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What's a Neotropic???
Some of you have been a little puzzled about what ‘neotropic migrants’ are. Well here is an opportunity to discover just how much you already know about them. You might be surprised to find how much you do know!
1.
Which of the following groups of birds are neotropic migrants?
 
A) Swifts & Swallows
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager
B) Tanagers & Orioles
C) Wood Warblers & Sandpipers
D) All of the above.
Barred Owl
Barred Owl
2.
This species of owl is a neotropical migrant:
 
A) Barred Owl
Saw-whet Owl
Saw-whet Owl
B) Flammulated Owl
C) Northern Saw-whet Owl
D) None of the above.
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
3.
Which raptor is threatened by loss of tropical forest habitat?
 
A) Osprey
Osprey
Osprey Brad Kuntz ©2006
B) Swainsons’s Hawk
C) Broad-wing Hawk
D) All of the above.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
4.
Which of the following woodpeckers are neotropical migrants?
 
A) Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Red-cocked woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
B) Black-Backed Woodpecker
C) Red-cockaded Woodpecker
D) None of the above.
Pine Warbler
Pine Warbler
5.
This endangered neotropical migrant nests in jack-pine forests in Michigan and winters in the Bahamas.
 
A) Pine Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow Warbler by Brad Kuntz©2006
B) Yellow Warbler
C) Canada Warbler
D) Kirtland’s Warbler
  Answers to Neotropic Questions
 
 
 
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