Puzzled By Birds 2: Day One

From Oak Harbor, Ohio, Kenn and Kimberly write: Back in January we did a new kind of bird identification puzzle on our blog. It was so popular that one of us (we won’t tell you what her name was) has been suggesting ever since that we should run this kind of puzzle again. It was so popular that our friends over at BirdJam copied it for an app called BirdJam Twitch, which is pretty cool. But our version is free and it lasts longer! So we're proud to present another "Puzzled By Birds" for your enjoyment and / or aggravation.


So here is our next installment of this new kind of bird identification quiz. The picture here is a kind of digital jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces removed. The original photo was of a bird that occurs regularly in North America. Can you tell, from the pieces visible here, what kind of bird this is? (If you can, you’re some kind of super-birder! Please come help Kenn with finishing his update of Advanced Birding!)

For the next 8 days, we’ll be posting this picture again each day (about 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight time) with a few more of the pieces added. You’ll gradually be able to see more of the bird and its habitat. When you think you know what it is, send us a comment. We won’t publish the comments unless you specifically ask us to publish them when the quiz is over - - but we’ll keep tabs on them, so we’ll be able to announce who was the first to correctly identify the bird. We hope that you’ll enjoy this little challenge and that it will give you a few minutes of interesting concentration on how to identify a bird without seeing all the field marks at once.