Look and name the bird. Each round shows 10 pictures, drawn at random from 48 shorebirds of North America in the Birbs encyclopedia, with four names to choose from. Every round is different — play as often as you like.
Guess the Bird
Can you name the bird from its picture? A fresh round every time you play.
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Each picture is credited with its question where its author and licence are recorded.
The 48 shorebirds of North America in this quiz
- American Avocet
- American Golden Plover
- American Oystercatcher
- American Woodcock
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Black Oystercatcher
- Black Turnstone
- Black-necked Stilt
- Bristle-thighed Curlew
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Eskimo Curlew
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Grey Plover
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Killdeer
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Marbled Godwit
- Mountain Plover
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Piping Plover
- Purple Sandpiper
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Rock Sandpiper
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sanderling
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Surfbird
- Upland Sandpiper
- Wandering Tattler
- Western Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Willet
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Plover
- Wilson’s Snipe