Here's my offering, just as I was starting to post this I remembered that in each of Bill's quizzes the answers all began with the same letter of the alphabet, that isn't the case here.
Hope you like it.
Pm the answers and I'll post winners next Sunday at this time. Also please tell me if any of the questions are too difficult and I'll try and ease up on the next one.
Ex Beebs Quiz No 1
1. Which English bird used to be known as a water ouzel?
2. In 1953 this bird first reached Britain, 3 years later it bred for the first time, what species is it?
3. Called Wildlife Explorers now but when it formed in 1943 what was the original name for the junior section of the RSPB?
4. Lots of birds have a scientific name that is the same word for both first and second part, can you work out the common name of the bird whose scientific name when translated from the Latin is cave-dweller cave-dweller?
5. Remiges is the posh word for which feathers?
6. Full name and dates for the person that the Canary Island pipit (it's alternative name) is named for . Half point for name only
7. Harry Potter's postal delivery bird is called Hedwig but what species is it supposed to be?
8. One of the newest RSPB reserve's in the UK is at Swillington near Leeds, what is it called and what was it before it became a reserve?
9. He wrote a Little Black Bird Book, Follow That Bird! and Gripping Yarns - who is it?
10. Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d''Urville named a bird for his wife, what species was it?
11. On which RSPB Reserve do you stand the best chance of hearing Golden Oriole? Having been there I know you've little chance of seeing them.
12. A 1965 film set in the Sahara Desert featured a group men who survived a plane crash and rebuilt their plane to fly to safety. The title of the film features the name of a bird, what is that bird?
13. There are 4 species of woodpecker seen with regularity in the UK, Great Spotted, Lesser Spotted and Green - what is the fourth species which is usually seen mainly during migration periods as it doesn't breed in the UK anymore?
14. Common goosander, Red-breasted merganser and Smew are collectively known as what? The name relates to a certain body feature unique to these birds.
15. Affectionately known as Sammy, this bird took up residence at Titchwell and stayed for 14 years. For a good part of that time it was the only one of its kind in the UK. Can you name the species?
16. The scientific study of eggs is known as what?
17. The Pudsey Duck flies backwards to keep the smoke from out of its eyes (local joke), there is however a group of birds who have mastered this sort of manoeuvrability, can you name them?
18. LBJ is birder's slang for what?
19. Going from one of the most abundant birds in the world to completely extinct in less than 100 years. One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds. The last bird dying in Cincinatti Zoo in 1914. What species am I talking about?
[FONT="]20. [/FONT]Turducken is a culinary term -what does it refer to?
Hope you like it.
Pm the answers and I'll post winners next Sunday at this time. Also please tell me if any of the questions are too difficult and I'll try and ease up on the next one.
Ex Beebs Quiz No 1
1. Which English bird used to be known as a water ouzel?
2. In 1953 this bird first reached Britain, 3 years later it bred for the first time, what species is it?
3. Called Wildlife Explorers now but when it formed in 1943 what was the original name for the junior section of the RSPB?
4. Lots of birds have a scientific name that is the same word for both first and second part, can you work out the common name of the bird whose scientific name when translated from the Latin is cave-dweller cave-dweller?
5. Remiges is the posh word for which feathers?
6. Full name and dates for the person that the Canary Island pipit (it's alternative name) is named for . Half point for name only
7. Harry Potter's postal delivery bird is called Hedwig but what species is it supposed to be?
8. One of the newest RSPB reserve's in the UK is at Swillington near Leeds, what is it called and what was it before it became a reserve?
9. He wrote a Little Black Bird Book, Follow That Bird! and Gripping Yarns - who is it?
10. Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d''Urville named a bird for his wife, what species was it?
11. On which RSPB Reserve do you stand the best chance of hearing Golden Oriole? Having been there I know you've little chance of seeing them.
12. A 1965 film set in the Sahara Desert featured a group men who survived a plane crash and rebuilt their plane to fly to safety. The title of the film features the name of a bird, what is that bird?
13. There are 4 species of woodpecker seen with regularity in the UK, Great Spotted, Lesser Spotted and Green - what is the fourth species which is usually seen mainly during migration periods as it doesn't breed in the UK anymore?
14. Common goosander, Red-breasted merganser and Smew are collectively known as what? The name relates to a certain body feature unique to these birds.
15. Affectionately known as Sammy, this bird took up residence at Titchwell and stayed for 14 years. For a good part of that time it was the only one of its kind in the UK. Can you name the species?
16. The scientific study of eggs is known as what?
17. The Pudsey Duck flies backwards to keep the smoke from out of its eyes (local joke), there is however a group of birds who have mastered this sort of manoeuvrability, can you name them?
18. LBJ is birder's slang for what?
19. Going from one of the most abundant birds in the world to completely extinct in less than 100 years. One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds. The last bird dying in Cincinatti Zoo in 1914. What species am I talking about?
[FONT="]20. [/FONT]Turducken is a culinary term -what does it refer to?
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