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25 Cards in this Set
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Tyrannidae
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Tyrant Flycatchers
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Laniidae
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Shrikes
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Vireonidae
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Vireos
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Corvidae
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Crows and Jays
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Alaudidae
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Larks
Brown with horns, elongated hind claw |
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Hirundinidae
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Swallows and Martins
Pointed wings, shorts bill, tiny feet, monomorphic |
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Paridae
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Chickadees and Titmice
Small, plump, cavity nesters, social, inquisitive |
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Remizidae
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Penduline Tits (Verdin)
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Aegithalidar
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Long-tailed tits, bushtits
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Sittidae
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Nuthatches
treeclimbers, cache seeds, territorial |
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Certhiidae
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Creepers
small, curved bills, spirals up trees |
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Troglodytidae
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Wrens
energetic, slightly curved bills, tail size varies, complex songs |
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Cinclidae
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Dippers
like a large wren, lives on streams, can stay underwater for 30 sec. |
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Regulidae
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Kinglets
tiny, has a crown, very active, sing vigorously during mating |
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Sylviidae
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Old World Warblers, arctic warblers, gnatcatchers
tiny, blue-gray, slender bills, very active |
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Turdidae
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Thrushes
robins, bluebirds, strong-legged, large eye |
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Timaliidae
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Wrentit, babblers
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Mimidae
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Mockingbirds, Thrashers, Catbird
known for mimicking other songs, usually long-tailed |
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Sturnidae
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Starlings, mynas
sharp billed, short tailed, form large flocks |
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Motacilladae
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Pipts and Wagtails
often found walking on ground, builds nests on ground |
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Bombycillidae
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Waxwings
have crests, high pitched trill songs |
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Parulidae
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Wood warblers
smaller than sparrows, very brightly colored, sharp thin bills |
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Thraupidae
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tanagers
very colorful, strongly dimorphic |
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Emberizidae
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new world sparrows, juncos, towhees, lark and fox sparriw
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Cardinalidae
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Cardinals and allies
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