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1  What colour is the tail of the Azure-winged Magpie?

2  When were Gannets first recorded breeding on Sule Skerry in the Orkneys?

3  Which Western Palaearctic raptor was made ‘Person of the week’ on the ABC TV World News Tonight programme, after visiting Martha’s Vineyard?

4  What was the last new species seen by the late Phoebe Snetsinger in Madagascar before her death?

5  What feature of some Feral Pigeons appears to reduce their chances of being caught by a stooping Peregrine when compared with those without this feature?

6  If you saw an Alouette lulu in France, what would you be watching?

7  What unique group defence mechanism do Fieldfares Turdus pilaris use on potential predators?

8  What is the largest bird family on the Sibley/Monroe classification?

9  What development on Dunmaglass Estate in the Highlands is predicted to decimate the Golden Eagle population in the region?

10  What was the Scottish population of Golden Eagles in 2003?

11  Who first described Gurney’s Pitta?

12  Where in the British Isles has the Red-winged Laughingthrush (Garrulax formosus) regularly bred since 1996, having escaped from captivity?

13  Name three of the eight key species targeted in the Scarce Woodland Bird Survey conducted by the BTO in 2005 and 2006?

14  Which of the following does not exist – Mountain White-eye, Mountain Black-eye, Barrow’s Goldeneye or Barrow’s Silver-eye?

15  What bird, according to BWP ‘may attempt to force prey off mountain ledges including sheep, chamois, steinbok and even man’?

16  In the hard winter of 1962/63, what was the highest recorded number of wrens observed entering a single nest-box in Britain?

17  Which species of goose could Roman Catholics eat on Fridays in the belief that it was a fish?

18  The BBC reported the rediscovery of which species on 28th April 2005 (unfortunately getting its name wrong)?

19  Where was the only area in England in which Hen Harriers bred successfully in 2004?

20  What was the 2003 population of the Galapagos Penguin reckoned to be?