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1  What is a Sprosser?

2  Which species bred in London for the first time in 1926 on the derelict site of the Wembley Exhibition?

3  Which book won the BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2006 award?

4  In which country does the adult Syrian population of Bald Ibises winter (as was recently discovered by satellite tracking)?

5  The average male of which rare British breeding bird can mimic at least 76 other bird species – half of them African?

6  What was the Birdfair project in 2002?

7  Where would you hope to find the Obscure Berrypicker?

8  What disease resulted in a permanent ban on the import of wild birds into the EU in January 2007?

9  What Critically Endangered species was rediscovered after 100 years by a shepherd looking for a lost goat in Peru in 1977?

10  Which of the following birds does not exist – Boubou, Brubru, Bobo, Boobook?

11  Which of the following is the most important threat to the Lear’s Macaw – hotel development, wind farms or the cage bird trade?

12  Which European warbler spends 23.7 minutes per copulation on average?

13  How old was a Lesser Flamingo found dead at Lake Bogoria in Kenya in July 2003 that had been ringed by Leslie Brown and Alan Root as a chick?

14  Roughly how many eggs, to the nearest 5,000, of the Horseshoe Crab does a Knot require per day to sustain it at its fuelling stop in Delaware Bay on its spring migration?

15  A group of Belgians is campaigning to allow the trapping of which songbird because wild birds sing better in cages than captive-bred birds?

16  In 2004, what species of raptor electrocuted itself on power lines at Santa Clarita, Los Angeles, and fell burning to the ground, starting a fire which burnt 2,300 ha, necessitating the evacuation of 1,600 homes?

17  By what name was Poecile palustris formerly known?

18  What is closest relative to the Kagu of New Caledonia on both DNA and morphological evidence?

19  Of Hawaii’s 34 species of Honeycreeper, are 3, 13 or 23 now extinct?

20  The WWF (World Wildlife Fund/Worldwide Fund for Nature) was founded in 1961 by Julian Huxley, Max Nicholson and two other ornithologists. Name one.