Quiz on Birds 2 - Environment and Wildlife Quiz 99

Quiz on Birds 2 - Environment and Wildlife Quiz 99

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1. "Halcyon" is a name for a bird in Greek legend. The Halcyon is a genus of which one of the following birds?

Eagle
House sparrow
Kingfisher
Peacock

2. For nearly 113 years, this species was considered to be extinct, until researchers rediscovered it in 1997 in Toranmal Reserve Forest near Shahada in the Satpura ranges in Nandurbar District, Maharashtra. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has named this bird as the one facing a high risk of extinction. Which one of the following are we talking about?

Spoon Billed Sandpiper
Forest Owlet
Siberian Crane
Red Headed Vulture

3. Name the state bird of Gujarat

Greater flamingo
Wester tragopan
House sparrow
Great hornbill

4. Struthio camelus is the scientific name of a bird. Do you know this bird?

Ostrich
Crane
Cuckoo
Emu

5. A well-traveled seabird, it has the longest-distance migration of any bird. Its incredible yearly journey takes it all the way from its Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctica and back again. Name the bird

Black guillemot
Arctic tern
Albatross
Sooty shearwater

6. To stay up, the birds must overcome gravity with a force made by moving the wing at speed through air. What is this force called?

Drag
Lift
Curl
Roll

7. Which bird has the largest known wingspan of any living bird?

Ostrich
Swan
Andean condor
Albatross

8. Which one of the following dinosaurs had a pelvic structure similar to that of birds?

Neosauropoda
Ornithischia
Tetanurae
Dilophosauridae

9. Can you pick the odd one out from the following birds?

Penguin
Rhea
Kiwi
Kingfisher

10. Bird's nest soup, a delicacy in Chinese cuisine, is made from the nest of a bird. What do these birds use to make their nests?

Saliva
Food waste
Plants
Seeds

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