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1  Which project will be supported by Birdfair next year?

2  Where else is an Azure-winged Magpie azure apart from the wings?

3  Which species of bird caused the greatest loss of human life in an air strike when 62 people were killed when birds brought down an Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1960?

4  Is Wilson’s Warbler named after Woodrow Wilson, the former US president?

5  In which country was the world’s largest Arctic Tern colony of over 50,000 pairs in 1950, which had been completely exterminated by 2000 due to egg-collecting?

6  Which Old World warbler breeds in the New World?

7  What species of bird has learned to peck around the tail of brooding Nazca Boobies in the Galapagos in order to drink the blood thereby produced?

8  What is urohidrosis?

9  What Critically Endangered species from Africa was depicted on last year’s Birdfair poster?

10  Which of the following does not exist: Golden-crowned Emerald, Sapphire-spangled Emerald, Ruby-necklaced Emerald, Coppery-headed Emerald?

11  In 1930 what happened when the last remaining female Laysan Duck had her eggs destroyed by a Bristle-thighed Curlew?

12  Which Critically Endangered species has Birdwatch magazine championed as part of BirdLife International’s Guardians and Champions project?

13  What was the ornithological-sounding surname of the New Zealand winner of the silver medal in the 5,000 metres in the 1976 Olympic Games?

14  What object attached to a White Stork shot in Mecklenburg in Germany in 1822 gave a clue that storks wintered in Central Africa?

15  What colour is the iris of the Stock Dove?

16  Which country is home to the most species of Critically Endangered hummingbird?

17  Who was Roger Tory Peterson’s companion on a 25,000 mile tour of North America in 1953, resulting in the book Wild America?

18  What happened to the first captive-bred Philippine Eagle to be released in the Philippines?

19  What name does the International Ornithological Congress (IOC) recommend that we now use for (Common) Crossbill Loxia curvirostra?

20  In what year did the Cattle Egret colonise South America? Give the decade.