Quiz 11

Question 1

Hunts sparrow (South Africa)

Answer 1

Lanner Falcon

Question 2

Digs into Shearwater burrow to catch chick (New Zealand)

Answer 2

Kea

Question 3

Listens for lemming (Africa)

Answer 3

Great Grey Owl

Question 4

Cannot rotate eye in socket, keen vision detects movement of spider

Answer 4

Giant Scops-owl

Question 5

Hunts rabbits

Answer 5

Common Buzzard

Question 6

Can use UV vision to see urine of voles

Answer 6

Common Kestrel hovering

Question 7

Has no sense of smell

Answer 7

Griffon Vulture

Question 8

Has acute sense of smell with wide-open nostrils; naked head is red (rainforest in Trinidad)

Answer 8

Turkey vulture

Question 9

Fight in air with talons (Malaysia)

Answer 9

White-bellied Sea Eagles

Question 10

Hunts Maine Iguana

Answer 10

Galapagos Hawk

Question 11

Has long, double jointed legs to snatch lizard from rock cracks

Answer 11

African Harrier Hawk

Question 12

Impales lizard on Acacia thorn

Answer 12

Grey backed Fiscal

Question 13

Drops bone on rock to eat marrow

Answer 13

Lammergier

Question 14

Flies through apple orchard (English Wood)

Answer 14

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Question 15

Hunts monkeys

Answer 15

African Crowned Eagle

Question 16

Feeds on acorns

Answer 16

Eurasian Jay

Question 17

Feeds on Common Teasel seeds

Answer 17

European goldfinch

Question 18

Cracks small seeds

Answer 18

Blue tit

Question 19

Can remove outer shell of rose hips with tongue

Answer 19

Greenfinch

Question 20

Eats cherry stone: cracks shell, then removes papery husk

Answer 20

Hawfinch

Question 21

Opens green pine cones, swallows clay to absorb resin (California)

Answer 21

Common Crossbill

Question 22

Stores up to 9 acorns in crop, buries up to 3,000 a month

Answer 22

Eurasian Jay

Question 23

Stores up to 60,000 acorns in tree-constant maintenance (North America)

Answer 23

Acorn Woodpecker

Question 24

Drills holes and sips pine sap

Answer 24

Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Question 25

Drinks from sapsucker wells on aspen

Answer 25

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Question 26

Both birds drink from Sapsucker wells on birches

Answer 26

Bullock’s Oriole and Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Question 27

Drinks tree sap, hummer and warblers drinks from honeydew (Mexico)

Answer 27

Scale desert

Question 28

Feeds on grass and poops undigested parts; can fly straight up

Answer 28

Barnacle Goose

Question 29

Feeds on Acacia leaves, digests in sunlight (South Africa)

Answer 29

Speckled Mousebird

Question 30

Has bacteria in 2nd stomach to ferment leaves (South America)

Answer 30

Hoatzin

Question 31

Has brushy tongue to lap nectar (Australia)

Answer 31

Rainbow Lorikeet

Question 32

Pollinates Heather plant (South Africa)

Answer 32

Orange-breasted Sunbird

Question 33

Pollinates Lion’s Claw flower

Answer 33

Golden-winged Sunbird

Question 34

Steals nectar from hole in trumpet of Datura Flower

Answer 34

Black Flower Piercer

Question 35

Pollinates long trumpet of Datura plant and Banana Passion Flower

Answer 35

Sword-billed Hummingbird

Question 36

Attracts many birds

Answer 36

Purple Coral Tree

Question 37

Disperses seeds

Answer 37

Knobbed Hornbill

Question 38

Disperses berries

Answer 38

Bohemian Waxwing

Question 39

Disperse berries

Answer 39

Kokako

Question 40

Disperses avocado seeds

Answer 40

Resplendent Quetzal

Question 41

Catches Peleides Blue Morpho Butterfly

Answer 41

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Question 42

Eats ants, has stiff tail feathers

Answer 42

Rufous Woodpecker

Question 43

Picks insects out of bark

Answer 43

Eurasian Nuthatch

Question 44

Chisels for grubs in bark, has harpoon at tip of tongue

Answer 44

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Question 45

Uses cactus spine to dig grubs from trunk

Answer 45

Woodpecker Finch

Question 46

Uses stick to irritate huge grub from log

Answer 46

New Caledonian Crow

Question 47

Finds grubs rooted out by Wild Boar and humans

Answer 47

European Robin

Question 48

Finds grubs kicked up by Seychelles Giant Tortoise

Answer 48

Seychelles Magpie

Question 49

Follows Capybara

Answer 49

Cattle Tyrant

Question 50

Feeds on ticks on Hippopotamus: 2 toes forward and 2 toes back for clinging

Answer 50

Red-billed Oxpeckers

Question 51

Eat earwax and dandruff on Zebras and Giraffes and drink blood from Impala

Answer 51

Oxpeckers

Question 52

Disperses avocado seeds; Red-and-green Macaw eats the seeds

Answer 52

Emerald Toucanet

Question 53

Eats palm seeds

Answer 53

Hyacinth Macaw

Question 54

Ingest clay to counteract poison in seeds

Answer 54

Yellow-crowned parrot