Build-a-Bird by Guessing Countries

Name the 21 countries that have the most species of birds, according to the BirdLife International checklist. Each correct answer will complete a portion of three bird images. Identify the three birds to complete the quiz.

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Last updated: February 22, 2022

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First submitted	February 14, 2022
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#	Answer
1863	Colombia
1861	Peru
1816	Brazil
1722	Indonesia
1622	Ecuador
1435	Bolivia
1387	Venezuela

#	Answer
1285	China
1210	India
1110	Democratic Republic of the Congo
1100	Mexico
1073	Tanzania
1058	Kenya
1034	Myanmar

#	Answer
1001	Argentina
998	Uganda
936	Thailand
920	Angola
914	Sudan
888	Cameroon
884	Panama

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66 Comments

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Level 85

Feb 15, 2022

Thanks for the kind comments! Just a little background... my quizzes are often inspired by books I've recently read or a subject that's grabbed my interest. In this case, I read a book called "Birding Without Borders." The author, Noah Strycker, traveled the world from January through December 2015 trying to identify as many birds as possible. He visited 41 countries across every continent (including Antarctica) and found 6,042 out of the 10,400 known species (which was a record at the time for a single year). For anyone interested in both geography and nature, it's a great read.

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Level 85

Feb 22, 2022

Choosing a source for this quiz was a challenge. There are many different ways to count species, so you'll find lots of variation among different lists. I chose BirdLife International, but you could also go with the Clements Checklist (popular in North America) or the IOC Checklist (popular outside North America). Interestingly, there is a current effort to consolidate the most popular checklists, and if that happens, I'll gladly update this quiz.

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Level 77

Feb 14, 2022

Stunning as always!

Also, happy 8th anniversary dug :D

Level 85

Feb 15, 2022

Thanks Bread!

+14

Level 71

Feb 14, 2022

Great design! I love the "faceted" rendering of the birds! It reminds me of my old hobby for papercrafts and origami :)

Level 85

Feb 15, 2022

Thanks! Origami is cool. :)

Level 57

Feb 14, 2022

A few minutes and it goes flying for a star! Awesome!

+16

Level 57

Feb 14, 2022

Taking these kind of "raw data" quizzes with such estethical presentation gives so much more fun and lust for playing! Wonderful :)

Level 83

Feb 14, 2022

21, not 25 countries

Level 85

Feb 15, 2022

Thanks for the heads up! Fixed.

Level 82

Feb 14, 2022

That was fun and interesting!

Level 71

Feb 14, 2022

Amazing quiz! The mosaic-like drawings are already beautiful and the color scheme makes it even better. Also, congrats on 8 years of JetPunk! :)

Level 55

Feb 14, 2022

Wow! An other masterpiece by dug! That's always a pleasure to see you back again and again through years, bruing more new ideas each time. You are probably one of the users who enriched the most pur favorite website, and I'm sure and I hope it will continue for years and years.

Nomi... Wait, that's already featured? You have all my congratulations! That was completely deserved!

Level 83

Feb 14, 2022

Jetpunk, where obscure general knowledge becomes art, I love this community haha

Level 83

Feb 14, 2022

This was really cool! I hope you make more of these sorts of quizzes!

Level 76

Feb 14, 2022

One of the most beautiful quizzes on Jetpunk. My favourite quizzes are ones like these that are also works of art. Thanks!

Level 82

Feb 14, 2022

surprised CAR and Mozambique and esp. PNG not on the list, but i don't know a lot about birds, just thought those countries would prob. have more tropical forest than say panama etc

Level 80

Feb 14, 2022

Plenty of species in PNG would not yet have been scientifically identified. I was surprised it wasn't higher in the list too.

Level 85

Feb 15, 2022

Totally agree about PNG. Some great and unique birds there. The source has them at #31 on the list. CAR is 35 and Mozambique is 44.

Level 82

Feb 21, 2022

Biologically and geographically speaking, most islands would not have an extreme amount of diversity because any species that are on the island would have to individually evolve into their own species to increase diversity. The only reason Indonesia is on here is because it is made up of many large islands which have vastly different habitats, thus creating more species.

Level 68

Feb 22, 2022

You do realize that some species of birds fly thousands of miles to migrate, and are not confined to any island. (I don't know about PNG specifically, other than that there are some species that migrate between PNG and Australia).

Level 84

Feb 14, 2022

Excellent. Original and fun and the mosaic birds look so good .Well done.

Level 80

Feb 14, 2022

Amazing quiz. Well done!

Level 85

Feb 14, 2022

Awesome quiz! Got 100%. Finally a quiz by countries with the most species.

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Level 83

Feb 14, 2022

Turkey doesn't feature here, but it would rank pretty high in a list of countries by number of bird species in their names.

Level 74

Feb 15, 2022

I love this quiz <3

Level 79

Feb 15, 2022

Really great quiz.

Level 86

Feb 16, 2022

What a fantastic quiz! I loved it! Thank you so much for making it!

Level 88

Feb 16, 2022

Loved it! Keep them coming!

Level 70

Feb 16, 2022

Great quiz! Thank you. I felt really good about myself when I got the last one with 10 seconds to go. Was quite a bit surprised though that Costa Rica wasn`t in the mix...

Level 67

Feb 16, 2022

Great quiz. Grateful for the originality and creativity

Level 88

Feb 17, 2022

Fun quiz. Amazed to find Sudan on here but not the Philippines.

Level 66

Feb 21, 2022

Amazing quiz! Countries and birds, two things I like :)

Level 38

Feb 21, 2022

I just missed Sudan and Uganda, and didn’t recognise the parakeet.

Level 54

Feb 21, 2022

It was such a good quiz! I hope more quizzes (thats the plural of quiz I hope) like this on Jetpunk they get you thinking

Level 73

Feb 21, 2022

Great quiz dug! I love these type of drawings and as some people have commented above, it really reminded me of origami! :)

BTW, is it possible to create that gradient like background in Inkscape?

Level 85

Feb 22, 2022

Thanks! Yes, gradients are easy to make in inkscape. I made a rectangle shape, selected "fill and stroke," and instead of choosing "flat color," select "linear gradient."

Level 61

Feb 21, 2022

I can't reply to your pinned post directly but if you're interested in a brilliant documentary on the birds of Colombia, the #1 country on your list, then look for The Birders from Colombiatravel on youtube.

Level 85

Feb 22, 2022

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Level 66

Feb 21, 2022

Well done. Excellent.

Level 62

Feb 21, 2022

Sudan eh? Was surprised at that one, especially as it's a bit of a desert nation in my mind. Maybe a lot of Eurasian migrants winter there.

Level 80

Feb 23, 2022

The Sudd wetlands are in South Sudan, but I wonder if the bird species were counted when Sudan included South Sudan?

Level 45

Feb 21, 2022

birds aren't real.

stay woke.

Level 60

Feb 21, 2022

i thought it was kolibri wow

Level 72

Feb 21, 2022

Great quiz! Looks like the US was left off the list, though. As of 2021, there are between 1125 and 1267 different species counted in the United States (depending on how you count)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_the_United_States

Level 81

Feb 21, 2022

That was definitely the strangest and most noticeable omission. I was also wondering about Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.

Level 85

Feb 22, 2022

Thanks! Choosing a source was a challenge. There are many different ways to count species, so you'll find lots of variation among different lists. I chose BirdLife International, but you could also go with the Clements Checklist (popular in North America) or the IOC Checklist (popular outside North America). Interestingly, there is a current effort to consolidate the most popular checklists, and if that happens, I'll gladly update this quiz.

That being said, the BirdLife list ranks the U.S. at #25, with 828 species. :)

Level 50

Feb 21, 2022

I don't know how but we did it without most of the parts of the picture

Level 57

Feb 21, 2022

Great quiz, thanks !

Level 60

Feb 21, 2022

Ah, but you see, the source includes pigeons which are obviously government spies. Even the most stupid person knows that, bah.

Level 70

Feb 22, 2022

Should've gotten Ecuador, forgot about Galapagos

Level 68

Oct 31, 2024

Its mostly the mainland that has the bird species

Level 75

Feb 23, 2022

Pretty sure that France would be on here if its "territories" that aren't technically external territories were included

Level 61

Jul 31, 2022

They're not effectively territories either...

Level 39

Feb 24, 2022

Great quiz, very well done! The bird designs are awesome.

Level 31

May 18, 2022

Nice design, kinda hard though. I joined a couple weeks ago and I still don't see why everyone seems to be smarter than me.

Level 65

Jan 1, 2023

you simply haven't been here long enough.

Level 82

Aug 30, 2022

Nice idea for a quiz, and great graphics.

Level 28

Nov 23, 2022

i have played almost all of your quizzes and they are all amazing

Level 41

Jan 18, 2023

The Waffle House has found its new host.

Level 43

Aug 6, 2023

I can't believe Australia, PNG and USA not on list

Level 86

Sep 19, 2023

Anyone else disappointed Turkey wasn't on the list?

Level 72

Mar 27, 2024

No but I tried it to get two for the price of one, when my middle bird wasnt showing much yet.

Level 72

Mar 27, 2024

I got two birds pretty quickly ( I think after 2 and 3 answers), the last one took a while, partly because I couldn't think of the english name of the bird I thought of. Got it in the end, well close enough to be accepted. Typed puffer fish first haha ( to get my memory going)

All the countries I missed were african, I did think of africa, but only typed countries from the top or bottom, for some reason not the middle part. (think I tried morocco, egypt, south africa, madagascar and maybe mozambique)> Ow wait I did get/think of congo though. And I see I missed panama too.

Tldr 7 wrong (6 african) but got all 3 birds

Level 67

Oct 29, 2024

I have a feeling the number for Sudan includes South Sudan. There's just no way a country that is 90% desert and whose mountain ranges are too small to cause hyperlocalised speciation ranks up there with all these tropical countries. South Sudan, on the other hand, has the huge Sudd swamp and reaches the edge of the Congo Basin at its southern border.

Level 49

Dec 4, 2024

i assumed when i got the three birds, the quiz would end automatically, since it says "identify all three birds to complete the quiz".

aside from that, this is a fun quiz!

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