Ornithology B/C

[junexia]

does ny have a state list for ornithology? cuz pa used the national list, and a lot of the bird calls you guys had to know, it wasnt on the nationals list

[paleonaps]

Yeah, it does.

[FueL]

We do have a separate states list.

@Naps: You could be right, I don't remember any of the stations too well anymore. As for bird calls, I bought an app for it on my iPod and we were last minute cramming the day of and day before states. XD

[paleonaps]

Was it the Peterson one? I have that. But I seriously don't think I was right.

[googlyfrog]

@amerikestrel: i think you might be talking about the same one junexia and i were stuck on. it was standing up on the last station on your left in the second row...it was black-ish. we left that ID blank. did you happen to get the one in the back row on the right side that was a small black bird lying on its back? we were stumped.

yeah all their eyes were like covered with some sort of white stuff.

I think this bird was lying down, so it probably wasn't the one you're referring to. I'm pretty sure one of the birds was the green heron, was that the one you were stumped on? And I remember the small black one; I put Corvus americanus but that was just a guess.

Did you get the game bird that was on the left side of the room (I think)? And the bird in the front left was a bald eagle, right? The white feathers looked really dirty; almost grey; and they told me it was mounted over 100 years ago.

Wait, amerikestrel, what school are you from?

Mount Nittany Middle School. We didn't place in ornith ( ) because I messed up a lot of the identification, and I only got 5th in fossils. Oh well, there's always next year.

No, we knew the green heron one, we got that one. We were thinking of writing corvus americanus for the small black one, but we thought it was too small to be an american crow. We put down common grackle for that one even though we knew we were dead wrong.

[amerikestrel]

No, we knew the green heron one, we got that one. We were thinking of writing corvus americanus for the small black one, but we thought it was too small to be an american crow. We put down common grackle for that one even though we knew we were dead wrong.

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure that that was the common grackle because I remember it having a shinyish blue neck.

[googlyfrog]

I thought the common grackle was the one in the front, the first row on like the second seat to the right? We put common grackle for that one and the one in the back...

[junexia]

@amerikestrel: i think you might be talking about the same one junexia and i were stuck on. it was standing up on the last station on your left in the second row...it was black-ish. we left that ID blank. did you happen to get the one in the back row on the right side that was a small black bird lying on its back? we were stumped.

yeah all their eyes were like covered with some sort of white stuff.

I think this bird was lying down, so it probably wasn't the one you're referring to. I'm pretty sure one of the birds was the green heron, was that the one you were stumped on? And I remember the small black one; I put Corvus americanus but that was just a guess.

Did you get the game bird that was on the left side of the room (I think)? And the bird in the front left was a bald eagle, right? The white feathers looked really dirty; almost grey; and they told me it was mounted over 100 years ago.

Wait, amerikestrel, what school are you from?

Mount Nittany Middle School. We didn't place in ornith ( ) because I messed up a lot of the identification, and I only got 5th in fossils. Oh well, there's always next year.

No, we knew the green heron one, we got that one. We were thinking of writing corvus americanus for the small black one, but we thought it was too small to be an american crow. We put down common grackle for that one even though we knew we were dead wrong.

it was not "we" who thought it was too small to be an american crow! i said it was an american crow and you wouldnt believe me!

[googlyfrog]

Well we're a team, so you had to agree to put that down. If it was only I who thought it wasn't an american crow, you would've changed the answer.

[junexia]

but you were writing, so i couldnt have changed it. whatever, back to ornithology.