How well do you know birds?

6. Now I thought that the shortest migration was by a gamebird, and probably a grouse, but as far as I know, Franklin, Atwater and Robert (Bob) White are not famous explorers!

 

7. And my final comment; I think that the likely winner has 31 letters!

 

1. Emperor Penguin

8. Kea?

10. Rock Dove?

Yet again, I have no idea on the other questions

 

7. The longest I thought of without help was King of Saxony Bird of Paradise.

 

5/10.

0/10.

 

My score is just pathetic

 

Anyone else with answers? If not, happy to try the ones I have researched before hearing the official answers.

 

So my current answers are
1 Snow Petrel
2 Pallas’ Sandgrouse
3 Bumblebee Hummingbird
4 Worthen’s Sparrow
5 Tufted Duck
6 Clark’s Nutcracker
7 Southern Blue eared Glossy Starling
8 Ou
9 Least Bittern
10 House Sparrow

 

I am happy to declare Tetzoo Quizzer the answer with a 5/10 score before and this time a perfect one!

 

I’ll post another set tomorrow morning.

 

Okay, a themed round; birds new to Science, 1960 to 2016.
1. In this period, 99 new species (of a total of 288) came from two countries; name either.
2. At least 14 species came from the genus Scytalopus; what type of bird are they?
3. What morphological feature links a Brazilian Parrot named one 2002 with a Laotian Bulbul from 2009?
4. Which Asian species was named in 1968, was only seen at one location, and vanished in 1986?
5. Which species was written about in 1960, but not described until 1983, as they waited for a natural death to supply a type specimen?
6. Who is BirdLife’s species champion for the Araripe Manakin?
7. I first saw a particular species with an Israeli ornithologist back in the 1980’s; in 2015 the species was named after him! What species?
8. Which is the only US mainland species to be Described (not scientifically split) since 1900?
9. Which flightless bird, known locally, was not described until 1981?
10. Which currently recognised species is only known from a single body part?

 

This question was not inspired by a certain event related to your name, was it?

 

Nope! It is simply a (relatively) well known , distinctive but mysterious species.

 

1. Brazil

3. Baldness

4. White-eyed River Martin

9. Okinawa Rail

10. It is an African nightjar that is only known from one wing; I can't remember its name.

 

4.5/10

 

2.Tapaculos
3.Bareness on the head
4.White-eyed River Martin
7.Hume’s Owl
8.Okinawa Rail

 

5/10

 

Anyone else? If not, I’ll give the answers next year!

 

1. 50 from Brazil, 49 from Peru
2. Tapaculos
3. Bare skin on the head
4. White-eyed River Martin
5. Amsterdam Albatross
6. Sir David Attenborough
7. Desert Owl (Hume’s Owl refers to the Omani species)
8. Gunnison Sage Grouse (this population had never been scientifically described, so it was not a split of previously recognised subspecies)
9. Okinawa Rail
10. Nechisar Nightjar
Noah, feel free to set questions if you wish.

 

No reply from Noah so far. Cassidy, do you want to set some questions?