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Utah Birds
Photo Quiz Answer
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Quiz # 016 (September 2011)
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Audio Quiz
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Comments:
Our quiz this month was another beautiful recording Kevin Colver. The
recording starts with a call familiar to most birders, the Killdeer.
The second species is a bit more difficult. It isn’t a particularly
tricky call, but the problem is that even though it breeds in Utah
there is a pretty good chance that a lot of us have never heard it
before. As Kevin said on his website, “Unless you spend a lot of time
lying quietly on the open mudflats, you are unlikely to hear the calls
and courtship activity of the diminutive Snowy Plover” - the
second bird in the recording. Snowy Plovers breed around the Great
Salt Lake and possibly a few other locations, but a lot of the areas
are either hard or impossible to access. I can only remember hearing
them once. It was at Lincoln Beach a few years ago when Utah Lake was
really low and there was a lot of beach.
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Correct Answers (in order
received):
1. Ann Neville
2. Eric Huish
3. Craig Fosdick
4. Stephanie Greenwood
5. Weston Smith
6. Stephanie Peterson
7. Leah Lewis
Incorrect Answers:
4 people got the
Killdeer but didn’t get the Snowy Plovers
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