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At Super Quiz Bowl on June 1, 2017, teams of students, alumni and faculty members put their knowledge to the test during a fun-filled trivia night. Photos by George Foulsham and Les Dunseith
It is my nephew's first year to quiz!!!
We memorize and quiz on a few chapters on a yearly basis as a church in to promote fellowship in the memorization of God's Word. This year is 1 Peter 1-2.
Quiz Show - Alternative Movie Poster
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picture from Dollmeet Linz 5th September 2015
The doll belongs to a friend (not mine, I just did the faceup)
At Super Quiz Bowl on June 1, 2017, teams of students, alumni and faculty members put their knowledge to the test during a fun-filled trivia night. Photos by George Foulsham and Les Dunseith
Alabama A&M University Quiz Bowl Team members compete at the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge. Nine other HBCU's came together to compete in the HCASC quiz bowl tournament. (Photo by Sabree Hill/ Dillard University Photographer)
Quiz #11 04/14/08-04/27/08
From a scary gull to a scary LBB? Nah, nothing scary here. Sure its an LBB but we can see it quite well, eliminating one of the hardest aspects to IDing LBBs; catching up with the little buggers. Due to the conical bill and overall plumage I don’t think anyone will argue with starting with finches and sparrows. Our bird has distinct streaks on the breast and flanks but the belly is rather plain and white. With the exception of the Redpolls, few finches have such a combination in the underparts plumage. Furthering our elimination process we can see a strong supercilium (eyebrow), malar (mustache), and a hint of a central breast spot. These bring us to a somewhat small group of sparrows.
We could go into detail on the characteristics of the breast streaks and overall background color, both of which are important to look at, but lets look at some more obvious field marks. What color is the bill? The fact that this bird’s bill is mostly pink should raise some possibilities and eliminate quite a few options including Song and Lincoln’s Sparrows, both famous for the central breast spot (the “Medal for Excellent Singing.”) Next lets look at the tail. Rectrice (tail feather) pattern can be extremely helpful in IDing sparrows, especially as they fly away and expose the outer two rectrices (R5 and R6). R5 and R6 often hold the key to IDing birds in general. Just think of Horned Larks and Yellow-rumped Warblers. While this pattern is often a known field mark on flying birds we have to remember that on perched birds we are seeing the underside of both R6s. This quiz bird shows very broadly white R6s. This eliminates all those sparrows with all-dark tails. One sparrow, Vesper Sparrow has particularly white outer rectrices.
To confirm let’s look at the face. This bird shows a broad, complete white eye-ring something that is particularly important to look for on potential Vespers. This bird shows all you need to ID a Vesper Sparrow. Don’t even think about the rufous lesser coverts, they’re hardly ever visible anyway.
I took this picture of a VESPER SPARROW near Cle Elum, Washington in April, 2007.
ANSWER:
VESPER SPARROW
CONGRATULATIONS:
Nanette Armstrong
Rich Armstrong
Thomas Hall
Elaine Stewart
Larry McQueen
Mark Nikas
ANSWER BREAKDOWN:
Vesper Sparrow - 6