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1  Who wrote Swifts in a Tower?

2  What raptor, not known for nesting in trees in Britain, successfully raised a brood of three in a wire hanging-basket in a tree in Shropshire in 2005?

3  Amorous behaviour with what species led observers to believe that the Black-winged Stilt, that stayed at Titchwell for 11 years was a male (Sammy)?

4  The eggs of which species were collected at Cape Crozier in the Antarctic in 1911 by Dr Edward Wilson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Birdie Bowers?

5  Who has a gull and a tern named after him?

6  Are there more species of Anser, Anas or Aythya on the British List?

7  What is a cricket-teal in East Anglia?

8  Who wrote: ‘The Dodo used to walk around, And take the sun and air. The sun yet warms his native ground – The Dodo is not there.’

9  In which Red List category is the Ultramarine Lorikeet of French Polynesia?

10  How have German ornithologists been using the bug Dipetalogaster maximus for ornithological research?

11  Which of the following birds do not exist: Red Bishop, Pope’s Lovebird, Abbott’s Booby, Chaplin’s Barbet?

12  What is a popinjay?

13  The Imperial Pheasant is now known to be a hybrid of which two species?

14  How many pairs of Bald Ibises were found to be breeding in Syria in 2003?

15  What is the chief threat to the Amani Nature Reserve in Tanzania, after which the Amani Sunbird is named?

16  What was the name of the extinct large flightless pigeon that lived on Rodriguez Island in the Mascerenes until the 18th century?

17  How many of the 572 birds on the British List are identified by a single noun without any descriptive adjective (10% either way)?

18  In 2002 the total of occupied Peregrine territories in the UK was 1,092, 1,292 or 1,492?

19  The 31p 1998 commemorative British stamp, featuring Endangered British species, depicted which bird?

20  Which volume number is the 2004 British Birds?