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Bird Knowledge #2

Can you answer these random trivia questions about birds?
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What bird is a common symbol of peace, especially when carrying an olive branch?
Dove
What type of bird comes in snowy, barn, and screech varieties?
Owl
What type of bird was pursued by Wile E. Coyote?
Roadrunner
The Red Junglefowl is the world's most common bird. What is it more commonly known as?
Chicken
What bird, sometimes considered a pest, is the world's most common wild bird?
House Sparrow
What activity involving birds has been called "the sport of kings"?
Falconry
What bird's distinctive pink color is caused by the beta-carotene in its plankton-based diet?
Flamingo
What bird was worshipped in ancient Egypt?
Sacred Ibis
What is the largest species of waterfowl?
Trumpeter Swan
What flightless bird, once found in Mauritius, went extinct shortly
after it was discovered in the 1600s?
Dodo
What is the name for a pen made out of a bird feather?
Quill
What is the national bird of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador?
Andean Condor
What animated movie featured a red-billed hornbill named Zazu?
The Lion King
What bird, starting with the letter P, is a type of auk with an orange beak?
Puffin
What is the word for a male duck?
Drake
What is the state bird of Maryland - and also the namesake of a baseball team?
Baltimore Oriole
In what country would you be most likely to find a bird-of-paradise?
Papua New Guinea
or Indonesia
What type of bird displays huge tail feathers with "eyes" on them?
Peacock
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28 Comments
sillie
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Level 76
Jan 3, 2018
Would you also accept "hawking" for hunting with a bird? From wikipedia: "The practice of hunting with a conditioned falconry bird is also called "hawking" or "gamehawking"". Knew exactly what was meant, but couldn't come up with the word you wanted.
sillie
+3
Level 76
Jan 3, 2018
These two bird quizzes were great, by the way. The second was harder than the first, but a nice variety of questions.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 3, 2018
Hawking will work now
jlhawley
+3
Level 72
Jan 5, 2018
Falconing?
BenSP
+3
Level 78
Jan 3, 2018
Good Quizes, Approachable even if you are not interested in wild life. I like that the second was harder. I'd love to see another. Wildlife quizzes are hard to write I think you've struck a good balance
mightythor
+2
Level 66
Jan 4, 2018
Oh THAT kind of pen. I said coop :).
Anzi
+2
Level 69
Mar 12, 2018
Argh! Wrote hen and never tried chicken. Would you accept hen?
Archangel55
+1
Level 66
May 14, 2018
The Emperor Penguin is much bigger than the Trumpeter Swan (Lower end weight is 49 pounds vs 25 pounds for the swan).
Pharley
+10
Level 74
May 14, 2018
But it's not waterfowl
RC1
+2
Level 71
May 14, 2018
Birds of Paradise are native to Australia too - check Wikipedia
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
May 14, 2018
But is that where you are most likely to find one?
mez
+1
Level 72
Dec 27, 2018
yes :)
Speed4TheNeed
+2
Level 89
Feb 2, 2022
A bit of semantics here, but many more people visit Australia than Papua New Guinea, so...
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 69
May 30, 2024
That depends on where you live.
JMM
+4
Level 58
May 14, 2018
The Red-billed quelea is the worlds most common wild bird. There are estimates of around 1.5 Billion individuals.
Si2
+1
Level 66
May 15, 2018
Wikipedia does seem to back this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_quelea
AlmostAGenius
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Level 84
Dec 30, 2022
Yep. This appears to be true. From Wikipedia’s page on the House Sparrow: “The IUCN estimates for the global population runs up to nearly 1.4 billion individuals, second among all birds perhaps only to the red-billed quelea in abundance”. I would suggest changing the clue.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
May 14, 2018
oh, duh, I wasn't thinking about birds bred in captivity... of course there are millions if not billions of those.
mikeyp
+1
Level 72
May 14, 2018
Would you accept Indiana State?
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
May 16, 2018
Got all but was stumped with Baltimore Oriole, never heard of it, I thought it was a cookie...
HyddenRizz
+3
Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
Yes, this question is very random compared to the rest! Almost impossible for most of the world to answer
Sealantmajor
+1
Level 54
May 16, 2018
I thought it was written ibex, then I saw it's a goat.
Zefyrinus
+1
Level 72
May 26, 2018
Could hen and falconeering be accepted?
JackintheBox
+1
Level 81
Feb 27, 2021
I've never heard of 'roadrunner' before :/
Kiwigeokid2007
+1
Level 63
Sep 28, 2021
Probably should be a question about the largest bird ever to exist, that logically makes sense, or at least the smallest bird.
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 70
Oct 31, 2023
I had no idea that chickens were called "red junglefowl" !
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 69
May 30, 2024
Great quiz, I got them all (through bird knowledge not Baltimore knowledge).
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 70
Mar 12, 2025
I would say that chickens were domesticated FROM the red junglefowl
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