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Birds by Picture #2

Guess the common names of the birds pictured below.
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Level 84
Mar 16, 2018
Accept "rooster" for chicken?
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Level 74
Mar 16, 2018
I agree. That's what first came to mind for me.
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
Okay.
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Level 66
Mar 17, 2018
How about 'cock' or 'cockerel', which are more common than 'rooster' where I live.
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
Ok
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Level 67
Aug 9, 2021
Can you also accept ‘Red Junglefowl’?
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
So, it's very sad that amongst all these lovely LIVE birds, the poor little North Island Brown Kiwi is sitting there all dead, stuffed, and stuck to a wooden mount! Might I direct you to a selection of photos of a living (and unbearably cute) North Island Brown Kiwi chick from which you might choose a new picture to use? I'm a big fan of the third from the bottom at https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/name-kiwi-chick, or you might like one from https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/smithsonian-conservation-biology-institute-seeking-names-for-kiwi-chick, which gives a great sense of scale. The National Zoo is part of the US government and therefore these photos are in the public domain. P.S. Her name is Whetu, which means "star" in Maori. And yes, she was born right here in Washington, DC two years ago as part of the most successful North Island Brown Kiwi breeding program outside of New Zealand (the species is endangered).
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
Sorry if I just over fangirled! I've followed Whetu since her birth, which I legit watched live on the Interwebz :-)
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Level 88
Mar 22, 2018
That dodo looks live to you?! ;)
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
TBH, the quail looks a little suspect too (if not extinct), but it's only the poor kiwi that's sitting there nailed to a TV tray.
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Level 40
Jul 31, 2021
there's no quail here, unless you're referring to the Pheasant which is definetly not extinct
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Level 68
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 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 74
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 60
Aug 19, 2018
Aren't Orioles a little orange-ish? Never seen a yellow one before.
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Level 57
Aug 20, 2018
That is orange compared to a Golden oriole.
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Level 45
Aug 20, 2018
Albatross! - 'do you get wafers with it?'
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Level 89
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 71
Oct 6, 2020
This comment needs a like button!
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Level 84
Feb 6, 2020
Just found out today that Terry Jones passed away last month at the age of 77. :-(
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Level 46
Aug 20, 2018
Fun quiz. Accept "Great Auk" for Dodo? IIRC both names refer to the same extinct bird.
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Level 60
Aug 20, 2018
They were different birds. May they rest in peace..
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Level 67
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 72
Aug 20, 2018
And here, my relentless quest to get "albatros" accepted continues...
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Level 68
Aug 22, 2018
A stuffed moa would have been an acceptable picture, being extinct, but a stuffed kiwi?? Every summer I go camping on an island which has 2,000 kiwi, we can hear them and see them near our tent at night.
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Level 74
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 93
Sep 25, 2019
the chicken and the bluebird look angry or is it just 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 66
Nov 16, 2021
Accept "dunnock" for sparrow? The two are remarkably similar and I think closely related anyway.
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Level 64
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 77
Jun 29, 2022
Aside from the Dodo, what's with the two non-living bird pictures?
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Level 76
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.