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Family
Quiz
Fascinating,
friendly, and
helpful, birds
have shared our
planet for
millions of
years. How high
can you fly in
this leathered
'I.Q/ test?
Answers and
scoring are at
the end.
BY JAMES MOISE
BIRDS
OF A FEATHER
I Birds have been found in every
corner of the world except
the Sahara Desert the Antarctic
tropical jungles interior
the Himalayas
2. Biologists believe that birds developed from
reptiles
amphibians
fishes
insects
3. Birds have something no other animal has:
wings
webbed feet
fins
feathers
4. An Archaeopteryx is a
small dinosaur primitive architect
prehistoric bird form of dodo
5. Penguins cannot fly. Neither can rheas, emus,
kiwis, and
Whooping cranes ostriches
wild turkeys ground-based
cuckoos
6. Two birds imported from Europe during the
last century are the English house sparrow and
the
falcon curlew
starling warbler
7. Information on the flight paths and distri-
bution of birds is scientifically gathered by
macro-photography bird banding
radar photoelectric
counters
■HuthnerjiftH-
8. The largest penguin species in the world is
called the
king president
emperor polar
9. Some birds can do it all—fly, walk, swim, and
dive. One of these is the
common loon river hawk
roadrunner waterthrush
living
10. There are now close to
species of birds.
1,500 9,000
5,000 15,000
11. An adult ostrich may weigh
45 pounds 160 pounds
210 pounds 345 pounds
12. The smallest bird in the world is the
wood peewee
shrimp owl
bee hummingbird
titmouse
13. Hawks are protected birds because they de-
stroy common pests. A sparrow hawk, for exam-
ple, may eat as many as mice a year.
50 200
100 300
14. Birds of prey, such as hawks and owls, divide
the natural world into two parts,
land and water rainforest and
urban and rural desert
night and day
15. The Great Auk, the Carolina parakeet, the
passenger pigeon, and the ivory-billed wood-
pecker share a common problem:
they cannot fly they are extinct
sensitivity to cold vanishing habitat
16. Many bird species travel each year between
the northern and southern hemisphere, a phe-
nomenon known as
transcendentalism
seasonal displacement
hibernation
migration
17. Birds may be identified in the field by such
characteristics as song, size, color, and
distribution
flight patterns
stomach contents
eye color
ANSWERS: (1) the Antarctic interior (2) reptiles
(3) feathers (4) prehistoric bird (5) ostriches (6)
starling (7) bird banding (8) emperor (9) com-
mon loon (10) 9,000 (11) 345 pounds (12) bee
hummingbird (13) 300 (14) night and day (15)
they are extinct (16) migration (17) flight pat-
terns.
SCORING: 14-17 correct—Audubon would be
proud! 8-13 correct—Add a feather to your cap!
Seven or less correct—better clean your binocu-
lars! ■
74
October 1990 rfc Scouting
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