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1  How many Critically Endangered species are there?

2  Which species was recorded from the most 10 km squares in the original 1968–72 Atlas survey?

3  What measurement of Peregrine eggs established incontrovertibly the association between organochlorine pesticides and their population crash in the late 1950s and early 1960s?

4  What was the Birdfair project in 2005?

5  What was the name of the Puddle-duck in Beatrix Potter’s famous children’s book?

6  How many White-tailed Eagle chicks have successfully fledged in Scotland since their reintroduction to Rum in 1975? Is it 50, 100 or 200?

7  What was the subtitle of the magazine British Birds for the first 40 years of its existence?

8  Which of the following birds does not exist – Ursula’s Sunbird, Johanna’s Sunbird, Mrs Moreau’s Sunbird, Mrs Gould’s Sunbird?

9  Which of the following is the most important threat to the Bali Starling – hotel development, wind farms or the cage bird trade?

10  What sort of bird is a Bokikokiko?

11  Who was the President of the RSPB from 1985 to 1990 who died in January 2007, and was also a TV quizmaster of a quiz of which Bird Brain of Britain is a straight crib, if less well organized?

12  What bird is known as ‘brain-fever bird’.

13  What is a bergander (or bargander)?

14  In which country is the world’s largest harrier roost?

15  From which of the following diseases have birds been known to suffer – gout, malaria, tuberculosis and influenza?

16  Which of the following are the subjects of reintroduction schemes in the British Isles: White-tailed Eagle, Golden Eagle, Red Kite, Great Auk and Corncrake?

17  What links 1) nesting Great-winged Petrels and Flesh-footed Shearwaters in Western Australia and 2) nesting Grey Petrels and White-chinned Petrels on Antipodes Island?

18  What is the main cause of death among Blue Cranes in South Africa?

19  The future of which European species is threatened by hybridisation with its non-migratory Japanese cousin?

20  What is the greatest known age attained by a Starling from BTO ringing results?