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1  What colour are the legs of a breeding Rose-coloured Starling?

2  What bird is on the back of a £10 note with Charles Darwin?

3  Little Auk chicks are usually fed by only one parent at the end of chick-rearing. Which parent?

4  The local extinction of which species in Alderford Common in Norfolk was blamed entirely on one egg-collector, Daniel Lingham, who was prosecuted in March 2005?

5  And what was his sentence?

6  Are there more birds on the British List described as Northern, European or Eurasian?

7  When was the first BTO ‘Inquiry into the Status of the Corncrake or Landrail’?

8  If you saw a Canard colvert in France, what would you be watching?

9  Who first described the Moustached Warbler, has a gull named after him and had an Uncle Napoleon?

10  When was Gurney’s Pitta first described?

11  A pair of which species constructed their nest in Doha, Saudi Arabia, in 1985 of, among other things, a plastic sandal, two pieces of lorry tyre, two left-hand gloves, a pair of gentleman’s underpants (size 32-inch waist) and a complete goatskin?

12  Which of the following does not exist – Sad Flycatcher, Melancholy Woodpecker, Sobbing Pigeon or Lacrimose Mountain-tanager?

13  What is the collective noun for a flock of Great Bustards?

14  What does ‘Operation Artemis’ seek to protect in the UK?

15  What is unusual about the only mainland breeding site of Jackass Penguin (in Namibia)?

16  In 2001 far more Grey Phalaropes were recorded in Britain than in any previous year. How many?

17  And what was the previous highest score?

18  Most motmots have racquet-like tips of the central rectrices, although they are initially fully barbed along the whole shaft. How does this come about?

19  There are two species of Folige-gleaner restricted to the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru, both of which are considered to be Vulnerable. Name one.

20  How many licensed ringers were there in England and Wales in 1958?