Shorebird Quiz Answers
Forgot to ID all the birds in a previous quiz. Here there are. The Baird’s was kind of unfair

The rest are Least, unless I missed something.







Forgot to ID all the birds in a previous quiz. Here there are. The Baird’s was kind of unfair

The rest are Least, unless I missed something.







Felt like I was at the coast this morning, but it was Cedar Point on Lake Buchanan. 13 species of shorebirds including both grasspipers and 4 Whimbrels (one of our elliptical migrants). 100s of peeps. 1 Flat-billed Flamingo (aka Spoonbill), yet another Tri-colored Heron and apparently a pretty high count (per ebird) of Avocets (51),…
Migration is happening!! Tons of yellow warblers and gnatcatchers at Hornsby and a few others sprinkled in like Clay-colored Sparrow and a Flycatcher someone can ID. Also 14 species of shorebirds including Avocets and Semipalm Plovers.
Starting to be shorebird time of year at Hornsby, but the PUMAs are prolific !!! Some of these and some of Y’ll may make Shorebird Class
Thanks to Terry for letting me know about this Red-necked Phalarope at Hornsby. I re-found it at noon today.
Still from Granger yesterday. Here’s a few shorebirds for any graduate of the Shorebird Class to ID. Look at the flying flock carefully.
Ok, here’s a mystery bird for the current shorebird class. (if you’re not in the class feel free to email me if you figure out the answer). I recently emailed a demonstration of how to take a stab at identifying distant shorebirds in bad photographs. Here are some really bad photographs (distant digi-scoped). But if…