Lab #1 - Ornithology Biology 4142**

Galliformes
Odontophoridae: New World quail (formerly included in Phasianidae)
Northern Bobwhite (formerly called "Common Bobwhite")

Meleagrididae : turkeys
Wild Turkey*

Anseriformes
Anatidae: waterfowl
Fulvous Whistling-Duck*
Tundra Swan* (formerly called "Whistling Swan")
Greater White-fronted Goose*
Snow Goose (white & blue morphs)*
Ross's Goose *
Canada Goose*
Cackling Goose* (only recently treated as separate species from Canada Goose; see specimen labelled "hutchinsii" in Public Exhibits)
Wood Duck*
Mallard *
Mottled Duck*
Northern Pintail* (formerly called "Common Pintail")
Green-winged Teal*
Blue-winged Teal*
Northern Shoveler*
Gadwall*
American Wigeon*
Redhead*
Canvasback*
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead*
Hooded Merganser*
Red-breasted Merganser (male* and female)
Ruddy Duck (winter male only)

Podicipediformes
Podicipedidae: grebes
Horned Grebe* (winter plumage)
Pied-billed Grebe

Gaviiformes
Gaviidae: loons
Common Loon (winter plumage)*

Procellariiformes
Procellariidae: shearwaters
Audubon's Shearwater

Hydrobatidae: storm-petrels
Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Pelecaniformes
Pelecanidae: pelicans
Brown Pelican*
American White Pelican* (formerly called "White Pelican")

Phalacrocoracidae: cormorants
Double-crested Cormorant*

Anhingidae: darters
Anhinga* (formerly called "American Anhinga")

Fregatidae: frigatebirds
Magnificent Frigatebird*

Ciconiiformes
Ardeidae: herons
Great Blue Heron*
Green Heron (formerly called "Green-backed Heron")
Cattle Egret
Great Egret*
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron*
Tricolored Heron* (formerly called "Louisiana Heron")
Black-crowned Night-Heron* ("Night Heron" formerly not hyphenated)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
American Bittern*
Least Bittern

Threskiornithidae: ibises
White-faced Ibis
White Ibis*
Roseate Spoonbill*

Ciconiidae: storks
Wood Stork*

[Order uncertain]
Cathartidae (formerly placed in Ciconiiformes or Falconiformes): vultures
Black Vulture*
Turkey Vulture*

* see mounted specimen in public exhibit area of Museum

** if there is any plumage variation, learn BREEDING PLUMAGE ADULT MALE, unless stated otherwise, in this and all subsequent labs