What Bird Am I? Online Quiz | Animals

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1. I am the smallest bird of my species. The juvenile of my species looks nearly the same as the adult version of my species, but the juvenile's head is a bit of a lighter shade of gray. My scientific name is "Riparia riparia." What bird am I?

Answer: Bank swallow

Some more facts about the bank swallow are that it is one of the few passerines with nearly worldwide distribution. A passerine is a perching bird or a songbird. The adult's upperparts are brown, and their underparts are a clean white with a distinct brown breast band. Their tails are also a tiny bit forked.

2. I am medium sized for my type, and I have a skinny body and narrowed tail. I am the most common and widespread of my species in North America. My wings make a fluttering whistle when I fly. What bird am I?

Answer: mourning dove

The mourning dove's scientific name is "Zenaida macroura." Mourning doves' heads and underparts are unmarked, pale, and a pinkish-brown color. The adult male and female versions are similar, but the male is iridescent with blue and pink on the hind neck. The female has less iridescence and a pinkish bloom.

3. I am the largest of my group, and I'm heard more often than seen, even though I'm only threatened. My kind usually forages in the open near marshes or in road-side ditches. In spring and summer, the parents of my type go out in the open with their downy chicks behind. What bird am I?

Answer: king rail

The king rail's scientific name is "Rallus elegans." They fly with their legs dangling, and then drop into vegetation. The male and female adult are similar when it comes to plumage, but the male is generally larger than the female. Their bills are long with yellowish-orange bases, and their eyes are orange-brown colored.

4. Benjamin Franklin had wanted me to be the national bird of the United States of America, but I was not chosen. My head is naked, and the female adult of my species is smaller than the male. I eat berries, nuts, acorns, seeds, and insects. What bird am I?

Answer: wild turkey

The wild turkey's scientific name is "Meleagris gallopavo." Unlike the barnyard turkey, they have a rusty colored tail instead of white tail tips. Male wild turkeys have wattles that are bluish-red. Their bodies look bronze-colored, and they are iridescent. They also have a prominent "beard" on their breast.

5. I am a medium-sized bird with a large head. I easily land on and take off from flat ground. The name of my breed shows what area I live around. I walk with a hunched posture. My scientific name is "Fratercula arctica." What bird am I?

Answer: Atlantic puffin

The upper-parts of the Atlantic puffin are blackish with a lighter colored facial "disk." They have a black neck collar, and their underparts are immaculate white. The breeding adult has the more colorful bill and a whiter face. Atlantic puffins are also very agile.

While standing on the ground they are erect and on their toes, rather than on tarsi, (which is a type of ankle bone on birds) like most large auks.

6. My kind lives in aspen and western conifer forests. I am notable for my extreme sexual dimorphism, which means that you can easily tell the difference between the male and female genders of my species. My scientific name is "Sphyrapicus thyroideus." What bird am I?

Answer: Williamson's sapsucker

Williamson's sapsucker adult males are largely black with a white bottom. Their bottoms have white eye and mustache-looking stripes. The adult females have gray-brown heads and black backs with fine pale grayish tan bars. Females, unlike the males, have no white wing patch. They live in and west of central Colorado and Wyoming.

7. I am one of the easier raptors for a beginning birder to identify, with a unique combination of shape, pattern, size, and even voice. My species are almost exclusively fish-eaters, capturing them by plunging into the water, either from a long glide or after hovering over the water. My feet have hooked talons on large toes with some rough spots that allow a simpler grip on a slippery fish. What bird am I?

Answer: osprey

Ospreys are often known as the "fish hawk." Its scientific name is "Pandion haliaetus." Whether on breeding grounds, wintering along southern coastlines, or migration, it's hard to miss seeing the distinctive shape or hear the whistled call of the osprey from above.

Their wing area is pretty big for the size of their body, giving them much lifting power in order to haul their prey out of the water.

8. I am considered to be huge for my species, since I am the tallest flying bird in the Americas. I am not a very common resident of tropical freshwater wetlands, where I feed on fish, mud eels, and other aquatic vertebrates. I am also monotypic, meaning that there is no other division of my species. What bird am I?

Answer: jabiru

The jabiru's scientific name is "Jabiru mycteria." Jabirus are unmistakable, with a massive upturned bill. The genders are similar for adults. Their plumage is entirely white, which includes their wings and tail. Their head is unfeathered, and their necks are black. Jabirus also have a conspicuous red band at the base of their necks.

9. There is a large amount of my kind in southern Florida, but I occur widely along the Gulf coast. I appear more rarely on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. My species is also unmistakable, especially when my most known feature is visible. My scientific name gives away my English name. What bird am I?

Answer: magnificent frigatebird

The scientific name of the magnificent frigatebird is "Fregata magnificens." The adult male is overall black, with a little bit of a purple gloss, and the gular pouch (the feature mentioned in the question) is orange to red. The pouch will inflate when the male sees a female it wants to breed with.

The gular pouch can also be a color somewhere in between red and orange. The bill and feet are gray. As for the female, the black on its head comes to a point on the chest, and the lower breast is white.

The upper belly is constricted in the center. The bill is gray, and the feet are pink.

10. I live in southern bottom-land forests and was thought to be long extinct. However, recent reports from eastern Arkansas say I still live in the wild. My scientific name is "Campephilus principalis." What bird am I?

Answer: ivory-billed woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in the United States and the third largest in the world. They are mostly black with a massive creamy white bill, and a large crest that differs in gender. The male's crest is red and it curves back, while the female's is black and it curves forward. Also, both sexes have a striking flight pattern with completely white secondaries and white tips that go into the inner primaries.

They also have long white stripes on either side of their backs.

Source: Author brainiac62

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