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Sarasota News Leader December 28, 2012 Page 99 The following are the answers to all the birds 6. Little Blue Heron. The transformation in the quiz: from the immature bird with its pure white feathering to its mottled shade of 1. Palm Warbler. Unless they are hopping blue with white, and on into adult coloramid the grasses in search of seeds and ing, always amazes me. insects, we hear them more often than we see them. But most of you named this bird 7. Great Blue Heron. correctly. 8. American Bald Eagle. 2. Downy Woodpecker (male ��� because of the red feathers on its head). It is 9. American White Ibis. Yes, the splotchy not a Hairy Woodpecker ��� and thank you, brown-feathered adolescents do someRick Greenspun, for the confirmation! My what resemble Limpkins. readers did not seem to need any reassur10. Yellow-crowned Night Heron. Who ance. You all knew what it was! would have thought that white speckled, 3. Florida Mottled Ducks. Most guesses shy-looking adolescent would turn into were close enough. this spectacular bird? 4. Cooper���s Hawk, immature. I usually close my eyes and hide when hawks are 11. Mangrove Raccoon-Masked Night Heron. Debate is still raging over this one. We around, so that is my best guess! Let me will just have to wait until ornithologists know if you disagree and why. Many readcome in with a final pronouncement. Until ers suggested, ���Red-Shouldered Hawk.��� then .... Now to the quiz���s ���tricky��� bird photos: This week they are pictured as you expect to see I wish you a peaceful New Year���s Eve. But do them, and you will recognize them immedi- consider earplugs, because that is the night ately. we night owls like to really hoot it up! 5. Snowy Egret. Now you know him! American White Ibis Otus