Lab #2 Ornithology Biology 4142

Falconiformes
Accipitridae:
hawks and eagles
Osprey*
Swallow-tailed Kite*
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk Ý
Bald Eagle*
Northern Harrier (male and female)


Falconidae:
falcons
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
American Kestrel (male and female)


Gruiformes
Gruidae:
cranes
Sandhill Crane*
Whooping Crane*

Rallidae: rails and coots
Clapper Rail Ý
King Rail Ý
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
(formerly called "Common Gallinule")
American Coot


Charadriiformes
Recurvirostridae:
avocets and stilts
American Avocet
Black-necked Stilt

Charadriidae: plovers
Killdeer
Snowy Plover (nonbreeding plumage)
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
(no specimen in public exhibits)
American Golden Plover (non-breeding plumage) (
formerly called "Lesser Golden Plover")
Black-bellied Plover (non-breeding plumage)


Scolopacidae:
sandpipers
Ruddy Turnstone (non-breeding plumage)
[note: placed in Charadriidae in Peterson]
Long-billed Curlew
Willet (non-breeding plumage)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper (non-breeding plumage)
Sanderling (non-breeding plumage)
Dunlin (non-breeding plumage)
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper (
non-breeding plumage; note that exhibit specimen is in breeding plumage)
Least Sandpiper (
non-breeding plumage;
note that exhibit specimen is in breeding plumage)
Long-billed Dowitcher (
non-breeding plumage;
note that exhibit specimen is in breeding plumage)
Wilson's Snipe
(name recently changed from "Common Snipe")
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope (breeding plumage female)

 

*see mounted specimens in public exhibit area
Ý note UV lights have faded the plumage of the exhibit specimens