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Can you identify these birds based on a picture?
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First submittedMarch 16, 2018
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hint: found in West Papua
longest wingspan of any bird
42 Comments
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Level 69
Apr 25, 2018
Please accept the American names for two of these species. Ring-necked Pheasant for Common Pheasant and European Starling for Common Starling. The "Common" names are Old World.
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Level 72
May 26, 2018
The quiz accepted just plain: pheasant, starling, kiwi, etc. Why do you even need to use the exact name of the species shown or which hemisphere that name originated in? Keep it simple folks.
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Level ∞
Dec 11, 2024
6.5 years later, those will be accepted!

But, yes, the shorter names would have worked.

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Level 65
Aug 19, 2018
That's the weirdest looking blackbird I've ever seen...
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Level 75
Aug 20, 2018
It's a red-winged blackbird, one of the most common birds in the US. They often group with starlings and other blackbirds in the late winter and empty my bird feeders, but they are a bane to the rice farmers in this area who use noise cannons to try to scare them away from the fields just before harvest time. There are sometimes thousands of birds in the flocks and can decimate crops.
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Level 73
Aug 20, 2018
Red wing blackbirds are the worst. If you come anywhere near them, (which you often do as they like to build nests in the prairie grasses and weeds, like those right next to public walkways and sidewalks) they attack and dive bomb you like crazy.
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Level 45
Aug 20, 2018
Albatross! - 'do you get wafers with it?'
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Level 91
Aug 21, 2018
How do you know so much about swallows?
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Level 45
Aug 23, 2018
You have to know these things when your a king you know.
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Level 70
Oct 6, 2020
This comment needs a like button!
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Level 60
Jan 9, 2025
African or European?
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Level 86
Feb 6, 2020
Just found out today that Terry Jones passed away last month at the age of 77. :-(
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Level 47
Aug 20, 2018
Fun quiz. Accept "Great Auk" for Dodo? IIRC both names refer to the same extinct bird.
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Level 73
Aug 20, 2018
They were different birds. May they rest in peace..
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Level 73
Jul 11, 2019
Not even close! No relation or habitat or anything in common. they are both flightless birds and thats about it
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Level 47
Dec 30, 2021
Different birds different places different times. not the same.
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Level 71
Aug 20, 2018
And here, my relentless quest to get "albatros" accepted continues...
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Level 79
Jan 11, 2025
why?
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Level 73
Oct 31, 2018
Redwing blackbirds are fabulous. In Vancouver I once saw one mob a bald eagle in flight, for ten impressive minutes. If you want to see one picking on politicians, a jogger, a reporter, and a police officer, check out this footage from Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Cathartic!
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Level 94
Sep 25, 2019
the chicken and the bluebird look angry or is it just me?
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Level 81
Jun 17, 2024
Pigs just took over their houses
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Level 90
Dec 11, 2024
i agree about the bluebird but the chicken just looks vacuous to me.
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Level 56
Jan 30, 2020
Suggest adding alternate spelling "bin chicken" for Sacred Ibis. Much more common here in Australia.
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Level 77
Sep 12, 2024
tbh I knew it wouldn't accept it, but I tried anyway
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Level 71
Dec 12, 2024
But the lad in the photo is T. aethiopicus, not T. molucca
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Level 85
Dec 12, 2024
Closely related (same genus) but a different species, native to Australia. "Ibis" works anyway. Though it's true the sacred ibis was also a bin chicken, as reported by the ancient Greek writer Strabo.
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Level 67
Nov 16, 2021
Accept "dunnock" for sparrow? The two are remarkably similar and I think closely related anyway.
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Level 63
Feb 23, 2022
I agree. Until quite recently, it was thought that dunnocks were sparrows. And I'm not sure you have the current name correct
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Level 69
May 29, 2024
No, they're similar but not the same. They just share similar colors, but are easily distinguishable.
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Level 83
Jan 10, 2025
My sibling once asked me how to tell the difference between a dunnock and a sparrow. I said: "the hint's in the name, dunnocks are dun". Apparently that did not help.
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Level 59
Dec 12, 2024
No they aren't, Dunnocks are Accentors not Sparrows. They look similar to the untrained eye but they're not related.
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Level 55
Jan 13, 2025
They're not the same, and they are not even in the same family (house sparrow is from the Passeridae, dunnock is from the Prunelidae family).
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Level 81
Feb 7, 2024
I had always known #10 as a "Red-Shouldered Blackbird" but today I learned that is a sister species only endemic in Cuba.
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Level 81
Jun 17, 2024
Does anyone know what the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow is?
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Level 68
Dec 11, 2024
yeah, 11 metres per second. Why do you ask, good fellow?
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Level 84
Dec 15, 2024
An African or a European swallow?
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Level 86
Dec 11, 2024
Was waaaay over-thinking the blackbird.
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Level 86
Dec 11, 2024
That kiwi is a very dismal looking bird.
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Level 78
Dec 12, 2024
Thanks for accepting Junglefowl for Chicken. I really really overthought that one and i'm glad it was accepted. Felt like a dummy when "chicken" popped up.
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Level 66
Dec 13, 2024
As a birder I was being so careful to give these species their full and correct name, would have done it so much quicker if I'd gone for generics. But reading people wanting Dunnock for House Sparrow and Great Auk for Dodo made me despair! No wonder wildlife is in such trouble!
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Level 79
Dec 14, 2024
That may be the most beautiful chicken I've ever seen
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Level 43
Jan 9, 2025
Cool quiz, luckily I managed to guess all the ones I didn't know.