BIRDS
A Study Guide

Raptors!
Part 1

Bald Eagle!

Golden Eagle!
Like all eagles, it belongs to the family
Accipitridae.
-found in eastern oregon
-big bird, with a big beak

Osprey!

Red-tailed Hawk!
-does not always have a red tail
-has broader wings than other hawks
-most common hawk here

Cooper's Hawk!
-long tail
-Brown-red streaking on underside
-thinner, does not have pointed wings or helmet.

American Kestrel!
is a falcon
-pointed wings and is a smaller bird
-reddish brown back
-blue gray wings
Has the helmet coloring like the Peregrine falcon
-Gray head with black stripes
-grassland habitat

Northern Harrier!
*note white portion along lower back, visible in flight.
-Once known as Marsh hawk
-Face is more like an owl than a hawk (disk like)
-White rump patch
-flys low in marshes

Not this one!

Peregrine Falcon!
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-high in food chain
-rare due to DDT in the past
-nest on bridges
-hunt pigeons-ducks-rodents
-Pointy wings
Dark 'helmet' patch on head extending around eye
-yellow beak, black tip, sharp
-yellow talons

Great Horned Owl

BABY!
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Western Screech Owl!
-common but hard to find
-small ear tufts
-brownish almost gray
-Streaking on underside
-disk shaped face

Barn Owl!

Swimming Birds!
Part 2...

Mallard Duck!

American Wigeon!
-Blue bill, dipped in ink look, black tip
-white head
-green stripe behind the eye
-brownish body

Northern Shoveler!
Dabler=tips over head in water does not dive

Wood Duck!

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Northern Pintail!
-tail is long and thin
-neck has an elegant look
-brown head
-white patch/stripe wraps around head and up neck.

Cinnamon Teal!
-Bigger than a mallard or widgeon
-Amber brown
-blue patch on wing when flying

Blue-Winged Teal!
-White line through the eye=female
White patch/crescent shaped on front of face =male
-Grayish head
-Blue wing

Green-winged Teal!
-Reddish head
-Green stripe behind eye
-Whitish stripe on side of the male
-And a white triangle shaped patch on end of the tail of the bird.

Ruddy Duck!
Spikey tail!
compact bird blue bill

Bufflehead!
-Diving duck
-During winter nest in California or Canada

Common Merganser!
-Diver
-live on the willamette in big flocks
-eat catfish
-thin red beaks like razors-to catch fish
-crested brown head

Hooded Merganser!
-Diver, know by beak to catch fish

Canada Goose

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Snow Goose
-White with black patches on end of wings
(The domesticated goose is all white)

Tundra Swan!
(aka Whistling Swan)

American Coot!

Double-Crested Cormorant!
These birds just sit around sunning themselves!

Common Loon!

Pied-billed Grebe!

Western Grebe!

Tufted Puffin!

American White Pelican!

Brown Pelican!

Miscellaneous Bird List...
part 3

Great Blue Heron
-Not as lanky as the Sandhill crane
-crooked neck when they fly
-yellow bill
-they will eat everything, from mice to frogs, fish and snakes

Great Egret

Sandhill Crane
Know the call...
-Straight neck when they fly
-Gray, red patch on head
-Thin long legs
-Black bill
-Eat grasses and grain

Killdeer

American Robin

House Sparrow
-Non-native, from Europe
-live under the eaves of houses
-black patch on chin, white under the eye
-greenish crown

Song Sparrow

European Starling

House Finch

Dark-eyed Junco
-Pink bill
-eats seeds
-it is a type of sparrow

Black-capped Chickadee

Northern Flicker
eats ants, forages on the ground, nests in trees
when they fly, orange yellow underwing
-red patch is not always on the head

Western Scrub Jay
*lives in urban areas
*makes a lot of noise

Steller's Jay
*lives in forested areas
*all blue with black crested head

American Crow
*scavenger

Downy Woodpecker

Vaux's Swift

Violet-green Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Tree Swallow

Sage Grouse

Western Bluebird

California Quail

Rufous Hummingbird

American Dipper!
-Found in fast running streams/rivers
-nest in dome shaped nests on cliffs
-they have build in googles, a membrane
-long legs and stout, with a short tail
-dark gray, non-descript

Know the calls!
1. http://www.savingcranes.org/sandhill-crane.html
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO2jE0a2Xro
3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4xXbiKCPo&safe=ac tive
4.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pgV6-
A8ZA&safe=active
5.http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/great_horned_owl/so unds
6.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0S3NhhV1js&safe=act ive
7.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjtv7sLFuc&feature=fvwrel