“Let’s go to the creek,” I say. “Sounds good to me,” Grandma says, and we start walking and listening to the sounds along the way. If it’s spring, we hear lots of frogs, and I’ll catch one or two but never hurt them. We hear birds and bugs and all sorts of stuff. If you listen like we do, you’ll get a good grade on this quiz.
1. Grandma read a story from Illinois Audubon Summer 2022 to me. It told about how scientists played the recorded sound of a male bobwhite’s whistle “bob-white, bob-white.” Wild bobwhites came to check it out and found a new good habitat. Which photo shows the bobwhite?
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2. On a spring day, I like to hear a bird’s song which sounds like “whooo-ooo-oo-oo.” Some people think the song sounds sad, but I think the bird is happy about springtime.Sometimes I hear the bird’s wings whistle when it flies away. Which bird is it?
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3. Sometimes at night I hear a raspy barking, but it is not a dog. Once I saw that animal’s furry red tail with a white tip disappear into a hole under the barn. Which mammal is it?
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4. Sometimes I think I hear birds saying their own names. One kind of bird perches in a tree near the bird feeder. Those black, white, and gray little birds say “chick-a-de-de-de, chick-a-de-de-de.” Which photo shows chickadees?
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5. Everybody says that ducks go “quack,” but some types of wild ducks don’t. I was helping Grandpa put new wood shavings in wood duck nest boxes one day in March when we scared two wood ducks off the lake. They said “squeak, squeak, squeak” as they flew away from our boat. Which is a picture of a nest box made for wood ducks?
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6. I hear different frogs’ and toads’ sounds at different times of the year (spring through fall). On warm summer nights I hear frogs saying “ba-rooom ba-rooom.” I hear toads’ voices too. People say the toads’ sound is a “trilling.” Which photo shows a toad, not a frog?
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7. I think katydids make their humming sound by rubbing their wings together. Once I caught a cicada, and it made a loud buzz, but it wasn’t rubbing its wings together. Which is a cicada?
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8. A male greater prairie-chicken has bright orange skin on each side of its neck. He fills the skin sacs with air and then pushes the air out and makes a loud hum. But, the hen prairie-chicken doesn’t make much noise. Which is the male prairie-chicken?
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9. In our yard we have some squirrels with reddish brown fur and squirrels that are smaller and have gray fur. The two types have different voices. Which one says “chuck-chuck-chuck”?
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10. You probably know that tom wild turkeys say “gobble, gobble,” but did you know that the hens say “yelp, yelp, yelp” and “purrr putt”? The turkeys call back and forth to each other. Which picture shows a female eastern wild turkey?
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