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1  What surprising mammalian threat are Tristan Albatross chicks facing on Gough Island?

2  By what name was Cecropis daurica previously known?

3  What is the only bird to be included in the witches’ broth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

4  Which European country has the largest breeding population of Rock Pipits?

5  Daisy, who died on 30th October 2002, reared 24 ducklings in 12 years in her capacity as the sole breeding female of wild origin of which species?

6  Are there more species of Charadrius, Calidris or Tringa on the British List?

7  Since 2000 what has threatened the Fatuhiva Monarch?

8  What fate befell a House Sparrow that knocked over 23,000 dominoes at a Dutch televised World record domino stacking event in Leeuwarden (4 million dominoes being the target)?

9  With what bird is Saint Dominic usually associated?

10  Sergei Buturlin was the first ornithologist to discover the nest of which species at its main breeding grounds near the Kolyma River in Russia in 1905 (although a nest had been found in Greenland in 1885)?

11  Which of the following birds do not exist: Tinkerbirds, Tailorbirds, Soldierbirds and Pilotbirds?

12  What does ‘squacco’ mean?

13  Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwing/Plover chicks are being predated by which species which has spread due to the planting of shelter belts in Kazakhstan?

14  After what are Magenta Petrel and Herald Petrel named?

15  The Sulphur-breasted Parakeet Aratinga pintoi has only recently been described as a separate species because it was previously thought to be the immature of which species?

16  How many of the following have had wild populations of fewer than ten individuals: Californian Condor, Mauritius Kestrel, Whooping Crane and Chatham Island Black Robin?

17  The Quarrion or Weero is a common Australian bird. By what name is it more usually known?

18  What kind of farming slaughtered 70 Red Kites, 6 Black Kites, 45 Common Buzzards, 15 White-tailed Eagles and 376 bats among other luckless flying creatures in Brandenburg State in Germany up until August 2005?

19  How many of the 572 birds on the British List are described by eponyms (named after people)?

20  Which of the following gulls’ plumage is frequently suffused with pink: Slender-billed, Brown-hooded, Andean and Ross’s Gull?