General Knowledge Bird Quiz

1) On the Bitish Robin, is the red breast only on the breast, extends up to the throat, extends up to just over the bill or extends over the bill and over the top of the eyes?

a) The Breast
b) Up to the throat
c) Just over the bill
d) Over the top of the bill and eyes

2) What British bird has the longest period between birth and first breeding?

a) White-tailed Sea Eagle
b) Fulmar
c) Golden Eagle
d) Great Black-backed Gull

3) On average, how many feathers does a Mute Swan have?

a) 5,100
b) 15,400
c) 25,200
d) 35,500

4) The collective name for a group of Ravens would be?

a) An unkindness
b) A murder
c) A covey
d) A team

5) I have seen an advertisement offering Barn Owls for sale. Is this legal?

a) No
b) Yes
c) Yes as long as they have been bred in capitivity and are fitted with 'close' rings
d) Yes as long as they are rescued birds

6) Highest Flying Bird.....A Ruppell's vulture collided with a commercial aircraft over the Ivory Coast at an altitude of what?

a) 37,000ft
b) 10,000ft
c) 45,000ft
d) 4,500ft

7) During migration the Arctic Tern carries out the longest flight of any bird each year, how far does it fly in a year?

a) 5,000 miles
b) 10,000 miles
c) 15,000 miles
d) 25,000 miles

8) The UK's smallest songbird is a?

a) Goldfinch
b) Firecrest
c) Wren
d) Goldcrest

9) With an estimated 44 - 61,000 pairs, the commonest UK bird of prey is a?

a) Kestrel
b) Common Buzzard
c) Sparrowhawk
d) Merlin

10) What is the largest European wading bird?

a) Bar-tailed Godwit
b) Curlew
c) Black-tailed Godwit
d) Grey Heron

11) This bird is very unusual in that the adult female is brighter than the male, what is it?

a) Dotterel
b) Grey Plover
c) Cirl Bunting
d) Dartford Warbler

12) What is our heaviest and fastest flying duck?

a) Shelduck
b) Common Eider
c) Mallard
d) Gadwall

13) At 4.2% of its body weight, its brain is proportionately the largest in the bird kingdom, what is it?

a) Golden eagle
b) Hummingbird
c) Magpie
d) Jackdaw

14) Your German friend has just told you he has seen a Fischmöwe, what has he seen?

a) A Kingfisher
b) A Black-headed Gull
c) A Grey Heron
d) A Cormorant