The following sharp-eyed SVBC members correctly identified Pixilated Bird #4.0 as an Elegant Euphonia! Well done.
Roni Chernin
Alison Olivieri
Bley Fernandez Vega
R. Ruvalo
Linda Threatte
And now here is Pixilated Bird Photo ID #5.0. This will be our last one for a while. Thanks to all who played along.
Send your answer to:
eltangaral@gmail.com
For correctly identifying Pixilated Bird #3.0, the Blue-Gray Tanager, congratulations to the following SVBC members:
Roni Chernin
Linda Threatte
Nancy Warshower
David Fielding
Tom Wilkinson
Here’s our next bird; more challenging? It is a beauty. Send your responses to:
eltangaral@gmail.com
Good luck.
Can you ID this pixilated bird?
Send me your best guess:
eltangaral@gmail.com
I will post the first five correct responses.
(Still pretty easy but they’ll get tougher as we go along.)
Here are the first five SVBC members to correctly identify Pixilated Bird 2.0 as a Resplendent Quetzal.
Kathy Bauer
Jo Davidson
Lety Andino
David Fielding
Tom Wilkinson
Well done all! And bonus points to the great and powerful Kathy Bauer for figuring out, if you squint up your eyes when looking at the pixilated photo, it looks much clearer.
Next Pixilated Bird ID coming later this week. And 3.0 will be more difficult, I promise.
Maybe Pixilated Bird ID #1 was just poorly executed. Maybe this whole idea could be fun, fun, fun with a better photo! We’ll start off with a pretty easy one.
Pixilated Bird ID #2.0. Identify the bird shown below and send your answer to:
eltangaral@gmail.com
You won’t actually win anything but I will post the names of the first five SVBC members who correctly identify…this bird.
I guess the Pixilated Bird ID may not have been such a good idea; or maybe my first effort just wasn’t a good effort. Sorry.
Here are the pixilated version and the actual photo:
A King Vulture.
I’ll try one more tomorrow and if it is as bad, we’ll just move on.
Can you identify this bird from a highly pixilated and close-up photo?
(photo courtesy of Donna Goodwin)
Let me know—
eltangaral@gmail.com
–if this is any fun or just stupid.
Quiz Bird #1
City parks are often sites of great birding adventures. In New York, Central Park is a famous spot with more than 230 documented species. It is particularly ‘hot’ during spring and fall migrations and is the subject of a wonderful documentary called ‘The Central Park Effect’. Likewise, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is another birder’s dream and hosts 175 field trips per year for all birding skill levels. In Costa Rica, La Sabana Metropolitan Park has been reforested with native trees and now boasts about 200 species of birds.
Recently, in an enormous park in Mexico City – Parque Chapultepec — we ventured out to bird one morning and took some amazingly not-great photos BUT they are good enough to make a new Quiz Bird post for you!
Quiz Bird #2 — just the families will win the game!
Just name the five families and the first person who figures them out correctly will win either 6 Currant Scones or a six-pack of Imperial, Costa Rica’s national beer (your choice). If you can name all five species, you’ll get an extra surprise. Send your answers to: eltangaral@gmail.com. If you live in San Vito, your prize will be delivered at our next Bird Walk on Sunday, November 4 at 7:30 a.m. at Las Cruces. If you live anywhere else, we’ll mail you a non-comestible prize.
Quiz bird #3
In Cornell University’s local environmental education program, Detectives de Aves or BirdSleuth-International, any of the students would ace this quiz. Lesson 7 features bird family silhouettes and these photos, although they appear to have been taken by our anti-photographer, are perfectly adequate for you to correctly identify these groups. All our Detectives de Aves students are eligible to win this contest but no beer for them; instead, a dozen homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies. Attention Detectives: please include your name, school and grade level for proper eligibility.
Quiz Bird #5 — and it’s a gimme!
Quiz Bird #4
Our last Bird Quiz was a tough one, it seems. We had only one guess and that guess was a good one…but, it was not the bird WE thought it was.
First of all, here is the photo in question (courtesy of Jo Davidson):
We think this is a photo of a female White-winged Becard. The most excellent guess, from SVBC follower David Fielding, was a Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet.
The wing bars appear buffy-colored rather than white, as with the N.B. Tyrannulet.
BUT…Mr. Fielding…your guess was superb! Ergo, prior to your next visit to San Vito please contact me, Greg Homer (see below), and I’ll see to it that you receive one dozen home made cookies.
eltangaral@gmail.com
The first correct identification of this bird (shown below) wins something good to eat (like cookies; about 12) home-baked by SVBC President-Emeritus Alison Olivieri. Good luck!
Send your answer to: president@sanvitobirdclub.org
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La primera identificacion correcta de esta ave (abajo) gana algo buena para comer (como 12 galletas), horneado por Presidente-Emeritus Alison Olivieri. Buena suerte!
Envia su repuesta a: president@sanvitobirdclub.org
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