Phoebe's birds

Phoebe stayed home from school today so we had some fun with a bird quiz. I asked her to name as many birds as she could remember, and this is what she came up with. She wanted to list some boy and girl birds separately since she can tell them apart, but i told her we'd save that for next time. I don't think i could name 10 birds when I was her age. Her number 1 bird is one of my all-time favorites. Funny it's the first bird that came to her mind!

1. Cardinal
2. Merel - what the Europeans call a blackbird, but it's really a thrush
3. chickadee
4. Blackbird, but here she was thinking of the N.A. red-winged version
5. Goldfinch
6. House sparrow
7. House finch
8. Downy woodpecker - this is when she wanted to talk about differences between males and females
9. Dove, as in the wood dove which is more than abundant here
10. Mourning Dove
11. Parakeet, like Piet the ring-necked parakeet who visits our feeder every day around 2 pm
12. Flamingo - this came out of the blue!
13. long-tailed tits, which happened to be visiting our bird feeder just as we both looked outside
14. Bluebird
15. Bluejay, which she knows will predate eggs and slurp up the yolk, which is just how she likes to eat her eggs too
16. kingfisher
17. duck, like the one where the male has a green head she said
18. crane
19. Great blue heron
20. eagle, as in the Bald eagle she remembered
21. Vulture
22. Barn owl
23. Screech owl, which she pronounced something like skeerch owl
24. Barred owl, which says "who cooks for you, who cooks for you aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh"
25. Hummingbird
26. Blue tits
27. Magpie, which she's quick to point out when she sees them here - they're pretty neat birds.