Ornithology ID Practice

[scientist]

thats a hard one, warbling vireo, male, Vireo gilvus, class:aves, order: Passeriformes
oops too late??

[Paradox21]

Well, I 'checked' my answer and it seems to be right, so I am just going to post a new bird. I'll give you a hint: it is a raptor.


What effect does DDT have on birds?

[scientist]

wait a minute how do you know yours is right and mine isn't just a little confused here
can we ask the kestrel guy who runs this or the poster of the bird to confirm your answer, not to be rude I just want to know, what if it pops up in the competion

[Paradox21]

wait a minute how do you know yours is right and mine isn't just a little confused here

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. I 'checked' my answer by left clicking the image and hitting 'Save as.' The name of the image is pretty self evident. Which brings up a good point, people should run their images through an image hosting site (tinypic or imageshack) to prevent any less honorable people from cheating.

[courage7856]

Yay! I finally got here in time to see an unanswered picture for once.

I'm going to say that the bird is a Red-Tailed Hawk. Am I right? I'm not too good at identifying yet.

And DDT weakens the eggshells of birds, resulting in eggs that kind of fall apart before they hatch.

[Paradox21]

Not a Red-Tailed. But you are right about the DDT.

[courage7856]

I was close. At least I got the DDT part. Was it Swainson's?

[scientist]

thanks for clearing that up

[amerikestrel]

wait a minute how do you know yours is right and mine isn't just a little confused here

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. I 'checked' my answer by left clicking the image and hitting 'Save as.' The name of the image is pretty self evident. Which brings up a good point, people should run their images through an image hosting site (tinypic or imageshack) to prevent any less honorable people from cheating.

Yeah... also, the image is listed on this page as a redstart.

And I don't exactly run this, I just came up with the idea and started the thread.

[amerikestrel]

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to put in my 2 cents on the hawk image.

The face looks sort of like the Northern Harrier but the markings aren't right, so I'd have to say Cooper's Hawk. I might be wrong though; I haven't really studied hawk identification that much.