BIRD IDENTIFICATION
NOTE: This is now a scored event in the competition toward the trophies.
Description: Identify birds of Ohio using many sources and answer
questions about birds of Ohio
Number of Participants: 2
The Competition
1. The event will be birds of Ohio, past and present.
2. Team members will go to several stations.
3. Some questions will require written explanation [e.g. what is
this type of beak used for? Why can more than one kind of bird
live in this habitat?]
4. When a bird is named by a team member, the name must be that which
is found in Petersons Field Guide to Eastern Birds. [e.g.
cardinal is incorrect, Northern Cardinal is correct; junco is
wrong, Slate Colored Junco is correct.]. However, no guide book
is allowed in this competition.
5. Some answers requiring a written explanation may be given more
weight than naming a bird, multiple choice, or one-word answers.
6. The following are some of the topics which may be used:
feet, external parts of birds, habitat, identify bird by seeing its
wing or silhouette, identify bird by hearing its call, identify bird by egg, use of
dioramas to answer questions, mounted birds for identification,
identify bird by nest, identify bird from picture, identify bird by its
skin, or beaks.
Tie Breaker [if any]
TBA by judge on date of Olympiad
