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18 Cards in this Set
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Pacific Loon
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Gaviiformes: Loons
*Excellent divers *legs placed posteriorly *tarsi compressed and three toes webbed *long straight laterally compressed bill *Bones not Hollow |
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Pied-billed Grebe
Western Greebe |
Podicipediformes:
*reduced tail *lobate feet *short narrow wings *toenails flattened |
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Sooty Shearwater
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PROCELLARIIFORMES: (albatrosses, shearwaters, fulmars, and petrels)
*slightly hooked beak *long narrow wings *tubular nostrils |
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Brown Pelican
Double-creasted Cormorant |
PELECANIFORMES:(totipalmate swimmers)
*Bill with gular sack *feet totipalmate (three webs between four toes) |
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Great Blue Heron
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CICONIIFORMES (long-legged waders)
*long legs, neck, bill, and wings *wings broad;tail short *neck folded in "S" shape in flight |
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Canada Goose
Wood Duck Surf Scooter American Wigeon Canvansback Mallard Common Merganser |
Anseriformes (water fowl)
*broad flat lamellated (plates) or serrated bill and nail *four toes- one small and elevated three toes joined by two webs |
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Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed hawk Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned hawk Bald Eagle Golden Eagle Osprey |
FALCONIFORMES (BIRDS OF PREY)
*Bill hooked *nostrils located in basal cere *strong feet with grasping claws *females usually larger than males |
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Californian Quail
Ring-necked Pheasant Blue Grouse Ruffed Grouse |
GALLIFORMES:(fowl like birds)
*short curved bill *short rounded wings * strong legs * hind toe always present |
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Sandhill Crane
Coot |
GRUIFORMES: (CRANES, RAILS, ALLIES)
*bill neck legs usually long *fly with neck extended *very diverse group but with similar plalate and skeletal features |
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Black oyster catcher
Killdeer Whimbrel Western gull common snipe Common murre Pigeon guillemot Marbled murrelet American Avocet Black-necked stilt |
CHARADRIIFORMES: (shore birds, auks and gulls)
characters variable *bill often long and heavy *legs and feet small *feet often webbed waders, swimmers and divers |
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Banded-tailed pigeon
Mourning dove Rock dove |
COLUMBIFORMES:
*plump bodies *small heads *short slender bill with prominent cere *wings and tail often long, but broad |
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Barn owl
Great horned owl Short-eared owl Western screech-owl Burrowing owl Spotted owl Northern pygmy owl |
STRIGIFORMES
*strong hooked beak with cere *raptorial feet with zygodactyl toes *broad wings with soft plumage *toes often feathered *large head forward facing eyes |
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Common nighthawk
Poorwill |
CAPRIMULGIFORMES (goatsuckers)
*short weak beak with wide gape surrounded by bristles * large eyes weak feet *long pointed wings most crepuscular (active dawn and dusk) |
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Vaux's swift
Rufous humming bird |
APODIFORMES; swifts and hummingbirds
*small birds with very short legs and tiny weak feet *small decurved bill with large mouth (swifts) *long delicate bill and tongue9humming bird) *short humerus and relatively long forearm and hand bones |
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Belted kingfisher
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CORACIIFORMES (kingfishers, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, hornbills)
*large head *large billed *mettallic bright plummages *toe syndactylous *anterior toes joined in various combinations |
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Northern fliker
Acorn woodpecker Red-breated sapsucker Downy woodpecker Hairy woodpecker Lewis's woodpecker Pileated woodpecker |
PICIFORMES
*bill long straight chisel like *tail often stiff with graduated feather lengths *wings long *feet strong and zygodactylous |
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perching birds
*more than 5000 species *all have simple perching anisodactyl feet with toes at the same level *medium to small size |
PASSERIFORMES
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Kiwi
Super Order: Paleoagathae *flightless birds w/o keeled sternum Order: Dinornithiformes *long beak *reduced wings |
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