CORMORANTS: Dark diving birds with slender, hooked bills. Swim with body low. Stand upright; hold wings open to dry after diving. Fly in a line or a V, with long neck extended, flapping and coasting.
•CROWS AND RAVENS: Large black birds with stout bills; tails wedge-shaped in ravens. Walk on ground; often travel in bunches and mob predators; ravens soar.
CUCKOOS: Slender, robin-sized birds with slightly downcurved bills and long tails. Skulk in vegitation; fly very fast in beeline.
DUCKS: Stocky or slender waterfowl, smaller than geese or swans, with flattened bills. Dabbling ducks feed at surface, often tipping up; bay and sea ducks dive from surface. Most fly in formations, on rapid wingbeats; some fly with necks extended or have erratic flight.
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•FINCHES: Seed-eating birds; usually with red, pink, or yellow; most have short, conical bills, but crossbills have crossed mandibles for extracting seeds from cones. Fly in bunches, with bounding flight.
•FLYCATCHERS: Mostly dully colored, very small to robin-sized birds. Most perch upright and dart out after passing insects; many flick tail; hold tail pointed downward. (Strictly speaking not songbirds, but so closely related in behavior, shape and posture, and color and pattern that the group is included as songbirds.)
GEESE: Long-necked waterfowl with stout bills. Swim and feed at water surface, often tipping up; usually walk on land. Fly in formation with slow wingbeats and necks extended.
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