Bird Brain: Over 2,400 Questions to Test Your Bird Knowledge

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1  Where would you go to see Troglodytes troglodytes zetlandicus?

2  Which adult passerine on the British List has red underparts and a broken eye-ring?

3  Of which American state is the Carolina Wren the state bird?

4  Which Finnish biologist had an Endangered Asian wader and the most popular variety of Christmas tree named after him?

5  What was the first British-ringed bird to be recovered abroad?

6  What bird was Shelley referring to when he wrote: ‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit!/Bird thou never wert,/That from heaven, or near it/Pourest thy full heart/In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.’

7  Which mammal have Great Tits been found regularly killing and eating in the Bukk Mountains in Hungary?

8  Which of the following birds does not exist: Cherry-throated Tanager, Orange-throated Tanager, Strawberry-spectacled Tanager, Lemon-spectacled Tanager?

9  183 kites and 285 buzzards were killed between 1807 and 1816 by game-keeping interests at the Burley Estate. Where is the Burley Estate?

10  What was the ornithological discovery of Edward Jenner (who introduced vaccination against smallpox), which resulted in his election to the Royal Society in 1789?

11  What is the ornithological traditional bingo call for 22?

12  Who was the compiler of the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland?

13  When was the last wild California Condor taken into captivity to join a captive-breeding programme? Was it 1987, 1989 or 1991?

14  In which country was the only certain specimen of the Red Sea Swallow found (in 1984)?

15  What bird was Gilbert White referring to when he wrote about a Jar Bird?

16  What is the journal of Neotropical Bird Club?

17  What is the BirdLife partner in Turkey?

18  To discuss which Critically Endangered species did the Prime Ministers of Japan and China (Shinzo Abe and Wen Jiabao) meet in February 2007?

19  Which English king, born over a thousand years ago, has a wader named after him?

20  What method does the Hooded Pitohui in New Guinea use to deter feather-lice and predators?

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1  Where would you go to see Troglodytes troglodytes hebridensis?

2  Which former British Foreign Secretary has an ornithological institute named after him?

3  What catastrophic event is believed to have caused a steep decline in the population of Nicobar Megapodes on the Nicobar Islands in the last ten years?