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Ok, FINALLY here's the answer...

 

This quiz obviously was a video quiz, we have one bird visible (and also singing), and the other species are heard only. We'll start with the visible bird and discuss what we can see on the bird even with the poor video quality. The underparts of the bird are gray with a yellowish wash, but the throat seems pretty contrastingly gray. We can also note that the crown on the bird seems darker, maybe greenish in color. At certain times we can see the eye, though not very well. From the glances I get it looks kind of odd... Let's try to get the bird into a family, it is no doubt a Passerine, it's perching almost flycatcher-like, though the overall shape of the bird seems to be more warbler or vireo like. The great thing about being able to hear the bird is we can rule out everything simply by the song. The song seems to have an emphatic beginning and end, while the middle is more of a jumble. We can go through every flycatcher song and won't find anything remotely close. There's also not a single warbler that sounds remotely close. Most vireos tend to be whistled phrases rather than a jumble like this bird. Warbling Vireo doesn't have the whistled phrases, but it's song is usually longer without the emphatic ending, plus the song is usually ascending. White-eyed Vireo fits perfectly. This particular song my not fit exactly like the recording you listened to, but the quality should be the same. White-eyes usually start off the song with an emphatic "cheer" or "chip", then a jumble, then another emphatic "cheer" or "chip" to end it off.

Now for the singing birds in the background, this isn't really going to involve a descriptive answer because the birds are not visible.

In the first 2 seconds we have a bird that a lot of you seemed to think was a Carolina Wren, but notice how high and thin the song is, it seems more whistled. It fits better for Common Yellowthroat. Also in the first 2 seconds (as well as throughout the video) we have a Northern Cardinal "chinking". At the 3rd second we here a rapid almost laugh-like song. The overall quality sounds like a White-breasted Nuthatch, but it's way too rapid, it sounds more like a Yellow-breasted Chat from what I can make out. At seconds 5 and 6 we hear a bird repeating phrases paired in twos, it would really be hard to ID this one, but you'll just have to trust me that it's a Brown Thrasher. Also at about second 5 we can hear an American Crow cawing.

 

Philadelphia Vireo - 1

 

 

Valleygirl 

 

Here's the scoreboard (if you would prefer not to play for points, just let me know)

 

tim.birdboy -- 14

Bird Man of Texas -- 12

Valleygirl -- 12