• 1. 
    Which flightless bird stood one metre tall, lived on the island of Mauritius, and became extinct in the 17th century?

  • Arabian ostrich
  • great auk
  • dodo
  • Bachman's warbler
  • 2. 
    Which bird shares its name with a plant and can crack coconuts with its strong beak?

  • hyacinth macaw
  • greater sage-grouse
  • mangrove cuckoo
  • oak titmouse
  • 3. 
    Feathers, human hair, and human nails are all made of which protein?

  • keratin
  • elastin
  • fibroin
  • collagen
  • 4. 
    Which bird nests in dense colonies on cliffs and dives into the sea in order to catch fish and squid?

  • booby
  • great cormorant
  • gannet
  • black guillemot
  • 5. 
    Which makes the longest annual migration of any bird?

  • short-tailed shearwater
  • great snipe
  • Arctic tern
  • bar-tailed godwit
  • 6. 
    Which bird became extinct around 1898 when its mountain-forest habitat was destroyed by colonization?

  • Laysan rail
  • Tasmanian emu
  • quetzal
  • mamo
  • 7. 
    Wile E. Coyote pursued a member of which bird species in the Looney Tunes cartoon series?

  • yellow canary
  • acorn woodpecker
  • American black duck
  • roadrunner
  • 8. 
    Which is a large carrion-eating bird that lives predominantly in the tropics and subtropics?

  • raven
  • quoll
  • vulture
  • crow
  • 9. 
    The young of which bird are excellent swimmers that plunge into water if threatened and use their claws to climb back to their nest?

  • tanager
  • hoatzin
  • cotinga
  • heron
  • 10. 
    Which long-legged bird is the only living bird of prey of terrestrial habits, meaning that it hunts its prey on foot?

  • secretary bird
  • gabar goshawk
  • martial eagle
  • bateleur
  • 11. 
    Which bird has white feathers in the winter to blend in with snow but has gray or brown feathers in summer to blend in with vegetation?

  • killdeer
  • white-breasted thrasher
  • lesser yellowlegs
  • ptarmigan
  • 12. 
    Which diving bird sports a large brightly coloured triangular beak and nests on rocky seaside cliffs of the North Pacific?

  • Arctic loon
  • horned puffin
  • fork-tailed storm petrel
  • cormorant
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