Quiz on Birds 6 - Environment and Wildlife Quiz 103

Quiz on Birds 6 - Environment and Wildlife Quiz 103

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1. Birds travel to another part of the world for warmer weather at a particular time of the year. What is the term used for this behaviour?

Migration
Homing
Moult
Warble

2. Its primary objective is the conservation and management of diversity among plants, animals and birds. It also provides opportunities for the protection of indigenous knowledge practices and innovations related to the natural environment. This is known as the

Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal Protocol
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol

3. Nongin (Mrs. Hume's pheasant) is the state bird of which one of the following states
A. Manipur
B. Mizoram
C. Madhya Pradesh
D. Meghalaya

A and B
A and C
Only A
Only B

4. The egg of which bird is used by the Bushmen of North Kalahari desert to collect water?

Penguin
Eagle
Emu
Ostrich

5. The official Red List authority for birds for the International Union for Conservation os Nature (IUCN) is

Birdlife International
British Trust for Ornithology
American Birding Association
Wild Bird Society of Japan

6. What is a 'flying fox'?

Fox that can fly
Fruit bats
A type of bird
Prehistoric fox

7. Which continent is known as the bird's continent?

Asia
Africa
Australia
North America

8. Who is known as the bird man of India?

Humayun Abdulali
Biswamoy Biswas
Salim Ali
Bikram Grewal

9. Which one of the following bird species have short bodies and large coloured bills that may measure more than half the length of the body?

Toucan
Ibis
Heron
Puffin

10. Where is the Central Avian Research Institute of India (CARI) located?

Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Izzatnagar, Uttar Pradesh
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Imphal, Manipur

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