BIRDS QUESTIONS
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Play the Birds Quiz with your friends and give yourself a great advantage by selecting your starting question from different Birds Questions!
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Hans Christian Andersen's biology was a bit off. Since he wrote about a ugly bird who becomes a swan, what should he have called his story?
The feathery remains of Martha are preserved at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, while a statue of her stands in the Cincinnati Zoo, where she died. What was she?
On the Shetland Islands, they take this fatty bird, stick its feet in clay, put a wick in its mouth, and use it as a candle. What is it?
The last passenger pigeon and the last captive Carolina parakeet both died in what city's zoo?
Strictly speaking, what does it mean when birds are full-fledged?
Which of birds can in fact fly?
Best known by a name given to it by Paul Mohring in 1752, what bird is also known as the nandu and the South American ostrich?
Traditionally, what birds return to San Juan Capistrano, California, on October 23?
What flightless South American bird did Paul Mohring apparently name for Zeus's mom?
Which of these is NOT a way to tell ravens from crows?
Believed to have been extinct since 1944, the ivory-billed species of what bird was spotted in Arkansas in 2005?
An ad writer and Hollywood agent, who wrote the novels "Prizzi's Honor" and "The Manchurian Candidate"?
What long-gone bird often completes the phrase "Dead as a"?
French explorer Dumont d'Urville named a species of what bird for his wife Adelie?
The kakapo is the world's only flightless parrot, and the nocturnal bird's name means "night parrot" in what language?
What birds of the Phoenicopterus genus thrive because they prefer to live in alkaline or saline bodies of water that humans can't drink and can't use for irrigation?
Shrimp and algae are full of carotene, and the more of it this bird eats, the pinker its feathers are. And it eats with his head upside down. What is it?
What is it about the feet of birds of prey that make them insessorial?
Found in huge numbers on Lake Windsor on Great Inagua, what is the national bird of the Bahamas?
A tercel comes from the Latin for "third," either because it was said every third egg was male, or because the males are one-third smaller than the females. What bird is a tercel?
The feathery remains of Martha are preserved at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, while a statue of her stands in the Cincinnati Zoo, where she died. What was she?
On the Shetland Islands, they take this fatty bird, stick its feet in clay, put a wick in its mouth, and use it as a candle. What is it?
The last passenger pigeon and the last captive Carolina parakeet both died in what city's zoo?
Strictly speaking, what does it mean when birds are full-fledged?
Which of birds can in fact fly?
Best known by a name given to it by Paul Mohring in 1752, what bird is also known as the nandu and the South American ostrich?
Traditionally, what birds return to San Juan Capistrano, California, on October 23?
What flightless South American bird did Paul Mohring apparently name for Zeus's mom?
Which of these is NOT a way to tell ravens from crows?
Believed to have been extinct since 1944, the ivory-billed species of what bird was spotted in Arkansas in 2005?
An ad writer and Hollywood agent, who wrote the novels "Prizzi's Honor" and "The Manchurian Candidate"?
What long-gone bird often completes the phrase "Dead as a"?
French explorer Dumont d'Urville named a species of what bird for his wife Adelie?
The kakapo is the world's only flightless parrot, and the nocturnal bird's name means "night parrot" in what language?
What birds of the Phoenicopterus genus thrive because they prefer to live in alkaline or saline bodies of water that humans can't drink and can't use for irrigation?
Shrimp and algae are full of carotene, and the more of it this bird eats, the pinker its feathers are. And it eats with his head upside down. What is it?
What is it about the feet of birds of prey that make them insessorial?
Found in huge numbers on Lake Windsor on Great Inagua, what is the national bird of the Bahamas?
A tercel comes from the Latin for "third," either because it was said every third egg was male, or because the males are one-third smaller than the females. What bird is a tercel?