Birds Trivia Quiz. Can you get at least 5 correct ?

Birds Trivia Quiz. Can you get at least 5 correct ?

Question 1 of 10

Its Latin name, Sagittarius serpentarius, suggests that it's an archer that aims at snakes, rather than a file clerk of some kind. What is it?

Question 2 of 10

If you're described as being akin to one of the nightjar family in the New World subfamily Chordeilinae, how have you been described?

Question 3 of 10

The Book of St Albans created many exotic terms for bird collectives. Which of these was actually Mike Score's Liverpool synth-pop band?

Question 4 of 10

David Steadman named a Polynesian parrot called the conquered lorikeet as a pun on something Julius Caesar said. What?

Question 5 of 10

The turkey vulture indulges in a practice called urohydrosis. What is this?

Question 6 of 10

On March 19, the swallows arrive in San Juan Capistrano, California, but leave again on October 23. Where do they go?

Question 7 of 10

Hunters will send newbies looking for a fake bird. But the joke is on them. It's a real wading bird of the Scolopacidae family. What is it?

Question 8 of 10

This may have been on the menu instead of turkey for the first Thanksgiving, and the last surviving one, Booming Ben, was such a tourist attraction in the 1930s that it was nearly run over by a car. What was it?

Question 9 of 10

Making up the family Podicipedidae, what bird eats its own feathers?

Question 10 of 10

Despite being far inland, Salt Lake City erected a monument to the Franklin's variety of what bird, which saved Utah by eating grasshoppers?

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