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Birds
Upland Gamebirds
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
09/01/2012

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Ruffed Grouse

-Black band then w/ white tip

-Brown body

-White w/ chevron black belly

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Sooty Grouse

-light band on tip of all black tail

-plumage is generally dark

-yellow bare skin on side of neck when displaying

-yellow over the eye

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Dusky Grouse

-Light grey band on tip of all blck tail

-Purpleish red skin on side of neck when displaying

-Red over the eye

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Rock Pigeon

 

-Red eye

-Irredecent green on the neck

-Black bands on wings

-Grey/white belly

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Greater Sage Grouse

 

Rounded wings

Yellow over the eye

Long pointed tail

Balckish Brown throat

Display has olive green air sacs

White breast

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Gunnison Sage Grouse

 

Long pointed tail

Yellow above the eyes

Black throat

White chest

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Sharp-tailed Grouse

 

Purple neck sac

Scaled underparts

Short crest on brown

Yellow comb over eye

Narrow tail w/ white outer feathers

Whitish plumage with darker brown, black and tan

Dots on wing feather!

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Greater Prairie-Chicken

 

Yellow air sacs on throat

Dark rounded tail w/ white tip

Fake "Ears", pointed

'Barred' black and white lines along body

Yellow over eye

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Rock Ptarmigan

 

Brown and white in summer

White in winter

Black line through eye in winter

Red comb over eye

Black tip on tail

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White-Tailed Ptarmigan

 

ALLLL White in winter

Little red over eye

Small black bill

NO black on tail

 

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Willow Ptarmigan

 

Black tail

Stout bill

Red head with red backing

Red over eye but no black line through eye

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Northern Bobwhite

 

Male: White over face

Female: Yellowish over face

Dark streak through eye

Brownish coloring

Chevron on belly

 

 

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Scaled Quail

 

Little White mohawk on top of head

Has scale like feather from head to feet

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Mountain Quail

 

Things sticking out of head

Cheasnut throat outlined in white

Cheastnut sided with white barring

Grey head and breast

Olive Back

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Gambel's Quail

 

Red creast on head

Black forehead and black chin

Grey/blue chest

Cheastnut side with white vertical barring

Feather out of head

 

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California Quail

 

Blue Chest

Scaled Belly!

Bluff colored forehead

Black chin & outlined

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Mourning Dove

 

Beige coloring

pinkish wash on underparts

Black spots on wings

Black bill

Black mark on lower neck

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Lesser Prairie Chicken

 

 

 

 

 

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Band-Tailed Pigeon

 

White mark on back of neck

Irredecent feather on back of neck

Round tail

Band on tail

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