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Quiz about More Birds We Have Seen in the Eastern US
Quiz about More Birds We Have Seen in the Eastern US

More Birds We Have Seen in the Eastern US Quiz


This is another quiz on more wild birds we have seen in the eastern US, mostly around Ohio and West Virginia but elsewhere also. Have you seen these too?

A multiple-choice quiz by littlepup. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
littlepup
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
384,485
Updated
Jun 03 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
500
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 142 (8/10), Guest 72 (6/10), Guest 173 (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. What black bird with russet red side-patches scratches at the ground and reminds you to "Drink your tea-ee-ee-ee"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What small, slate-gray, bird seems more noticeable in winter, picking seeds off the snowy ground, either because it has come south to winter, or other birds have left and gone further south? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. This magnificent bird is hard to miss. What raptor has a bright white head and tail, while the rest of the body is dark? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What owl doesn't live up to its name, when it comes to calls? You'd think it would give a horrifying scream, but instead it gives a soft sort of descending trill. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What little blue bird is even more blue than the bluebird? The male is covered with irridescent blue feathers all over except for darker wings, during breeding season. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Another blue bird; this one is unique. What bird is blue mixed with white and gray, with a blue crest, and is loud, aggressive, and able to chase away cats, small dogs and other birds? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What bird's name is appropriate, as it talks from the treetops to anyone who will listen, with a variety of whistles, squawks, squeaks and the occasional imitation? Even with bright yellow over its front, it's more often heard than seen. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What little winter visitor, related to the chickadee, has gray-blue coloring and a crest to match? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What bird is rarely seen, but often heard, with its "ca ca cal calp calp calp" ringing from tree to tree before a rain? Its other name is rain crow, because it supposedly predicts summer storms, though it's brown above and white below, looking nothing like a crow. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What black and white speckled woodpecker is the smallest that you'll see in the eastern half of North America?
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1. What black bird with russet red side-patches scratches at the ground and reminds you to "Drink your tea-ee-ee-ee"?

Answer: towhee

The robin-sized towhee used to be called the "ground robin" by country people, because of its reddish sides and habit of sorting through leaves on the ground. One range map says it should winter along the Ohio River, but apparently there's some variation, because when we lived near the river, the return of the towhees scratching in the undergrowth and giving one of their several calls, including chewink or tow-hee, was a happy sign of spring.
2. What small, slate-gray, bird seems more noticeable in winter, picking seeds off the snowy ground, either because it has come south to winter, or other birds have left and gone further south?

Answer: snowbird or junco

The snowbird is aptly named. It winters from Ohio and Virginia south, entertaining listeners with its variable, melodic songs. There are numerous closely related species, all called snowbirds, predominantly in shades of gray with various white patches.
3. This magnificent bird is hard to miss. What raptor has a bright white head and tail, while the rest of the body is dark?

Answer: bald eagle

The national symbol of the USA is making a comeback. Though still not plentiful, bald eagles were removed from the list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in 2007, in the lower 48 states. Some areas have a breeding pair who are given names and watched fondly by local residents.
4. What owl doesn't live up to its name, when it comes to calls? You'd think it would give a horrifying scream, but instead it gives a soft sort of descending trill.

Answer: screech owl

Screech owls are small brownish owls in mottled colors, well camouflaged, and even harder to see because they're nocturnal, so they're rarely out in the daytime. They have ear tufts and yellow eyes, unremarkable in appearance among the various eastern North American owls.

Their nests are generally in tree cavities well above human head level. Their call is what makes them stand out, and I love to hear the ghostly little trill.
5. What little blue bird is even more blue than the bluebird? The male is covered with irridescent blue feathers all over except for darker wings, during breeding season.

Answer: indigo bunting

Female indigo buntings are brown, as are male ones in the winter. In summer, the male puts on its fancy plumage and can be seen in areas similar to where the bluebird perches--fields, farmland, open woods. The male will alight on a high location and sing a complex song of paired notes, gradually descending in pitch.

The birds eat both seeds and berries, as well as caterpillars and other insects, though the young are fed mostly insects to give them more protein, until they can graduate to adding less nutritionally dense seeds and berries.
6. Another blue bird; this one is unique. What bird is blue mixed with white and gray, with a blue crest, and is loud, aggressive, and able to chase away cats, small dogs and other birds?

Answer: bluejay

Bluejays, with their raucous cries, will gang up on anything they perceive as an interloper in their territory and chase it away. Cats can get dive bombed, beak first, by a crowd of angry bluejays. During happier times, bluejays have a surprising variety of songs and whistles, sometimes imitating the cry of the red shouldered hawk.

There is debate on why, but it may be to scare other birds away from food. Jays also have the intelligence of crows and other birds in the corvid family, being able to use tools to get food in experiments set up to test them.
7. What bird's name is appropriate, as it talks from the treetops to anyone who will listen, with a variety of whistles, squawks, squeaks and the occasional imitation? Even with bright yellow over its front, it's more often heard than seen.

Answer: yellow breasted chat

The yellow breasted chat is the largest New World warbler and may even be miscategorized and not actually a warbler, but that's what it is for now, according to scientists. It lives in abandoned farmland and along fields, and is declining somewhat due to habitat loss, but is currently not at any risk. Chats protect their nests, so cowbirds don't take advantage of them, and they have an abundant food supply, eating anything from caterpillars to seeds.
8. What little winter visitor, related to the chickadee, has gray-blue coloring and a crest to match?

Answer: tufted titmouse

The tufted titmouse often shows up at birdfeeders in winter. Despite seeming like a polite little songbird, it can be aggressive, lining its nests with animal hair sometimes taken directly from the living animal too quickly to notice. The titmouse will carefully maneuver itself around smaller birds to take the largest and best seeds at a feeder, and has been known to create a stash of seeds before the start of winter, usually with the hulls removed, within 150 feet of a bountiful location like a feeder, though chickadees do this also.

The titmouse has various sounds and is talkative, often singing "peter-peter-peter."
9. What bird is rarely seen, but often heard, with its "ca ca cal calp calp calp" ringing from tree to tree before a rain? Its other name is rain crow, because it supposedly predicts summer storms, though it's brown above and white below, looking nothing like a crow.

Answer: yellow billed cuckoo

The yellow-billed cuckoo has one other related species overlapping its range, the black-billed cuckoo, and you can guess how to tell them apart. The yellow billed ones are more apt to be heard, though, especially as the skies darken and a breeze picks up, indicating rain. Unlike the European and Asian cuckoo, the North American cuckoo rarely lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

The cowbird is more likely to do that in the USA.
10. What black and white speckled woodpecker is the smallest that you'll see in the eastern half of North America?

Answer: downy woodpecker

Only the male has a red spot on the back of its head, but otherwise, both males and females appear similar, sporting black backs and wings speckled with white, and a white stomach overall. The downy woodpecker can live in the forest, but will also come to parks, large backyards and suet feeders.
Source: Author littlepup

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