Sunday, January 11, 2009

Puzzled By Birds: Day One

From back in December, Kenn and Kim write: If our trip is running on schedule, today we will have left the Falklands to head east-southeast through the wild waters of the South Atlantic, heading for remote South Georgia Island. Communicating from there may be a distinct challenge -- so we thought we’d give YOU a distinct challenge, in the form of a brand new kind of bird quiz.
Here’s a new kind of bird identification quiz. The picture here is a kind of digital jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces removed. Can you tell, from the pieces visible here, what kind of bird this is? (If you can, you’re some kind of super-birder!)

For the next 8 days, assuming that we got the settings right, we’ll be posting this picture again each day (about noon Eastern 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. Your comments won’t actually appear on the blog until we’re back in the U.S. to moderate them, but we’ll know who answered correctly first, and we’ll send you some kind of fabulous prize
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