Photo Quiz
Okay, I have Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion to give away. A book designed to hone shaky bird skills--teach you how to tell the tough to id birds apart. What have I been doing to give them away--having tough birds to id as a photo contest. The person who really needs this book is someone who can't tell thrushes apart. So, based on Non Birding Bill's prudent suggestion I am posting this photo for the quiz:
Best incorrect answer in the comments section wins the book.
Best incorrect answer in the comments section wins the book.
posted by birdchick at 1:08 PM
38 Comments:
Ruby throated hummingbird
No- WAIT!!
Albino ruby throated hummingbird!
(I really need that book)
Swainson's Thrush.
lynn has it all wrong.
that is clearly a U.A.B.G.
unidentified ass biting goose
Black Footed Fulvous Hissing Grey Backed Pond Finch
looks like a kitten to me...I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Greater White Cheeked-Offed Honker
*Park at Your Own Risk*
But it's so clearly an eastern meadow vole ...
Traffic Cop
A chipping sparrow????
SWAMPTHING!
That's it!!! BAM!!
Very short emu?
Well, duh! It's obviously a Plymouth Road Runner.
Flying Carp..
An obvious Chimney Swift.
Dave said...
Minnesota Pointing Goose
(Rabbitus Disapprovicus)
Of course it is an Ivory-billed Woodpecker! How could you mistake it for anything else?
I believe it to be Rudyard Kipling's infamous bi-colored python rock snake, found exclusively on the grey-green, greasy Limpopo River...very rare.
Caroline in SD
Buncha smart-asses you've got here!
That is obviously a Canadian Flying Vermin, also known as a Poops-Everywhere Goose!
~Other Sharon
Very common in my area. It's a robin.
It's Cinnamon in disguise after being told of the cute overload thing
It's a small feathered cow.
Non-migrating, migratory, web-footed car horn.
Clearly it's a Canada Goose. Do I win for being the first to clearly state it?
Dea Lloyd
Victoria, B.C.
...and clearly, I'm a knob for not reading the directions.
Enraged aspiring movie star, upon being told he is not skinny enough to be an extra in "The Birds."
chicken hawk
-- Michelle
I think it may be some kind of fish. Probably a mackerel. Also, the thing behind it is a car.
This is Harry Whittington, the lawyer who was shot in the face and chest by vice President Dick Cheney, still wearing the facial bandages from the incident. He has been entered in the witness prtection program, and his identity changed. This photo was taken after his cover was blown and he was informed that he was to be relocated to either 1. New Orleans or 2. some where along the Mississippi flyway.
It should be obvious to everyone that AFLAC has upsized their ad campaign and is introducing the AFLAC GOOSE.
It can be nothing other than the Fumious Jubjub bird from old poetry lore come to deviously deploy it's weapon of choice, the wicked samurai sword of doom.
Note the coloring which clearly denotes it being of the "midwestern" group which is slightly less harmful than members of the vicious eastern population.
It's a car alarm. One of the really obnoxious ones that goes off when you look at it wrong.
Lindsay
MOM!!!
MOTHER!!!
Where did you find her????
Dodo?
No... Albatross!
no, yellow... ahhhhhhhhhhhh (NBB should get that one)
WOW!
This has been tough a tough contest. Number 1--THERE'S SO MUCH MISIDENTIFICATION--I can barely stand it. Number 2--you guys have come up with some seriously hilarious answers.
I went with the most innaccurate guess--the eastern meadowvole--they don't even go in the water!
Congratulations, Janet, email me your snail mail address and I will send you a direly needed Pete Dunne book!
We are so doing this again, you guys are just too funny!
It is someone who read the names Pete D made up in his book. Real honkers.
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