Here’s my wild questions to puzzle over...
HERE’S my Christmas quiz. Now we’ll see if you have been paying attention! 1. This creature is not a cat, the specimens seen in this region are not from Eastern Europe, and it smells. What is it? 2. Which type of rare birds are often seen around Nimmo’s Pier, Galway? 3. What does B.T.O. stand for? 4. Why is the waxwing so called? 5. Where would you hear the boom of a bittern in this region? 6. This bird sounds like an American car, but is also a winter visitor from Siberia? 7. I’ve just been to Lapland. Fill in the missing words to discover some of the animals I was looking for: Brown ......... Siberian ...... 8. And this big bird, often seen jumping about at a Scottish dance? 9. Give two names for the natural light show above the Arctic Circle? 10. Ospreys fly to Africa for the winter, true or false? 11. Why are birds ringed? 12. Which animal is responsible for killing the most young birds in our gardens - the cat or the magpie? 13. Which animal, long extinct in the UK, was released into the wild in Scotland in 2009? 14. Bats are blind, true or false? 15. Who was Brueghel the Elder? 16. Which species of eagle has been successfully re-released to the West Coast of Scotland? 17. What is melanism? 18. Name the ‘butcher bird’. 19. When a visiting bird is described as a ‘Passage Bird’, what does it mean? 20. What is a pure white Gyr?