28 Bird Trivia Questions and Answers
Bird trivia about the largest, the smallest and the strangest: albatrosses and hummingbirds, penguins and parrots, extinct birds, and the birds of poems and legends. A few questions deal with the words used for birds and their young. Answers are under each question.
There are 28 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.The bee hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world, is native to which island country?
Answer: Cuba
Open this question2.Which seabird has the largest wingspan of any living bird?
Answer: Wandering albatross (snowy albatross)
Open this question3.Which bird is the national bird of the United States?
Answer: Bald eagle
Open this question4.Which flightless bird is a national symbol of New Zealand?
Answer: Kiwi
Open this question5.The dodo, an extinct flightless bird, lived only on which island in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Mauritius
Open this question6.Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, who died in 1914, lived at the zoo of which American city?
Answer: Cincinnati
Open this question7.What is the name for the scientific study of birds?
Answer: Ornithology
Open this question8.Which naturalist and painter produced the illustrated work "The Birds of America" between 1827 and 1838?
Answer: John James Audubon
Open this question9.Which seabird makes the longest migration of any animal, flying each year from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back?
Answer: Arctic tern
Open this question10.What is a young swan called?
Answer: A cygnet
Open this question11.What is a male swan called?
Answer: A cob
Open this question12.Which fish-eating bird of prey is also known as the sea hawk or fish hawk?
Answer: Osprey
Open this question13.Which bird lays the largest eggs of any living bird?
Answer: Ostrich
Open this question14.Which flightless bird, the second-tallest living bird after the ostrich, is found only in Australia?
Answer: Emu
Open this question15.Flamingos get their pink color from what in their diet?
Answer: Carotenoids
Open this question16.What is a female peafowl called?
Answer: A peahen
Open this question17.The finches that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution live on which group of Pacific islands?
Answer: The Galápagos Islands
Open this question18.Fossils of Archaeopteryx, the famous feathered link between dinosaurs and birds, were first found in the nineteenth century in which country?
Answer: Germany
Open this question19.According to legend, the kingdom of England will fall if which birds ever leave the Tower of London?
Answer: Ravens
Open this question20.In Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which bird does the mariner shoot?
Answer: An albatross
Open this question21.The roadrunner belongs to which family of birds?
Answer: The cuckoo family
Open this question22.The laughing kookaburra, known for a call that sounds like human laughter, is native to which country?
Answer: Australia
Open this question23.Which nocturnal, flightless parrot of New Zealand is the heaviest parrot in the world?
Answer: Kakapo
Open this question24.Which bird is the national bird of India?
Answer: Indian peafowl (peacock)
Open this question25.Which very large South American vulture is a national symbol of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru?
Answer: Andean condor
Open this question26.Owls belong to which order of birds?
Answer: Strigiformes
Open this question27.Penguins live almost entirely in which hemisphere?
Answer: The Southern Hemisphere
Open this question28.The moa, an extinct group of flightless birds, lived only in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
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