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