Young Naturalists Quiz

1. The Sally Picker is an Irish name for what bird?

2. The village of Shillelagh is in what Leinster County?

3. One for the kids; complete this old saying, birds of a feather?

4. ‘What name is given to a hare less than one year old?

5. What name is given to a salmon that has spent only one year at sea?

6. Why is the missile thrush so called?

7. What very rare small elusive bird lives among the grass and corn?

8. What famous nursery rhyme is said to have been written by the 16th century physician Thomas Mouffet

9. Complete the second line of the poem, Leisure by W.H. Davies; What is this life if?

10. Name the flower mentioned in the Bible of which it is said; they neither toil nor spin and yet outshine Solomon in all his glory?