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Worksheets2016 STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT SENIOR GAME BIRD BIOLOGY EXAM
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is the name of this bird?
Ruffed Grouse
Woodcock
Bobwhite Quail
Snipe
What is the name of this bird?
Canvasback
Mallard
Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser
What is the name of this bird?
Mallard
Green Winged Teal
Wood Duck
Ruffed Grouse
What is the name of this bird?
Snipe
Woodcock
Clapper Rail
Mourning Dove
What is the name of this bird?
Bobwhite Quail
Woodcock
Snipe
Ruffed Grouse
What is the name of this bird?
Mallard
Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser
Green Winged Teal
What is the name of this bird?
Barred Owl
Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Crow
The Screech Owl is …..
Patterned with complex bands and spots that give the bird excellent camouflage against tree bark. Eyes are yellow.
Patterned with grey smudges and feathers that give the bird excellent camouflage against tree bark. Eyes are green.
Patterned with complex bands and yellow spots that give the bird excellent camouflage against tree bark. Eyes are blue.
Patterned with brown bands and red spots that give the bird excellent camouflage against tree bark. Eyes are black.
Red-tailed hawks typically put their nests …..
In holes and cavities, but never dig a cavity themselves. Thus, they depend on tree holes opened or enlarged by woodpeckers, fungus, rot, or squirrels.
In pines, oaks, douglas-firs, beeches, spruces, and other tree species, often on flat ground rather than hillsides, and in dense woods. Nests are typically 25 – 50 feet high, often about two-thirds of the way up the tree in a crotch or on a horizontal branch.
Among dense sedges and other emergent plants in marshes.
In the crowns of tall trees where they have a commanding view of the landscape. They may also nest on a cliff ledge or on artificial structures such as window ledges and billboard platforms.
What is the Order and Family for the American Kestrel?
Accipitriformes, Accipitridae
Strigiformes, Strigidae
Falconiformes, Falconidae
Anseriformes, Anatidae
The Great Horned Owl is a regular victim of harassment from flocks of American Crows. Crows congregate from long distances to mob owls, and may continue yelling at them for hours. The enmity of the crows is well earned, however, as the owl is probably the most important predator on adult crows and nestlings.
True
False
Cooper’s Hawks show the classic _______ flight style: a few stiff wingbeats followed by short glides. But in pursuit of prey their flight becomes powerful, quick, and very agile, allowing the bird to thread its way through tree branches at top speed.
Accipiter
Loping
Swoopiter
Diving
The _____________ is the most serious predatory threat to the Barred Owl. Although the two species often live in the same areas, a barred Owl will move to another part of its territory when this predator is nearby.
Red-tailed hawk
Barred Owl
Great Horned Owl
Crow
With this bird full adult plumage is not attained until sexual maturity at about 5 years of age. The total length ranges from 30 – 43 inches, the wingspread from 72 – 98 inches, and the weight from 8 – 12 pounds. Females are noticeably larger than males, and the average size of both sexes increases with latitude such that birds nesting in the northern states are significantly larger than birds nesting in southern states. Which of the following fits this description?
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Screech Owl
Coopers Hawk
The flexible tip of the American Woodcock’s bill is specialized for ………
Making a shrill call to attract a mate.
Breathing under water.
Catching earthworms.
All of the above
During the breeding season male woodcock perform a magnificent courtship display sometimes referred to as “_____________”.
The peeting dance
Ground dancing
Sky dancing
The dating game
What happens with Wood Ducks if nest boxes are placed too close together?
They will not use the nest boxes.
Many females will lay eggs in the nests of other females.
They will cannibalize the eggs from the nests near them.
Predators will have a higher chance of finding them.
What is the correct rate for broadcasting Chufa for Wild Turkey?
1 – 2 pounds per acre.
5 – 10 pounds per acre.
40 – 50 pounds per acre.
140 – 150 pounds per acre.
Which of the following describes the clutch size and eggs of the Snipe?
They lay 2 – 4 eggs that are dark or pale brown, covered by darker spots.
They lay 6 – 16 eggs that are glossy creamy white or tan.
They lay 2 – 8 eggs that are creamy white and around 3.3 inches long.
They lay 16 – 18 eggs that are pale bluish-green to olive green with blotches of brown and gray toward the large end and 1.4 – 1.9 inches long.
The Ruffed Grouse male has a unique behavior used to call mates and defend territories within a range of about 5 acres. _________ - beating the wings while standing on a stump or horizontal log – begins in March. What is this behavior called?
Drumming
Thumbing
Rumbling
Sparring
What is the Order and Family of the Ring-necked Duck?
Gruifromes, Rallidae
Colinus, Virginianus
Passeriformes, Corvidae
Anseriformes, Anatidae
Which of the following would be a description of the diet of a mourning dove?
They eat aquatic insects such as midge larvae, crustaceans, clams, and snails as well as vegetation and grains.
They concentrate their feeding on grasses and sedges, including skunk cabbage leaves and eelgrass.
They eat a vast array of foods, including grains, seeds, nuts, fruits, berries, and many kinds of small animals such as earthworms and mice. They also eat many insects.
Seeds make up 99% of their diet, including cultivated grains and even peanuts, as well as wild grasses, weeds, herbs, and occasionally berries. They sometimes eat snails.
What is the condition of the population of Clapper Rails in the United States?
The western subspecies is endangered and the eastern form is abundant.
The western subspecies is abundant and the eastern form is endangered.
The western subspecies and the eastern are abundant.
The western subspecies and the eastern are endangered.
What Game Birds are the most widespread and abundant duck in North America. Their numbers increase during wet periods and decline when there are droughts in the middle of the continent – over the last 50 years their estimated numbers have cycled between about 5 million and 11 million.
Wood Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged teal
Canada Goose
On adult wild turkey males, beards average about ____ inches long. The longest beard on record is more than ___ inches long.
5, 24
6, 22
7, 20
9, 18
