Backyard
Raptors
Prehistoric
Impact
Waterfowl
100

This bird has a stunning yellow color to it, and the males are extremely bright, while the females are darker to blend in when they are protecting the nest.

What is a Gold Finch?

100

This raptor is very famous, mostly because it is the bird that is associated with the U.S. Despite its name, this bird has a brown head in the juvenile stage, then a white one as an adult.

What is a Bald Eagle?

100

This small bird is very well known, and its name it only repeated twice. It went extinct not very long ago.

What is a Dodo?

100
This is the number of how many pests birds eat annually, like insects, rodents, and other small creatures.

What is 400 to 550 million tons?

100

This birds name sounds like the name of a shark, and it is all white with a long yellow beak. It stands above the water, looking down for fish or other small things.

What is a Great White Egret?
200

This bird is a type is swallow, with a color in its name, it likes to hang out with tree swallows and others.

What is a Purple Martin?

200

This bird is seen over rivers and nesting by them, with a white underbelly and a black top, it surveys the rivers.

What is an Osprey?

200

This small bird actually glided, not flew, from the tops of trees, and it had an amazing climbing ability.

What is a Microraptor?

200

If these birds are decreased enough, rodents will overrun many natural resources.

What are owls?

200
This bird is a type of duck, males having a bright green head and females blending in.

What is a Mallard?

300

This dove is larger than its cousin, and is actually invasive. It mates for life, so it is normally seen in pairs. It is white with a collar of black around its neck.

What is a Eurasian Collard Dove?

300

This tiny raptor is part of the owl family, known for being tiny and discrete. It is a daytime hunter, and preys on birds larger than it, along with large insects.

What is the Northern Pygmy Owl?

300

This raptor was bigger, actually named after the state, and was alive in the early Cretaceous period. It is the largest raptor, with adults reaching up to 25 feet long.

What is an Utah raptor?

300

This is what birds help to fertilize after water sweeps up their guano, helping hundreds of other animals. 

What are Coral Reef Ecosystems?

300

This large bird could be classified as waterfowl, though some may oppose to it. This bird hangs out by the sea, and is alike to seagulls. 

What is a Wandering Albatross? (Or just Albatross)

400

This bird has a brown body, black head, and grey underbelly. It is seen hopping on the ground, eating seeds from flowers. (Hint: Starts with a "J")

What is a Junco?

400

This small raptor is found on wires by fields and hunt small mice, and it has white and grey covering its body.

What is a White Kite?

400

This tall, 8 foot flightless giant had a very large beak and tiny wings.

What is a Titanis?

400

Birds are often called this because of large declines in population serve as a warning of problems with the environment or predatory increases. (Cats, Invasive outsiders, etc.)

What is "Canaries in a coal mine"?

400

This bird is very skittish, and showing its colors only to others. It is hard to spot, and once it senses presence, it will not make a sound.

What is a Virginia Rail?

500

This bird is one of the least common types of pollen feeder in Oregon, and is the smallest bird in general. 

What is a Rofus Humming Bird?

500
This large bird is alike with another hawk, both with a color in their name. This one, however, is a lot bigger.

What is a Red Shouldered Hawk?

500

This large, Eagle-like creature lived in New Zealand (sorry), and preyed on humans, and other large birds, with a wingspan of up to 10 feet.

What is a Haast's Eagle?

500

This is the number of birds outdoor cats slaughter every year. 

What is 1.3 to 4 billion?

500

This waterfowl can only be seen some months here, and it makes a sound like water droplets falling.

What is a Bittern?