1. What is name of the vent that serves as the opening for both the reproductive and digestive system in birds?
2. Which bird lands on Mary Poppins’ finger as she sings A Spoonful of Sugar?
3. What bird is associated with delivering babies?
4. Which bird has a wattle, a beard, and a snood?
5. Which family of birds is known as the butcher birds?
6. Which bird is associated with Cockneys?
7. What is the scientific name of the ostrich?
8. Which English football team has the nickname The Owls?
9. A mythical bird that resembles a cormorant is a symbol of what city in England?
10. In what year did the passenger pigeon become extinct?
11. Which flightless bird has been known to kill humans?
12. What species is Wisdom, thought to be the oldest bird in the world?
13. How many vertebrae are there in the neck of the mute swan?
14. What is the highest flying bird in the world?
15. Which is the only species of penguin to live north of the equator?
16. Which bird’s young is called a colt?
17. The terms wake, kettle, and committee all refer to a group of what type of bird?
18. What bird became a symbol Catholicism due to a belief that it revived its young with blood drawn from its own breast?
19. Which is the heaviest species of penguin?
20. Which bird lays the largest eggs relative to its size?
21. What are the droppings of seabirds called that are used for fertiliser?
22. What is the official bird of Madison City Council in Wisconsin?
23. What is the national bird of India?
24. Where on a bird would you find its rectrices?
25. Which bird’s young is called a colt?
26. What bird appears on the Australian 10 cent coin?
27. What pigment is primarily responsible for the pink colouring in flamingos?
28. What is the full name of the author of The Birds Of America?
29. What major avian clade includes all living birds except for the ratites and tinamous?
30. Which extinct bird from New Zealand was over 3.5 metres tall and weighed up to 230 kg?
31. Which transitional fossil shows both avian and dinosaurian features, including feathers and teeth?
32. What is the name of the only flightless parrot?
33. Emus’ eggs are a shade of which colour?
34. Which birds are kept at the Tower of London?
35. Which mythical bird regenerates from ashes and symbolises rebirth?
36. What is a swirling flock of starlings called?
37. What is the names of the Norse god Odin’s raven that begins with M?
38. A traditional Irish custom celebrated on Boxing Day involves hunting what bird on a pole?
39. What is the smallest bird in the world?
40. On which archipelago was the last great auk seen?
41. What bird is commonly seen on British Christmas cards?
42. Which bird sings “a little bit of bread and no cheese”?
43. What bird was used by ancient Egyptians for the hieroglyphic for “red”?
44. What is the dodo’s closest living relative?
45. What bird has the scientific name Pica pica?
46. What is the more common name for the furcula?
47. What is the state bird of Texas?
48. What is the name of the muscle used for grinding a bird’s food?
49. What species of owl is Hedwig, Harry Potter’s owl?
50. What does a hoatzin chick have a on its wings that is not seen in adult birds?
