| Main Home or ESL Home | San Diego Creek Trail | DIRECTIONS: Use the list to help you identify the animals and plants. You may use some words more than once. The number of underlined spaces matches the number of letters in the correct word. Put your cursor over the photograph for the answer. |
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 great __ __ __ __ __ 1. This heron has a YELLOW bill, black legs, and BLACK feet. |
 snowy __ __ __ __ __ 2. This heron has a BLACK bill, black legs, and YELLOW feet. |
 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ducks 3. The female duck is brown. The male duck has a green head and a yellow bill. |
 black-chinned __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 4. People hang feeders with nectar (water mixed with sugar) for these birds. |
 mud nests of cliff __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 5. They arrive in March from Argentina where they spend the winters. A famous song about them says, When the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ come back to Capistrano, that's the day I pray that you'll come back to me. |
 __ __ __ __ 6. It will eat small animals and birds. |
 turkey __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 7. It is also called a buzzard. You see them in old westerns (cowboy movies) circling for dead bodies. They are ugly birds but graceful fliers. |
 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 8. It will eat almost anything it finds at the beach. It can drink seawater, too. |
 American __ __ __ __ 9. This bird is also called a "mud hen" or a "marsh hen." It is usually seen in large groups. |
 10. brush __ __ __ __ __ __ This animal is sometimes difficult to see until it hops away. |
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 brown garden __ __ __ __ __ 11. |
 sagebrush __ __ __ __ __ __ 12. |
 oak __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 13. There is a Christmas tradition of kissing beneath a sprig of this parasitic shrub. |
 Russian thistle __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 14. In the fall, this bush dries, breaks loose, and is rolled all over by the wind to spread its seeds. |
