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Year Two Rivers acquired |
1942 |
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Song Sparrow |
Melospiza melodia - central breast spot, malar mustache |
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Melospiza Georgiana - rust brown wings, black eyeline. No central dark spot. Sounds similar to chipping sparrow |
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Spizella pusilla - Pink bill, white eye ring, rufous cap, white wing bars. Steep decline. |
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Pounds per acre waterfowl feed on waste grain (land) before feeding rates decline |
13lbs/acre |
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What is nitrogen free extract |
Digestible carbohydrate |
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When is winter wheat highest in nitrogen (protein) |
When it emerges from senescence (actively growing) |
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What species bird carries young on back |
Loons |
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Gray headed coneflower - Ratibida pinnata. -Easy to establish on dry to mesic soil types |
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Common Arrowhead / duck potato |
Sagittaria latifolia |
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Acres Piasa island |
170 |
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Red shouldered hawk |
2 white tail bands, translucent windows near end of wings |
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Broad winged hawk |
Single white tail band |
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Golden eagle genus |
Aquila - true eagles. Booted > feathered all the way down to top of feet. |
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Bald eagle genus |
Haliaeetus - sea eagles |
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Difference between leaf arrangement coontail vs brittle Naiad |
Coontail is whorled. Naiad is opposite. |
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How does AMS assist glyphosate? |
The sulfate ions tie up MG & CA ions reducing hard water antagonism |
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When is the best time of year to burn to promote wildflowers |
Summer |
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Half life of 2,4-D |
12-40 days depending on water conditions |
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How many trumpeter swans were left in 1935 |
69. Located in Mt near Yellowstone Park |
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What year did swans arrive at Riverlands |
1991 |
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Where does the northern rough wing swallow get its name |
Miniscule hooks on the leading edge of their primary feathers |
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Current trumpeter swan population |
63,000 in 2015 |
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What was Hardin originally named? |
Child's landing - Benjamin Childs arrived in 1835 |
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Types of birds that feed on green ash seeds |
Cardinals, finches and woodies |
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Cerulean habitat |
Large tracts deciduous forest, diverse vertical structure, gaps in canopy |
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White trout lily |
Erythronium albidum Liliace - lily family |
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Yellow warbler |
Setophaga petechia |
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Palm warbler |
Setophaga palmarum -Breeds in boreal forest -spends a lot of time on the ground |
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Sora |
Porzana Carolina |
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Virginia rail |
Rallus limicola -longer reddish bill than sora yellow bill |
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Louisiana waterthrush |
Louisiana waterthrush-Parkesia motacilla -early spring migration -bobs tail constantly, montacilla means tail wagger -favors clear running water -eyestripe is wider at the rear |
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Northern waterthrush - Parkesia noveboracensis -Buffy eyebrow -more streaking on throat than Louisiana -swamps, dirty water |
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Blue headed vireo |
Vireo solitarius -white spectacles -olive green upper parts
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White eyed vireo |
Vireo griseus -quick with the beer check -yellow spectacles and flank |
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Gray dogwood |
Cornus racemosa -white drupes, leaves more slender than rough leaved |
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Blunt spike rush |
Eleocharis obtusa |
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Blue Jay |
Cyanocitta cristata -oldest banded 26 years |
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Reed canary grass |
Phalaris arundincea |
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Virginia wild rye |
Elymus virginicus -cool season perennial. Fast growing good for erosion control. Has some shade tolerance so good for woodland restorations. Readily reseeds. |
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What order are bitterns in? |
Pelecaniformes |
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Area search |
Informal, roam freely. Good for detecting which species are present but not numbers of each species. |
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Components of Upper Mississippi River restoration program |
Habitat restoration, monitoring and research. Authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 |
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Is herbicide Poast approved for aquatic use? |
No - toxic to aquatic organisms |
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How many years of early spring burning to control Reed canary? |
5 years. 1.5% solotion of glyphosate will brown it off enough to burn. Mowing before seed matures in mid June |
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How long is the rainfast time on rodeo? |
6 hours |
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Catbird |
Single phrase, dark cap, rufous under rump |
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Brown thrasher |
Song given in pairs, yellow eye |
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Mockingbird |
Song repeated 3 or more times, white ventral wing patches |
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Switchgrass |
Panicum vargatum |
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Amount of AMS to use with glyphosate |
2.5% > 2.5 to 5 gallons per 100 gal |
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Blue winged--Vermivora cynaoperta -Two wing bars, black eyeline Bee-buzz |
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Orange crowned- Olive green, orange crown rarely visible Oreothlypis celata Does not breed Mo |
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Nashville - Oreothlypis ruficapilla Does not breed Mo White eyering stands out on gray head Yellow belly |
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Tennessee - Oreothlypis peregrina Back green, underparts whiteish Breeds in boreal forest not Tn |
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Red-eyed vireo - vireo olivaceus Sings all day long Over 12,000 songs identified Clean white underparts
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Warbling vireo - vireo gilvus Whiteish stripe over the eye Stay high in the deciduous treetops 6 subspecies Breed in MO |
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What does vireo mean? |
Latin for green migratory bird |
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Philadelphia vireo- Vireo philadelphicus Breeds farthest North of the vireos Bright yellow below with a yellow throat, gray crown |
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Black-throated green - Setophaga virens Bright yellow face & dark throat Two white wingbars |
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Palm- Setophaga palmarum Spends time on ground bobbing tail Rusty cap, rusty streaks on breast and yellow eyebrows |
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Yellow rumpled - Setophaga coronata -Winters further north than any other warbler due to ability to digest waxes found in bayberries and wax myrtles Setophaga - ses "moth" phagos "eating" |
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Largest trumpeter swan on record |
38lbs |
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Virginia rail - Rallus limicola -reddish bill, black and white barred sides, gray cheek. Rusty overall, white undertail |
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Ohio spiderwort - Tradescantia ohiensis, Phlox divaricata -flowers only open for a day, Easy to establish from seed, full or partial shade, well drained soil |
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What soil type pin oak adapted to? |
Acidic soils of river bottomlands. Planting in alkaline (high calcium) soils results in Iron chlorsis, yellowish green foliage |
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How can native thistle be distinguished from invasive? |
Leaves of natives usually have whitened or wooly undersides |
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Scarlet - pringa olivacea - "chip burr" -cardinalidae -piranga(unknown small bird) olivacea(olive green) |
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Blue grosbeak, Passerina caerulea -cardinalidae -large silver bill, chestnut wingbars -shrubby thickety places -habitually spreads and twitches tail |
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Willett Tringa semipalmata -broken wing display like killdeer -Willett eggs are tasty, young plump and juicy |
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Greater yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca -often solitary -slightly upturned bill -strides purposely with high stepping gait |
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How many species of birds does UMR floodplain support? |
Over 300 |
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Bobolink |
Dolichonyx (long claw) oryzivorus (oryza=rice, vorus=devour) -rice bird -winter in South America, long distance migrants |
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Black throated blue, Setophaga caerulescens -does not breed in MO |
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Songbird species of concern along UMR corridor |
Wood thrush, veery, golden-winged, Connecticut, cerulean, rose breasted grosbeak and black-billed cuckoo. |
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Lotus, Nelumbo lutea -most leaves 1-3' above water surface -rhizomes and seeds, both edible -water lily leaves have a V shaped notch |
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Spatterdock, Nuphar advena -requires a muddy bottom -yellowish flowers -also called yellow pond lily & cow lily |
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Teal love grass, Eragrostis hypnoides -forms dense mats |
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Blue vervian, Verbena hastata -herbaceous perennial. Medium to wet soil -native -birds eat the seeds |
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Butterweed - Packera glabella -native -germination in fall and grows throughout the winter -do not eat! |
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Black throated blue, Setophaga caerulescens -white square on wing diagnostic |
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Least bittern/Green heron |
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Spotted touch me not, Impatiens capensis. Aka Jewelweed -pod pops open at slightest touch -moist bottomland -balsaminaceae |
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What is bolting? |
Stem elongation |
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How many fluid onces is a pint |
16 ounces. 0.5 quart. |
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Mourning, Geothlypis Philadelphia -low thick veg -eats eggshells after eggs hatch -population down 40%, still least concern -does not breed in MO |
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Philadelphia more bright yellow than warbling. Eyeline on Philadelphia goes all the way to the bill |
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Wild 4 o'clock, Mirabilis nyctaginea Mesic to dry |
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Yellow wood sorrel, Oxalis stricta -all parts edible, large amounts of vitamin c -oxys is Greek for sour -full sun, weedy |
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Vervian |
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What family is the Dickcissel in? |
Currently Cardinalidae. In the past was in the blackbird family. |
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How much edge buffer is needed to prevent cowbird parasitism |
400m |
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Leadplant, Amorpha canescens -not particular about soil type and adds nitrogen to the soil -slow to develop, 3 years to flower -yellow stamens -canescens = becoming gray |
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Least sandpiper, Caldris minutilla Yellow green legs, distinctive 'creep' call, slightly decurved bill. |
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Pectoral, Caldris melanotos Mudflats with short grass Heavily streaked breast with white belly. |
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How to distinguish Pennsylvania smartweed (pensylvanicum) from ladysthumb (persicaria)? |
Ladysthumb has a fringe of hairs on top of the ocera. |
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Spotted, Actitus macularius -stuttering wingbeats -bobbing tail constantly -crouched position -yellow legs, orangish bill |
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Solitary, Tringa solitaria -bobbing back half of its body -blackish underwings against white belly -prominent eyering -small white spots on the back -holds wings straight up after landing |
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What order / family is the cormorant in? |
Suliformes / Phalacrocorax |
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What are the two species of long winged peep? |
Baird's + White rumped |
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Nodding bur maigold- Bidens cernua Leaves turn purple cool weather Wet mucky soil |
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Yellow headed blackbird Xanthocephhalus Xanthocephhalus - xanthos=yellow, cephalus=head |
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Estimated size of piping plover population |
8,400. Threatened to endangered. |
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What do Anser & caeruleus mean? |
Anser - goose Caeruleus- bluish |
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Where do greater snow geese breed and winter |
Breed Canadian high artic, ellesmere Island. Winter Atlantic flyway around Delaware and Chesapeake Bay. |
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Snowy egret vs great egret |
Snowy has black bill with yellow lores & black legs with yellow feet. |
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Savanna sparrow, Passerus sandwichensis -yellow spot before eye -crisply streaked breast -short notched tail |
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Estimated number of bird watchers in US |
52 million |
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Definitive basic herring -diffuse dusky streaks in head (non breeding) -Pink legs -juvenile eye and bill entirety dark -steep decline |
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How to distinguish Ross from Snow goose |
Shorter neck Stubby triangular bill blueish at base Ross lacks grinning patch on bill |
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How to distinguish ring neck from scaup |
Ring neck peaked crest with white side spur. Scaup lack side spur and have pale backs. Ring neck white ring tip of bill & non whiteish wingstripe. Female scaup mostly solid brown head |
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Trumpeter vs Tundra |
Trumpeter eye broadly connected with V shaped border on forehead. Most tundras have a small yellow spot in front of eye (10% all black) |
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What year did house sparrows and starlings arrive in the United States respectively? |
1851 / 1890 |
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Bottle Gentian, Gentiana andrewsii -imperiled in MO -moist prairie, fens, openings in bittomland forest |
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Common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis -up to 6 feet tall -opens flowers in the evening -June through October |
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Common golden Alexander, Zizia aurea -grows in a wide variety of habitat -height 2' |
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Where does sideoats gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula) do best? |
Dry sites with little competition from more aggressive native plants |
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Yellow, Setophaga petechia -associated with willows/wetlands |
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Franklin's, Leucophaeus pipixcan Bold partial white eye ring White window and wingtips Red/orange feet and legs Breeds interior marshes of North America |
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What does solidago mean? |
To make whole |
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How do Foster's differ from least |
Foster's larger with orange bill and full black cap. Least has yellow bill with white forehead. Current least tern population estimated around 70,000 - least concern. |
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How do semi-palmated differ from piping? |
Piping are paler overall and have an incomplete breast band. In flight piping has white band across top of the tail. |
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How do forsters differ from common? |
Forsters long deeply forked tail. Common has more black in wing tips. Breeding forsters has orange rather than red bill of common. |
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Baptisia sphaerocarpa - yellow wild indigo Bapto- to dye, sphaerocarpa- well rounded fruit Dry to average moisture |
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Current estimate least tern population |
18,000. Population goal is 7000. Plummeted to 2000. Protecected in 1985 ESA. |
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How many insects day tree swallows eat? |
2000 during nesting season |
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Best time of year to plant forb seed? And native grass? |
Forb seed in fall. Grass in the spring. |
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Type of nester are kestrel? |
Obligate secondary cavity nester - don't make their own nest cavity |
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Size of kestrel |
9'', 4oz |
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Difference in germination times for E. frumentacea vs E. muricata |
Frumentacea germinate early. Muricata is late drawdown germination. |
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Yellow nutsedge |
Conspicuous channel along central vien of each leaf blade. Red root does not have tubers or rhizomes. |
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Merlin vs Kestrel |
Kestrel much less streaked below and lack white tail bands. Female kestrels have barring on the back unlike solid brown back of merlins. |
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Bonaparte vs Franklin's |
Bonaparte smudge behind eye, flashy white panels outer wing. Franklin's thick eye crescents, limited black on wing tips. |
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Kriders: Named after gunsmith John Krider from Philadelphia who collected the type specimen. |
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Quercus meaning |
'Beautiful tree' Celtic origin |
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Range of pinoak acorn production |
2000-170,000 sound acorns/acre = 150-2500 lbs/acre |
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What age class should oaks be maintained to maximize acorn production? |
40-75 years |
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Difference in bobbing behavior between Solitary vs spotted sandpiper |
Solitary bobs head/foreparts. spot bobs tail |
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What is the only accipter seen in the summer in St Louis? |
Coopers - rapid flaps with coasting in between |
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