Worldwide Photo Quiz (1 Viewer)

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 24, 2007

• #1

This quiz is for the well travelled or those with lots of fieldguides. Five different species taken on five different continents. Your aim is to correctly identify all five.

Good luck

 

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StuartReeves

Local rarity

• Nov 24, 2007

• #2

In order, I think they are Africa, South America, Europe, Australia and North America.

 

StuartReeves

Local rarity

• Nov 24, 2007

• #3

Oh, you mean the birds, that's not so easy...
Spot-breasted Plover
Andean lapwing
Ringed Plover
Red-capped Plover
Snowy Plover

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 24, 2007

• #4

StuartReeves said:

Oh, you mean the birds, that's not so easy...
Spot-breasted Plover
Andean lapwing
Ringed Plover
Red-capped Plover
Snowy Plover

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Not bad four out of five.

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 24, 2007

• #5

Spot-breasted Plover
Andean lapwing
Ringed Plover
Red-capped Plover
Malaysian Plover

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 24, 2007

• #6

Tim Allwood said:

Spot-breasted Plover
Andean lapwing
Ringed Plover
Red-capped Plover
Malaysian Plover

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Well done Tim. The next five are a bit harder I think.

 

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Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 26, 2007

• #7

No takers on the latest set? Here's a bit of help, in order they were taken in South America, Australia, Europe, Africa and Asia.

 

teamsaint

Well-known member

• Nov 26, 2007

• #8

1. Dark Chanting/Gabar Goshawk
2: falcon
3: Sparrowhawk
4: bird
5: bird

 

razorsharp

For the Laugh

• Nov 26, 2007

• #9

Wild guesseS:
1-Roadside Hawk
2-Brown Falcon
3-Eurasian Sparrowhawk
4-Augur Buzzard
5-?????

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 27, 2007

• #10

teamsaint said:

1. Dark Chanting/Gabar Goshawk
2: falcon
3: Sparrowhawk
4: bird
5: bird

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I will give you 1.5 out of 5, no marks for "bird".

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 27, 2007

• #11

razorsharp said:

Wild guesseS:
1-Roadside Hawk
2-Brown Falcon
3-Eurasian Sparrowhawk
4-Augur Buzzard
5-?????

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Now we are getting there 3 out of 5.

 

razorsharp

For the Laugh

• Nov 27, 2007

• #12

Any tips???

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 28, 2007

• #13

razorsharp said:

Any tips???

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We are still looking for the South American and Asian birds, the Asian is an immature. That is enough of a clue without giving the answers away.

 

halftwo

Wird Batcher

• Nov 28, 2007

• #14

No.5 : a Baza of some sort - which I don't know.(?)

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Nov 29, 2007

• #15

halftwo said:

No.5 : a Baza of some sort - which I don't know.(?)

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No.

Another clue on number 5 it is found all the way from Nepal to the Philippines.

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Dec 1, 2007

• #16

Here is an additional phot of number 5 in flight, see if this helps.

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Dec 1, 2007

• #17

Crane Hawk for the SA raptor?

 

Xenospiza

Distracted

• Dec 1, 2007

• #18

1. Hook-billed Kite seems to come closest (some depict it with yellow, some with red eyes...)
5. Rufous-bellied Eagle

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Dec 1, 2007

• #19

Tim Allwood said:

Crane Hawk for the SA raptor?

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Well done, it is a Crane Hawk.

 

Mark Harper

World Birder

• Dec 1, 2007

• #20

Xenospiza said:

1. Hook-billed Kite seems to come closest (some depict it with yellow, some with red eyes...)
5. Rufous-bellied Eagle

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Rufous-bellied Eagle completes the set of five. Congratulations.

Anyone fancy a set of five Rallids next?