide. anas. anas. anas. anas...

[Storm-Petrel]

Ill just give you the hint. teals do not nessecarily have to have the word "teal" in their name. anas, think anas! {:-{p like my smilei?

[B.C. Birder]

If no one can get this question in the next FIVE hours I will tell everyone the answer.

BC

[prairiemerlin]

Wood Duck?? It's latin name starts with an "A" (Aix). It's not an Anas... I really have no idea...

neil

[Storm-Petrel]

sorry, neil, but wrong too!! HINT: look on pages 82, 84, and 85 in sibleys.

[B.C. Birder]

Less then two hours!!!

BC

[prairiemerlin]

GAAAHHHH my Sibley is packed away deep in some box in the garage....

Hmm.... could you be counting the Eurasian form of Green-winged Teal? It's not considered a separate species by the AOU, but where it occurs it is considered a separate species. I would think it would be rare it BC tho...

neil g.

[prairiemerlin]

Northern Pintail?

[prairiemerlin]

American Wigeon?

[prairiemerlin]

Eurasian Wigeon?

[prairiemerlin]

Northern Shoveler?

[prairiemerlin]

Gadwall?

[prairiemerlin]

Mallard?

[Storm-Petrel]

prariemerlins got the idea!!!!! 10 points to him

[Storm-Petrel]

now brents turn again!

[bebirder]

Thanks S-p, the next quiz might be a little harder. Here It is:

What lake in Newfoundland is considered one of the best (if not the best) places to see Yellow-legged Gulls in North America, with a couple wintering there every year?

no bonus on this one

[prairiemerlin]

Quidi Vidi Lake?

[bebirder]

Neil got it, its Quidi Vidi Lake, NF. Looks like I'm going to have to make the next quiz a little harder. Tim's turn!

[tim.birdboy]

Hmm, okay! Now, this is a true or false question, so, if the the first answer is incorrect, it will be Storm-Petrel's turn again. Anyways, here is the question:

True or False - the keel is a bone

No cheating! (i.e. no Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, MWAHAHA)

[B.C. Birder]

Just bumping this up.

BC

[ayasuda]

It's true

[Storm-Petrel]

it is actually cartilage. my turn!!!

which part of the denali highway is better for seeing common loons: the western or the eastern?

[prairiemerlin]

Eastern!

random guess...

[Storm-Petrel]

i see that "random guess" that u wrote, and its wrong. now we just wait for
someone to come along and say western, and theyll get 10 points!!!!!!

[prairiemerlin]

umm... western?

[Storm-Petrel]

right!!!!!!! now its BCs turn. is anyone else gonna play this besides prariemerlin???

[B.C. Birder]

In the North West of North America, in general what is the easiest bird to hand feed (not including mallards or anything like that)?

Bonus point: name three other species of birds that can be hand fed relatively easy (not including any water fowl)?

BC

[birderbf]

Black-capped Chickadee, and also Carolina Chickadee (and other chickadees), Tufted Titmice, Northern Cardinals

[prairiemerlin]

Nuthatches (particularly Red-breasted), in my experience, are fairly easy to hand tame as well...

neil g.

[B.C. Birder]

birderbf gets it right! Its B-C Chickadee.

The other three are the Mountain Chickadee, RB Nuthatch, and the WB Nuthatch.

BC

[Birdingcraft]

Gray Jay
3 others: Black capped Chickadee, Carolina Chickadee and Clarks Nutcracker

[Storm-Petrel]

bebirders turn again

[bebirder]

Okay, this is going to be a hard one:

On which islands off the coast of Louisiana did Kelp Gulls hybridize with Herring Gulls in the early 90's?

and as a bonus: write the name of this combination

[birderbf]

Okay, this is going to be a hard one:

On which islands off the coast of Louisiana did Kelp Gulls hybridize with Herring Gulls in the early 90's?

and as a bonus: write the name of this combination

Just needed a little spark since I'd forgotten the islands- names (Chandeluer), and for the second part I was seriously thinking of putting Cajun Gull, Kerring Gull, or Help Gull, but Google (no no, not the search engine! A good ornithology expert I happen to know) says it's incredibly called... Chandeleur Gull! Flabbergasting, eh?

[bebirder]

Correct

tims turn

[tim.birdboy]

Okay, here's one for 10 points:

This species is usually found in extreme Southern Texas, but was reported in Central Nebraska in the 60s and 70s.

And a bonus for 3 points: Name all the parrot species reported in Nebraska

[B.C. Birder]

Bumping this up lol

BC

[prairiemerlin]

Cave Swallow!

[tim.birdboy]

Nope, not a Cave Swallow!

[birderbf]

Groove-billed Ani? Totally random guess there.

[tim.birdboy]

Correct, birderbf! The answer is Groove-billed Ani. And just to clarify, the sightings were in the 50s and 70s, not the 60s and 70s. ;-)

Anybody for the bonus?? If not, it's Storm-Petrel's turn...

[birderbf]

Correct, birderbf! The answer is Groove-billed Ani. And just to clarify, the sightings were in the 50s and 70s, not the 60s and 70s. ;-)

Anybody for the bonus?? If not, it's Storm-Petrel's turn...

Wow! I can't believe that was right. Fpr the bonus: Monk and Green Parakeets and Peach-faced Lovebird (just another random guess).

[tim.birdboy]

Sorry! The correct answer to the bonus is:

Carolina Parakeet!

HAHA, trick question. They are the only parrot species recorded in NE, as far as I know.

[birderbf]

Sorry! The correct answer to the bonus is:

Carolina Parakeet!

HAHA, trick question. They are the only parrot species recorded in NE, as far as I know.

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[Storm-Petrel]

okay here goes...

which city in alaska is most reliable for bristle-thighed curlew?

for 5bonus points: name 6 non-bird animals that can be found in denali national park

[B.C. Birder]

Bumping this up lol

CL

[birderbf]

OK random guess...
Nome?

Grizzly Bear, Caribou, Meadow Jumping Mouse, Meadow Vole, Northern Bog Lemming, Water Shew, Pygmy Shrew, Cinerous Shrew, Silver-haired Bat, Gray Wolf, Short-tailed Weasel (Ermine), Least Weasel, Northern Rive Otter, American Mink, Common Muskrat, American Beaver, North American Porupine, Hoary Marmot, Red Squirrel.... is that six?

[Storm-Petrel]

uuummmmmm... your right, it is nome!!!

but the bonus question was six and some of those cant be found there. heres the main ones:
grizzly bear
black bear
caribou
moose
gray wolf
Dall's sheep

[birderbf]

uuummmmmm... your right, it is nome!!!

but the bonus question was six and some of those cant be found there. heres the main ones:
grizzly bear
black bear
caribou
moose
gray wolf
Dall's sheep

What did I mention that couldn't be found there? I forgot to put Moose and Black Bear, and didn't know that Dall's Sheep were there.