How well do you know birds?

1. Amur Falcon
2. Mockingbird
3. Malleefowl
4. Secretary bird
5. Long-billed Curlew
6. American Woodcock
7. Washington’s Eagle
8. Ptarmigan
9. Stressmann’s Bristlefront.
10. Stephen Island Wren

 

5/10.

 

edited
1 hooded crane after that one that was schoot in alaksa this year if your wondering why this is my guss i lisen to the amerikan birding podcast whare they spoke about this
2 dont now
3 kakapo?
4?
5 is this longest comparid to body sise if so i now othervise i dont

6 domestic chicken?
7 dont now then
8 White-tailed ptarmigan?
9 my second guss then is the bahamin nuthach. ??
10 is stepen island wren then i misred the part wich was that i had bean sean alive

 

3/10.

 

The only ones I know:

3 emperor penguin
4 secretarybird
5 of course a pelican but which one? all have similar lenght bills. Let's say Eastern White.

9 Pseudochelidon sirintirae?
10 Xenicus lyalli

 

Change my answer to 3 to Wandering Albatross, and 5 to Australian Pelican

 

2. Northern cardinal
3. Wandering albatross
4. Secretary bird
5. Australian pelican
9. Madagascar pochard

 

So, revised set of answers
1. Amur Falcon
2. Western Meadowlark
3. Wandering Albatross
4. Secretary bird
5. Australian Pelican
6. American Woodcock
7. Washington’s Eagle
8. Ptarmigan
9. Stressemann’s Bristlefront
10. Stephens Island Wren

 

2/10.

2/10.

7/10.

 

I assume 1 and 6 are wrong as these are pure guesses; which is the other error please?

 

You are correct that those two are wrong, the other error is 3.

 

Change 1 to Steller’s Sea Eagle and 3 to Emperor Penguin.

 

Neither of those are correct, either.

 

3. Kiwi

 

I'll let you have it @Tetzoo Quizzer. Here are the answers:

1. This Asian bird was first recorded in North America in 2010, but the record was not accepted until 11 years later. Hooded Crane
2. This bird is rather surprisingly the state bird of 6 states. Not bad for a bird most people wouldn't be able to name! Western Meadowlark
3. The bird with the longest incubation period. Royal Albatross
4. This iconic bird gets its name from the resemblance of the feathers on its head to writing quills. Secretarybird
5. This bird has the longest bill. Australian Pelican
6. This is the only non-waterfowl bird to ever appear on a Federal Duck Stamp. Ivory-billed Woodpecker (for some reason...)
7. The fictional (and passed for real) bird made up and painted by Audubon in an attempt to sell more copies of his book. Bird of Washington (Washington's Eagle)
8. The town of Chicken, Alaska was named that way because none of the locals could spell the name of this native bird. Ptarmigan
9. The rarest bird in the world - at the moment. Stresemann's Bristlefront
10. The only flightless passerine species known from life, now extinct. Lyall's Wren (Stephens Island Wren)

 

Two small islands, one off Greenland and one in the Russian Far East are the only two sites known to have hosted all the world’s species of which birds?

 

puffins?

 

Absolutely. Your turn for a question.

 

I'm assuming this only includes the three true puffins and not the Rhinoceros Auklet? Interesting either way, I didn't know the Atlantic Puffin had occurred in the Pacific/Bering Sea.

 

Not sure if the auklet has been on the Russian Island, but Atlantic Puffin has been recorded there as a vagrant; see the Vagrancy book referenced above (I’ll post the island names and further details once I am back home late this evening).