16 January 2024
Time for a quiz!
Name at least 5 bird species native to southern Africa in the Old World that also occur in the New World (the Americas). The regions to consider are green on the map above.
Hint: There’s a surprising number of wading birds!
Leave a comment with your answer. My answer will be in the comments, too.
Peregrine falcon, cattle egret, harrier hawk, snow goose
Occur or native in the New World?
Peregrine Falcon
Rosy-Faced Lovebird
Black-Bellied/Gray Plover
Eurasian Starling
Cattle Egret
This is my exhaustive list but I’ll bet I’m missing a few & have probably included some vagrants.
Fulvous Whistling Duck (hah! My Life bird was in FL)
Black-necked (Eared) Grebe (“Black-necked?” I think it’s the same species as Eared)
Common Moorhen
Bar-tailed Godwit
Red Phalarope
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Long-tailed Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
South Polar Skua (My Life Bird of this species was in Gulf of Maine)
Sabine’s Gull (yay!)
(Common) Black-headed Gull (vagrants to Moraine S.P.)
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Black Skimmer
White Tern (In Hawaii too)
Sooty Tern
Gull-billed Tern (saw one in FL)
Caspian Tern (everywhere)
Black Tern
Arctic Tern
Common Tern
Sandwich Tern
Great Frigatebird (These are in S. Am.)
Red-footed Booby
Brown Booby
Masked Booby
Black-crowned Night Heron (go figure!)
Green-backed (Striated) Heron (seen in Panama)
Western Cattle Egret (flew to S.Am on their own & then headed north)
Great Egret
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
(Western) Barn Owl
Peregrine Falcon
Barn Swallow
Northern Wheatear (breeds in artic incl western AK, winters in southern Africa)
White Wagtail (Alaska too)