Bit of a fun quiz on the Countryfile website should anyone want to have a go!
http://www.countryfile.com/countryside/quiz-test-your-knowledge-british-birds
Just had a go. I lost valuable seconds by typing one name as one word when they wanted it to be two (hmmmm, debatable) and by hyphenating part of another name when they wanted it not to be hyphenated (WRONG, Countryfile!)
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Am going to have to hold my head in shame... need to gen up on warblers :(
Well, believe it or not, I got stuck on one as I hadn't put one part of the name up, yet previous ones, where I put what I thought was correct full name, it only took the 'short' name.... Good fun though!
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I had a go and got them all right - blimey!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Wow, I have amazed myself with 17/18 just failing on the last one (Chiffchaff) !! I thought it was a warbler !
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It is a kind of warbler. I had to think about it!
Oh !! then I was almost right lol thanks Clare. I had said Willow Warbler !
If we ever adopt some kind of standardised bird name system, the Chiffchaff would probably be renamed the 'Chiffchaff Warbler'. And the Blackbird would be the 'Black Thrush', the Siskin the 'Siskin Finch' etc :)
I am annoyed that the quiz wouldn't accept 'Black-headed Gull' but would accept 'Black Headed Gull'. The hyphenated version is correct, in both usage and meaning. 'Black Headed Gull' means a gull that is black, and has a head!
The other thing I learned was that not every quiz requires you to put 'common' before buzzard.
This is why I love scientific names, less ambiguity :) though English names can have more charm.