Frank Taylor Photo Contest
Let's face it, most of us are at home the day before Thanksgiving or if we are at a job we are barely functioning because so many people are out on vacation. Who can concentrate? For readers of the blog who are not living in the United States, Thursday is Thanksgiving where many of us gather with family and eat crazy amounts of food and prep for an insane amount of shopping the following day. Non Birding Bill and I take a low key approach and celebrate Naked Thanksgiving.
Anyway, Frank Taylor sent over is final banding report for the 2006 Season and he included some great raptor head shots. So, can you identify all the raptor head shots in order? The prize is a Zeiss Lens Cloths and a Leupold Tote Bag (with a cool meadowlark graphic).
Anyway, Frank Taylor sent over is final banding report for the 2006 Season and he included some great raptor head shots. So, can you identify all the raptor head shots in order? The prize is a Zeiss Lens Cloths and a Leupold Tote Bag (with a cool meadowlark graphic).
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Feel free to try and age and sex the birds, but really to win, all you need is the species id in the order they are shown. First correct answer in the comments section with a name attached wins the prize.
Even if you can't identify all the birds in this contest, it's fun just to take in Frank's photos.
Even if you can't identify all the birds in this contest, it's fun just to take in Frank's photos.
Labels: banding, contest, raptors, ringing
posted by birdchick at 11:46 PM
9 Comments:
Happy Thangsgiving Sharon! and Bill! and the disaproving rabbits, and the cockateil..
Shawn
Hi Sharon!
my guess is:
Cooper's Hawk, Merlin, Northern Goshawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Broad-winged Hawk, Northern Harrier and American Kestrel.
Well, I was going to try and age them but then I read that the first person to identify them all correctly would win and that ageing and sexing wasn't necessary.
And as I disapprove of other people winning a hawk contest while I am still busy unnecesarily ageing the beasts, I postponed that until later.
Happy Thanksgiving and keep up the good birding and blogging!
Jochen Roeder
Ugh... Jochen beat me to it... I had the same guesses, but I was too busy actually getting sidetracked by some work on pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday.
Well, Patrick, that just goes to show that one should never ever even think about work when there's birds to identify...
Cheers,
Jochen
Go, Jochen! You nailed the contest. Email your snail mail to me:
sharon at birdchick dot com.
Shawn,
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
I don't know about you guys, but I cannot stop staring at the harrier head shot.
Such a cool bird!
Yes, Sharon, it's got attitude: "How dare you catch me!"
Jochen
The head shots are wonderful, but look at the eyes, absolutely fascinating in color and expression.
Caroline in South Dakota
Facial disk = bad ass.
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