Inspired by the Diabolical Quiz series on 10,000 Birds, I have created a Diabolical Shorebird Chick Quiz, using photos I took of all the various shorebird chicks I found this season in Churchill, MB. Also included in this quiz are a few non-shorebird chicks. A final hint... some chicks are repeats, so some species will be used more than once... Answers will follow shortly... good luck!
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Diabolical indeed!
ReplyDeleteWell, might as well take a stab at it....
ReplyDelete1) Hudsonian Godwit
2) Purple Sandpiper
3) White-rumped Sandpiper
4) Mallard
5)Baird's Sandpiper
6) Lapland Longspur
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8) Pectoral Sandpiper
9) Hudsonian Godwit
10) Gull, Herring?
11) Baird's
12) Least
13) Spotted Sp
14) Greater Yellowlegs
15) Long-billed Dowitcher
No snipe?
Deleteno 7 has to be golden plover!
ReplyDeleteI like to think the cute factor makes up for the diabolical-ness. Well, we still need more answers... so far only number 7 has been answered correctly, with a picture of 2 American Golden Plover chicks.
ReplyDelete1 Yellowlegs (I ain't going to differentiate betwen Greater and Lesser!)
ReplyDelete2 Wilson's Snipe
3 Stilt Sandpiper
4 Shoveler
5 Least Sandpiper
6 Smith's Longspur
7 Am Golden Plover
8 Stilt Sandpiper
9 Yellowlegs
10 Parasitic Jaegar
11 Short-billed Dowitcher
12 Yellowlegs
13 Stilt Sandpiper
14 Pectoral Sandpiper
15 Hudsonian Godwit
I am going to try and fail miserably. And steal some answers from Mr. Anonymous ahead of me...
ReplyDelete1. Marbled Godwit
2. Wilson's Snipe
3. Stilt Sandpiper
4. Northern Shoveler
5. Stilt Sandpiper
6. Smith's Longspur
7. American Golden Plover
8. Stilt Sandpiper
9. Hudsonian Godwit
10. Pomarine Jaeger
11. Short-billed Dowitcher
12. Dunlin
13. Stilt Sandpiper
14. Least Sandpiper
15. Short-billed Dowitcher
Very good so far. Still have some more to go. Two species have not been mentioned yet that are included in this quiz. Also, note number 3 has two answers.
ReplyDeleteCorrect Answers thus far are:
4. Northern Shoveler
5. Least Sandpiper
7. American Golden Plover
8. Stilt Sandpiper
10. Correct genus with Stercorarius, but wrong species
11. Short-billed Dowitcher
12. Dunlin
14. Least Sandpiper
15. Short-billed Dowitcher
Keep going! And have fun! I'm giving people until later this week to get their answers in before I post the answer key.
Finally, here are the answers... hope you enjoyed the quiz!
ReplyDelete1. Whimbrel
2. Red-necked Phalarope
3. Short-billed Dowitcher in a nest with 3 Hudsonian Godwit chicks
4. Northern Shoveler
5. Least Sandpiper
6. Savannah Sparrow
7. American Golden Plover
8. Stilt Sandpiper
9. Whimbrel
10. Parasitic Jaeger
11. Short-billed Dowitcher
12. Dunlin
13. Red-necked Phalarope
14. Least Sandpiper
15. Short-billed Dowitcher