Bird Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers for Bird Lovers
What are birds?
A: Birds, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterized by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled
eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered
heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
As far as reasoning power goes, what is the most
intelligent
family of birds?
A: Crow.
What bird is the international symbol of happiness?
A: Bluebird.
Emperor, Rock Hopper and jackass are all types of what?
A: Penguins.
What kind of bird is often described as being a thief and is
thought by some people to bring bad luck?
A: Magpie.
This animal was mentioned in 'Alice in Wonderland' and was last
sighted in Mauritius. What animal is it?
A: Dodo bird.
What still living bird has the worlds longest wingspan?
A: Albatross.
The Jay belongs to which bird family?
A: Crow.
What is the family name of doves and
pigeons?
A: Columidae.
What country does the Korat come from?
A: Thailand.
What was Long John
Silver's parrot's name?
A: Captain Flint.
What is the fastest animal on two legs?
A: Ostrich.
What is New Zealand's national bird?
A: Kiwi.
What is a young penguin called?
A: Chick.
What flightless extinct bird has the Latin name Didus Ineptus?
A: Dodo bird.
Animals living in what type of habitat are arboreal animals?
A: In or amongst trees.
What type of creature is collectively called an unkindness?
A: Ravens.
Macaws come from which continent?
A: South America.
A golden eagle escaped from the
London Zoo in
1965, what was its
name?
A: Goldie.
Is a Corncake a mammal, reptile, or bird?
A: Bird.
What type of mammals fly using echolocation?
A: Bats.
What kind of birds are trained to catch and fetch
fish?
A: Cormorants.
What kind of bird is the most common found in Briton?
A: Wren.
The study of birds eggs is called what?
A: Oology.
What type of animal was Dab-Dab in the Dr. Dolittle stories?
A: A Duck.
The shag belongs to what bird family?
A: Cormorant.
Turkey's originated in which country?
A: The United States.
What kind of a group of animals are a paddling?
A: Ducks.
Which animal is the only creature that has legs but can't walk on
them?
A: The Hummingbird.
What is a chemically castrated rooster called?
A: Capon.
A smew is what type of creature?
A: Wild duck.
What is the animal with the Latin name "syncerus caffer"?
A: Cape Buffalo.
Which animal has eyes larger than it's
brain?
A: Ostrich.
What variety of birds are Hooded and Carrion?
A: Crow.
What is the most numerous species of bird?
A: The Red-billed queleas.
They form enormous flocks , sometimes with how many birds?
A: Tens of thousands.
While some birds are essentially territorial or live in small family groups, other birds may form what?
A: Large flocks.
What are the principal benefits of flocking?
A: Safety in numbers and increased foraging efficiency.
Birds have a very efficient system for diffusing oxygen into their what?
A: Their
blood.
Birds have a ten times greater surface area to exchange gas volume than what?
A: Mammals.
Birds range in size from how small to how large?
A: From the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2. 75 m (9 ft) ostrich.
They rank as the world's most numerically-successful class of what?
A: Tetrapods, with approximately ten thousand living species.
More than half of these are passerines sometimes known as what?
A: Perching birds.
The only known bird groups without wings are the what?
A: The extinct moa and elephant birds.
Many species of birds are economically important as
food for what?
A: Human consumption and raw material in manufacturing.
Songbirds, parrots, and other species are popular as what?
A: Pets.
Guano (bird excrement) is harvested for use as what?
A: A fertilizer.
How many species have become extinct due to human activity since the 17th century?
A: About 120–130 species.
Recreational bird watching is an important part of what?
A: The ecotourism industry.
Birds produce offspring by doing what?
A: Laying eggs which are fertilized through sexual reproduction.
Most birds have an extended period of what after hatching?
A: Parental care.
The fossil record demonstrates that birds are modern feathered what?
A: Dinosaurs.
What are the closest living relatives of birds?
A: The crocodilians.
Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animals; several bird species make and use what?
A: Tools.
Many social species pass on knowledge across generations, which is considered a form of what?
A: Culture.
Where does the highest bird diversity occur?
A: In tropical regions.
Wings, which evolved from forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to what?
A: The loss of flight in flightless birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species of birds.
The digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for what?
A: For flight.
Some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some water birds, have further evolved for what?
A: Swimming.
Birds have been used as symbols of what?
A: Power, as in the magnificent Peacock Throne of the Mughal and Persian emperors.
Birds have evolved a variety of mating behaviors, with the peacock tail being perhaps the most famous example of what?
A: Sexual selection.
