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1  What is the principal diet of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (outside the breeding season)?

2  What is the principal diet of the Bananaquit?

3  Who is the Chief Executive Officer of BirdLife International?

4  What birds can be Bronze-winged, Double-banded and Cream-coloured?

5  Who, born 300 years ago, on 10th March, has a jay, an eider and a sea-cow named after him?

6  Which has the longer wing – Corncrake or Common Swift?

7  Do birds have a spleen?

8  Which of the following birds does not exist: Bald Parrot, Bald Bulbul, Bald Eagle, Bald Ibis?

9  What is snarge?

10  Name two Critically Endangered species which occur in continental USA (if not yet extinct)?

11  For a bonus, name two more.

12  How many different Rosses are Ross’s Goose, Ross’s Gull and Ross’s Turaco named after?

13  Which is named after who?

14  What migrated from Beech Grove to The Nunnery in 1991?

15  What is a falconer’s hawk doing if it is having a jenk?

16  Apart from the Rook, which other corvid is included in the Farmland Bird Index?

17  Who, born 200 years ago this September, wrote of the Eagle that: ‘He clasps the crag with crooked hands;/Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands’?

18  How many years ago was the Oriental Bird Club founded?

19  When did Cetti’s Warbler first breed in Britain in recent times, within three years?

20  In which country can you see both Groundscraper Thrush and Cloud-scraping Cisticola?