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1  What is the principal diet of the European Bee-eater?

2  What is the principal diet of the Macaroni Penguin?

3  Which American sparrow is named after Charles Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge?

4  How many ossicles do birds have in their middle ear?

5  Which has the longer tail – Caspian Tern or Cuckoo?

6  Name two of the three species of Critically Endangered ducks that are not confined to islands?

7  For a bonus, name the third.

8  What mammal was responsible for the deaths of both Prince Ruspoli and Johan Wahlberg after whom a turaco and eagle are named?

9  Which well-known ornithologist, who died this year, wrote The Private Life of the Street Pigeon in 1979 and also recorded Witherby’s Sound Guide to British Birds with Myles North?

10  Which of the following birds does not exist: Kiwi, Pewee, Weewee, Iiwi?

11  What is a sod in Shetland?

12  What is the connection between the Silver Invicta, the Golden Olive Bumble and the (Eurasian) Jay?

13  What is the matter with a falconer’s hawk if it has craye?

14  What birds can be Broad-tailed, Pin-tailed, Shaft-tailed and Straw-tailed?

15  Which philosopher and ornithologist, born 2,393 years ago, is commemorated in the Latin name of a British seabird?

16  Who is the Director of the British Trust for Ornithology?

17  Which is the only warbler included in the Farmland Bird Index?

18  When was the Neotropical Bird Club founded?

19  Which is the only species of crane that has an increasing population trend?

20  Prior to the 2001 record of Magpie on St Martin’s, how many had previously been recorded on Scilly?