crib, if less well organized?
12 What bird is known as ‘brain-fever bird’.
13 What is a bergander (or bargander)?
14 In which country is the world’s largest harrier roost?
15 From which of the following diseases have birds been known to suffer – gout, malaria, tuberculosis and influenza?
16 Which of the following are the subjects of reintroduction schemes in the British Isles: White-tailed Eagle, Golden Eagle, Red Kite, Great Auk and Corncrake?
17 What links 1) nesting Great-winged Petrels and Flesh-footed Shearwaters in Western Australia and 2) nesting Grey Petrels and White-chinned Petrels on Antipodes Island?
18 What is the main cause of death among Blue Cranes in South Africa?
19 The future of which European species is threatened by hybridisation with its non-migratory Japanese cousin?
20 What is the greatest known age attained by a Starling from BTO ringing results?
2007 B
Chris Harbard – OSME
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1 What bird was responsible for the loss of Eric Hosking’s left eye?
2 Which bird, last seen on Lake Alaotra in Madagascar in 1991, was rediscovered in northern Madagascar in 2006?
3 Apart from Malta, of course, which other EU country permits the spring shooting of Turtle Doves?
4 What is the greatest known age attained by a Tufted Duck from BTO ringing results?
5 What is the main ingredient of ambelopoulia in Cyprus?
6 Into which English county are Cirl Buntings being reintroduced from Devon?
7 Aquatic Warblers are now known to winter in Senegal. What guided researchers to look for them in Senegal?
8 What sort of bird is a Balicassiao?
9 In which European country do the majority of Eleanora’s Falcons breed?
10 Which of the following birds does not exist – Sapphire Quail Dove, Ruby Quail Dove, Emerald Dove, Diamond Dove?
11 How much did the magazine British Birds cost per month in 1907 when it was first published?
12 What was the Birdfair project in 2004?
13 Why is the Providence Petrel so called?
14 Which of the following diseases affects birds – Gull’s Disease, Swift-Feer Disease, Thrush, Diver’s Paralysis?
15 Which of the following is the most important threat to the Grenada Dove – hotel development, wind farms or the cage bird trade?
16 Name one site where Manx Shearwaters nest in England?
17 Macgregor’s Bird of Paradise Macgregoria pulchra is not a Bird of Paradise (Paradisaeidae) on DNA analysis. What is it?
18 What pigment is responsible for the pink in a flamingo’s plumage?
19 Where would you find a Priolo?
20 Name one of the two counties which which have contained the largest English rookeries during the last 30 years.
2007 C
Paul French – OBC
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1 At least 1,500 individuals of which species were recently observed in Syria, although the estimated world population was previously thought to be only about 400?
2 What is the function of the nasal gland, present in all birds but enlarged in most seabirds?
3 Name one of the flagship species for this year’s (2007) Birdfair.
4 When did the second pair of Choughs start breeding in Cornwall following their recolonisation of that county?
5 Which European country has the largest breeding population of Mute Swans?
6 What did French missionaries in Guadeloupe call the fat chicks of Black-capped Petrel, so that they could eat them during Lent with a clear conscience?
7 Which of the following diseases affect birds – psittacosis, puffinosis, wry neck and Parrot’s disease?
8 What species of hummingbird regularly breeds in Alaska?
9 Which of the following birds does not exist – Baza, Bozo, Besra, Brolga?
10 Which of the following is the most important threat to the Puerto Rican Nightjar – hotel development, wind farms or the cage bird trade?
11 What was the ornithological name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship when he set off to circumnavigate the world in 1577, although it was later changed to The Golden Hind?
12 What was the Birdfair project in 2003?
13 Which of the following species have bred in the wild in the British Isles this century: Rosy-faced Lovebird, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Blue-crowned Parakeet and Monk Parakeet?
14 The oldest known Whimbrel was found injured, bitten by a Cape Fur-seal on Bird Island, Algoa Bay, in South Africa in 2005. How old was it?
15 A chick of which species hatched on 1st January 2007 in a captive breeding programme in Haryana in India at least one year before its parents were expected to breed?
16 What Critically Endangered petrel, unrecorded with certainty since 1929, was photographed in the Coral Sea off Australia in 2006?
17 Which 7th-century hermit has been described as Britain’s first bird conservationist?
18 When do the Pheasant and Partridge shooting seasons end?
19 What sort of bird is a Huet-huet?
20 To what kind of morbidly obese bird was Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School likened?
2007 D
Mark Andrews – ABC
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1 What is a Sprosser?
2 Which species bred in London for the first time in 1926 on the derelict site of the Wembley Exhibition?
3 Which book won the BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2006 award?
4 In which country does the adult Syrian population of Bald Ibises winter (as was recently discovered by satellite tracking)?
5 The average male of which rare British breeding bird can mimic at least 76 other bird species – half of them African?
6 What was the Birdfair project in 2002?
7 Where would you hope to find the Obscure Berrypicker?
8 What disease resulted in a permanent ban on the import of wild birds into the EU in January 2007?
9 What Critically Endangered species was rediscovered after 100 years by a shepherd looking for a lost goat in Peru in 1977?
10 Which of the following birds does not exist – Boubou, Brubru, Bobo, Boobook?
11 Which of the following is the most important threat to the Lear’s Macaw – hotel development, wind farms or the cage bird trade?
12 Which European warbler spends 23.7 minutes per copulation on average?
13 How old was a Lesser Flamingo found dead at Lake Bogoria in Kenya in July 2003 that had been ringed by Leslie Brown and Alan Root as a chick?
14 Roughly how many