SirVive Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Estoy esperando ...⏳ 'taps foot and chews nails' ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Y'all know what time it is. It's 11:30 in Texas time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Liam said: Y'all know what time it is. It's 11:30 in Texas time! Now it is 1:30 Texas time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Thank you for your submissions!! This week's bird is a Tufted x Black-crested Titmouse hybrid! The dark plumage on the crest indicates Black-crested heritage, but the front is dusky brown and dark plumage in the crest is not as extensive as pure Black-crested. The crest is intermediate in length, in between Black-crested and Tufted. Here is more information. This photo was taken in Coryell County, Texas on February 21st. Those who guessed Tufted x Black-crested Titmouse get 3 points. Anyone who guessed any species within the genus Baeolophus gets 2 points and anyone who guessed any species in the family Paridae gets 1 point. Unliked Tufted Titmouse, Black-crested and hybrids are sexually dimorphic with females have lighter gray crests. Females and immatures are difficult to differentiate but definitive prebasic molt is complete by November, making this an adult female. However, since I did not include date there's no way to accurately differentiate adult female from immature of either sex, so additional points will not be given for age or sex. Here's the 11/05/21 scoreboard. _________________________________ 1. BirdingBoy, Kevin - 35 points 2. Connor Cochrane, TheBirdNuts - 32 points 3. BirdNrd - 31 points 4. Kerri - 30 points 5. stitch58 - 28 points 6. AidanB - 29 points 7. Avery, IKLland - 26 points 8. meghann - 27 points 9. Kansabirdguy, PalmWarbler - 24 points 10. Peromyscus - 20 points 11. MichaelLong - 19 points 12. SeanBirds - 17 points 13. Quiscalus quiscula - 15 points 14. PaulK - 13 points 15. EdHogg - 11 points 16. Johnd - 8 points 17. SirVive - 3 points 18. DanP - 2 points _________________________________ Let me know if I missed you on the scoreboard or if I made any other errors. Thanks again for your submissions! This week's quiz will be posted shortly. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Monthly quiz contest Since it is the first week of November, I will start the monthly scoreboard after this upcoming quiz photo. The quiz photo posted on November 26th will be the last quiz photo for the monthly quiz contest so even though the scoreboard will be posted on December 3rd, those points will count for the November contest and not the December contest. Quiz photo submissions I am now accepting your submissions for quiz photos! Please only keep one thread with me so my inbox doesn't explode. Quiz photo submissions as well as quiz guesses should be in the same DM thread to me. Include: species, age/sex/subspecies (if discernible), location, and date. Make sure they are at least the equivalent of a 2-star rating on Macaulay Library. Bad image quality should not be the main challenge to identification. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerri Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 To all my fellow birders who dared to guess .....whisper "Hybrid".....Congrats! Alas I was not brave enough :(. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 I should note that Black-crested and Tufted Titmouse have an extensive hybrid swarm zone where hybrids are more expected than either parent species. There is a LOT of introgression in this contact zone. This hybrid zone very conveniently follows the I-35 corridor in most of Texas from the OK border south to Corpus and is about 75-90mi wide at any given point: https://ebird.org/map/bcxtit1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Here is this week's quiz photo! Remember the rules on multiple birds from previous weeks! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) On 9/24/2021 at 1:23 PM, Liam said: This week's quiz includes multiple species! The rules apply to each species! You get 3 points for each species guessed correctly, though I won't disclose the number of species in the quiz. So, for example, if there are 6 species in a photo and you correctly guess all of them, you get 18 points!! Since there are three individuals, please refer to them by their position in the photo so I know what answer to assign to which individual. As usual, DM me your answers, preferably in the same thread you have used to correspond with me previously. I had to look this up so sharing for others as well Also, you're a sadist Edited November 5, 2021 by PaulK 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Thanks, Paul! I just wanted to remind everyone that for multiple birds, be sure to reference them as "Left Bird" and "Right Bird" or something similar when you DM me so I know which guess belongs to which bird. If you believe they are both the same species, you can just use the word "both" or "all", etc. Also, just because there's multiple birds doesn't necessarily mean they're different species. ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnd Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I only got that last one because i saw one a few weeks ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Kerri said: To all my fellow birders who dared to guess .....whisper "Hybrid".....Congrats! Alas I was not brave enough :(. Ah! you should have! I live in the hybrid range so it was not hard for me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Kevin said: Ah! you should have! I live in the hybrid range so it was not hard for me. lucky…..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVive Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 At first glance I thought 'at least here's an easy point - I can't flunk out completely by guessing any of the titmouse sp.' I took the hint that at least hybrids were a thing with this species and in about 5 min digging realized that it didn't match any of the purebreds so it wasn't too hard to make an educated guess. I was pretty sure I hadn't ever seen any of the species - later last week after I submitted my guess I happened to see what I thought was a lifer Tufted only to discover that I did have one previous sighting I had forgotten about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 15 hours ago, Liam said: Here is this week's quiz photo! Remember the rules on multiple birds from previous weeks! Let me make sure I have got those right, you get points for every specie, not every bird. Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 On 11/6/2021 at 7:40 AM, Kevin said: Let me make sure I have got those right, you get points for every specie, not every bird. Right? I guess I never clarified. You get points for every individual bird because each individual bird has the potential to be something different from any given bird in the photo. Of course, this is within reason. If I post a flock of 10,000 peeps you don't get 30,000 points for identifying every one. ? It's a case-by-case thing I guess. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor L. Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, Liam said: If I post a flock of 10,000 peeps... Foreshadowing???????? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Trevor L. said: Foreshadowing???????? I hope not! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVive Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 13 hours ago, Liam said: Of course, this is within reason. If I post a flock of 10,000 peeps you don't get 30,000 points for identifying every one. ? It's a case-by-case thing I guess. In that case you will be required to id every individual by an identifier (bird 1,2 etc) and get docked double points for every wrong id? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 Bump so people are reminded to send in guesses ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 I guess folks have lost interest ? Or they just hate Scaup ID... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor L. Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 11 minutes ago, Liam said: I guess folks have lost interest ? Or they just hate Scaup ID... Or they didn't get as bored as I did last Friday. I normally hate scaup ID, but this one was fun. Please ignore that I had to ask for help with a scaup ID literally a day after submitting my answer. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 12 minutes ago, Liam said: I guess folks have lost interest ? Or they just hate Scaup ID... Ok FINE I'll stop putting it off...? 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 15 minutes ago, Liam said: I guess folks have lost interest ? Or they just hate Scaup ID... Hey, gives me a chance at climbing a little on the scoreboard! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmWarbler Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 8 hours ago, Liam said: I guess folks have lost interest ? Or they just hate Scaup ID... Should I send in my guess in the same message thread or create a new one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now