I and the Bird #23
Posted May 11th, 2006 at 10:20 am in Birding
The latest edition of I and the Bird is up. Only this one has a twist.
If you can identify all 27 birds from the pictures provided, this week’s host, birdDC, will buy you a Peterson Field Guide of your choice. I got close, but doubt I got them all.
And as always, the carnival features good posts on birds. Here are my favorites.
- A nice writeup on the Great Texas Birding Classic. It even has a picture of the guys I’ve been to Mexico with (the picture that looks like a group of thugs). I did the classic the first two years it was out and it’s a great event.
- The Scoop on the Red Knot and Horseshoe Crab
- When Mockingbirds Attack
- The US has vultures, the old world buzzards (which are actually analogous to our large hawks – genus Buteo). These are buzzards.
Update: I got 23 out of 27 correct. I also know the identity of those I missed. For 1 million dollars, I will gladly give you the right answers, and use a portion of the money (no more than $20) to pay back the blog author for the book you swindled him out of. I figure as long as he’s not out any money, I’ll have a clean conscience. Not to mention $999,980.
Okay, I can get half or so of them easily.
Some of them are hard/doubtful/ambiguous.
Some of them I can’t even tell it’s a bird. Just looks like abstract art. Yikes!