Easy way to ID birds

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Various bird heads and plumages. Do you know these birds?

Shapes

Walking and wading birds

Large flightless birds

Very big birds, some taller than man, mostly with long legs and necks. Some live in open country and survive by their ability to walk or run long distances.

Includes birds such as ostriches, rheas, the Emperor Penguin, cassowaries and emus.

Ostrich

Rheas

Emperor Penguin

Cassowary

Emu

Smaller flightless birds

Birds from pigeon- to chicken-sized that live on the ground and hide in vegetation or in burrows; some are nocturnal.

Includes birds such as kiwis, mesites, small penguins, the Kagu, the Takahe, the Kakapo and the Weka.

Kiwis

Mesite

A small penguin, African Penguins

Kagu

Takahe

Kakapo

Weka

Smaller runners with short bills

Ranging from pigeon- to chicken-size, these birds that spend most or all of their time on the ground, often feeding on seeds but that can fly when necessary.

Includes birds such as quails, stone-curlews, tinamous, guans, sheathbills, partridges, coursers, grouse, buttonquails, the Plains-wanderer, sandgrouse, guineafowl and seedsnipes.

Quail (New World)

Quail (Old World)

Stone-curlew

Tinamou

Guan

Sheathbill

Partridge

Courser

Grouse

Buttonquail

Plains-wanderer

Sandgrouse

Pheasant

Seedsnipe

Shape of bills

Gull: general purpose bill with hooked tip, used for tearing open animal food.

Barbet: Short, stout bill with a fringe of bristles at the base, used for eating fruit

Hawk: Hooked bill used for tearing open animal food, but rarely for catching prey

Curlew: Exceptionally long bill, with a sensitive tip, used to locate worms deep in mud.

Bee-eater: Sharp, narrow bill used for capturing insects in midair, and deactivating stings.

Plover: Short, sensitive bill enables plovers to find and feed on smaller food items than many other waders.

Heron: Long, daggerlike bill impales mainly fish, but frogs, snails and insects in shallow water.

Spoonbill: Unique spoon-shaped tip is used to feel and trap molluscs, crustaceans, and fish in water.

Woodpecker: Sharp bill and very long tongue used to extract insects from wood, or on the ground.

References

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