[birdky] Re: NEW PHOTO QUIZ
- From: "Mark Monroe" <markmonroe1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:14:39 -0400
Ok, as long as someone else was willing to take a stab first, I guess
I'll go as well, with the caveat that this is an outstanding photo
quiz with varying difficulty in it. :)
Agree that there are 3 and only 3 obvious (Mallard, Pintail, Black Duck).
Add what appears to be Green-winged Teal in photo 2 and what appears
to me to be Scaup in both photos (I'll tentatively agree that the male
in photo 1 looks like it might be a Greater).
Bird in middle of photo 1 perplexes me with how dark it is. I thought
it was a Gadwall at first glance, but wing pattern appears to be
Wigeon. Bird seems awfully dark though.
So, I'll go with 6 (or 7) as my guess realizing that I probably
overlooked something. Mallard, Pintail, Black Duck, Green-winged
Teal, American Wigeon, Greater Scaup and probably Lesser Scaup.
Mark Monroe
Louisville
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Scott and Glenda Record
<sgrecord@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I haven't seen any debate so far and I'm dying to know what everyone thinks
> are in the photos so I'll start out with an educated guess. First the easy
> ones...Mallard, Pintail, Black duck. Now the rest that I'm not so sure
> of... American widgeon (1), Green w-teal (1), Blue w-teal (2), Greater
> Scaup (1). Total 7 species.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)
> To: BIRDKY
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:21 PM
> Subject: [birdky] NEW PHOTO QUIZ
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> Thanks to Gary Ritchison for posting two photos of a group of waterfowl in
> flight. The shots were taken by Rick Seelhorst over South Shore WMA, Greenup
> Co., 1 March 2008. The two shots are different images of portions of the
> same flying flock. I had Gary include two images because you can see some
> individuals better in one than the other.
>
> How many species of waterfowl can you ID in the two photos combined? I
> *think* I know what all the birds are, but I'm sure we'll have a bit of
> debate about the identity of a few individuals. Should be interesting :o)
>
> The images can be viewed at the following link:
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> http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/distant_ducks.htm
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> Note that these images are relatively large in size and will take a couple
> of minutes to download if you are on dial-up; you can view a larger size of
> the images for better details in the ducks by clicking on the original
> images. At the larger size, only a few birds will be visible at any one
> time, but you can curse left and right and up and down to view the birds in
> detail.
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> BPB
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