How well do you know birds?

I think this thread could do with a revival.

I'll get it started with a question, the first person with the correct answer will get the next turn and so on.

As per the original post, "This quiz is to see what you know and is just for fun, so please refrain from searching up the answers".


Q) Gerald Durrell's pet named "Alecko" was which species of bird?

 

This is correct.

According to Gerald in My Family And Other Animals he was given the gull by a convict on day-leave from the prison. In reality (according to various biographers) it was actually his brother Leslie who met the convict and Gerald appropriated the story for himself. Similarly, Lawrence also apparently took events which happened to Leslie and rewrote them featuring himself instead.


@FBBird can provide the next bird question.

 

Seeing there has been no question provided after three days, I'll try again with a new bird question. Whoever gets it correct first asks the next question.

Q) The Gentoo Penguin was given its scientific name after which island?

 

New Guinea

 

That is correct - named after a mistaken claim that the species was from that island (I can't remember the exact story off-hand).

The next question belongs to you.

 

What is the noteworthy link between the Australian King Parrot and Zoo Berlin?

 

Usually I think zoo connections are that a species was first discovered by science in one. I don't think that is the case here, but that will be the basis of my answer [guess] anyway.

Is it that the sexual dimorphism of the species was first recorded in specimens kept at Zoo Berlin?

 

I like your thinking, but not to the best of my knowledge!