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Two Artistic Monday Mysteries
Every spring, I read my Celery Farm children's books to Mrs. Jones' class at the Temple Hill School in Newburgh, and I also showed them photos that Jerry Barrack had taken of other birds at the Celery Farm over a decade ago.
One student thought the bird above looked like "a Chinese chicken."
Another called the bird below a "Mohawk bird."
The following day they decided to drew these birds from memory.
What real-life bird looks like a Chinese chicken?
Which looks like it has a Mohawk?
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1. Immature Turducken 2. Red-bellied Woodpecker.
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Chinese Chicken: Wood Duck (hen)
Mohawk: Red-bellied Woodpecker (male) -
Woodpecker for the second one and turkey for the first.
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Joe Koscielny
1. Immature Turducken 2. Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Diane L
Chinese Chicken: Wood Duck (hen)
Mohawk: Red-bellied Woodpecker (male)
Marianne Herrmann
Woodpecker for the second one and turkey for the first.