🦅 Birds Trivia - Mind-Blowing Avian Facts That Will Amaze Every Nature Lover

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What is the exact incubation period in days for the emperor penguin measured in the wild at Cape Washington colonies?

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Which bird can mimic human speech with remarkable clarity?

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What is the precise average number of wingbeats per second recorded for Rufous Hummingbird in steady hover at sea level?

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Which bird is known for its iridescent tail used in courtship displays?

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Which folkloric nursery rhyme mentions four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie with a surprise?

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Which bird is known for building huge stick nests on power poles?

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Which precise pigment gives the pink color of flamingos derived from carotenoids in brine shrimp and algae?

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Which iconic Christmas carol bird is offered on day one of The Twelve Days of Christmas?

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Which bird shares its name with a piece of sports equipment for batting?

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Which bird holds the official title for fastest level flight measured by radar over 67 miles per hour?

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In what year did the dodo become widely accepted as extinct based on last credible sightings from Mauritius?

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In what year did the International Ornithological Congress first standardize English bird family names globally?

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Which bird can rotate its head about 270 degrees to look behind?

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Which early printed work by Ulisse Aldrovandi first used a compendium approach to birds in 1599?

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Which seabird follows ships to snatch scraps and has a loud squawk?

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Which backyard bird is known for hammering acorns into tree bark as a pantry?

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Which nation counts the kiwi as a national icon appearing on its one dollar coin introduced in 1991?

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Which tall bird dances in elaborate courtship with leaping bows and calls?

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Which bird famously delivered the first recorded airmail across the English Channel in 1873?

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Which bird took the title of state bird of Hawaii in 1957?

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What is the exact total number of recognized bird families in the IOC World Bird List version 14.1?

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Which precise museum catalogue number holds the only known complete great auk skin at the Natural History Museum London?

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In 1918 which US act protected migratory birds through federal treaties and regulations?

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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird published 1960 what bird is in the moral title?

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What is the maximum verified wingspan for the wandering albatross measured by researchers?

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Which British racing pigeon won the 1913 London to Edinburgh race and was later taxidermied?

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Which bird set the absolute longest non stop recorded flight tracked by satellite in 2020?

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Which parrot of the genus Cyanoramphus recolonized predator free islands after translocations beginning in 2003?

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Which bird has a syrinx that can produce two different notes at once enabling complex song?

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Which bird is associated with the myth of the phoenix by resemblance and often painted rising from flames?

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Which backyard bird is famous for a bright red breast in North America?

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Which 1983 chart hit by Nena mentions balloons and includes a red avian in the English video imagery?

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Which specific Andean Condor individual achieved the highest recorded altitude for a tagged bird soaring over 6500 meters?

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Which bird produced the earliest known fossil evidence of modern crown birds from the Late Cretaceous of Belgium?

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Which flightless bird native to New Zealand has nostrils at the tip of its long bill?

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Which US Navy airship class was named after a seabird and commissioned in 1931 with helium lift?

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Which gull species famously adapted to landfill feeding leading to a population surge in Britain during the 1970s?

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Which bird was used as a canary in coal mines to detect toxic gases until the practice ended in the UK in 1986?

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Which bird is featured as a fast chase in the Looney Tunes cartoons with Beep Beep?

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Which nocturnal bird calls out hoot hoot in many children's books?

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In falconry what is the precise term for the small leather straps attached to a raptor's legs used for handling?

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Which nation features the resplendent quetzal on its currency with the quetzal as monetary unit since 1925?

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What is the precise egg laying interval for the common cuckoo between successive parasitic eggs in the same territory?

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Which ornithologist described the ivory billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis in 1832 based on specimens from the US South?

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Which small brown bird famously taught letters on Sesame Street?

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In which year did the New Zealand government declare the kākāpō officially extinct in the wild before rediscovery on Stewart Island?

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In 1963 which Hitchcock film used gulls and crows to terrorize Bodega Bay?

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Which species produces the loudest recorded bird call with decibel levels over 125?

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Which early aviator studied albatross dynamic soaring to design controlled glider turns in 1903?

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Which bird is the national symbol on the Great Seal of the United States?

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Which bird is famous for walking like a person in a tuxedo along icy shores?

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Which bird pounds on wood to find insects and drum territory?

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What bird famously delivers mail at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series?

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In 1840 which artist created the lithograph Audubon's Wild Turkey Cock for the Bien edition with precise hand coloring?

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Which large pink bird filters shrimp with a uniquely bent bill?

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Which country chose the hoopoe as national bird in 2008 after a public vote?

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Which bird inspired the first successful airplane wings through careful study by the Wright brothers?

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Which early Mesopotamian tablet from Nineveh contains a myth where a dove is released before a raven in a flood narrative?

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Which common city pigeon is descended from rock doves?

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Which bird appears on the Mexican flag grasping a serpent?

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Which island nation features the frigatebird in its national emblem with wings spread over a canoe?

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Which bird features in the 1941 Disney short about a stubborn hatchling who will not eat a worm?

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Which bird has a beak that can hold multiple fish crosswise at once?

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Which museum holds the holotype of the New Zealand Huia Heteralocha acutirostris collected in the nineteenth century?

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Which bird inspired the Twitter original logo named Larry?

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Which Icelandic law code from 1755 specifically protected eider duck down farms with penalties for nest disturbance?

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What is the largest living bird by height?

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Which bird was central to the Apollo 11 call sign for the lunar module that landed in 1969?

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Which 2019 documentary followed a Kazakh girl training a raptor for golden eagle hunting?

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Which bird is known for running very fast across the African savanna?

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Which bird has a bill that locks fish with backward pointing serrations?

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Which Caribbean nation features the scarlet ibis as a national bird alongside the cocrico?

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Which specific Bar tailed Godwit individual coded 4BBRW set the 2020 nonstop flight record from Alaska to New Zealand?

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Which 1735 publication by Linnaeus established the genus Struthio for ostriches in Systema Naturae?

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Which bird's breeding display involves inflating bright red throat pouches on remote Pacific islands?

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Which pipit species shows the fastest documented song flight climb rate measured in meters per second on alpine meadows?

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Which rock band released Free Bird in 1973 becoming a concert epic with extended guitar coda?

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Which small jewel toned bird hovers while sipping nectar?

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Which parrot species was proven by Irene Pepperberg to understand same different relations in controlled tests?

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Which island hosted the last confirmed wild population of dodo subfossil remains at Mare aux Songes?

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Which exact feather tract term refers to the shoulder patch that is often colored in many passerines?

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What was the exact launch year of Angry Birds the mobile game that popularized stylized avians?

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Which large white waterbird has a long S shaped neck and graceful glide?

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Which 1937 paper by Bernhard Rensch formulated the ecological rule later applied to bird body size variation across climates?

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Which bird species exhibits obligate brood parasitism in North America laying eggs in the nests of over 200 hosts?

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Which subspecies of Canada Jay formerly called Gray Jay became Canada's proposed national bird in 2016?

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What exact date did John James Audubon publish the first plate of The Birds of America in Edinburgh?

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Which passerine holds the narrowest breeding niche restricted to serpentine seeps in California documented in 1983?

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Which bird is famous for delivering babies in Western folklore?

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Which bird is often credited with the first documented tool use in birds bending a wire in a 2002 Oxford study?

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Which composer scored The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970?

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Which US state selects the greater roadrunner as its official bird adopted in 1949?

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Which bird is known to steal shiny objects in folklore?

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Which stadium team uses a raven as a mascot named Poe unveiled in 2009?

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Which American poet wrote The Raven first published in 1845 with the refrain Nevermore?

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Which bird has the highest heart rate recorded in vertebrates during flight exceeding 1200 beats per minute?

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In what year did Rachel Carson publish Silent Spring highlighting pesticide impacts on raptors and songbirds?

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Which species performs the longest known avian song sequence with complex mimicry documented in southeastern Australia?

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Which bird specializes in drinking nectar and producing copious sugar rich droppings that pollinate as they feed in Australia?

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Which precise year did Phoebe Snetsinger record her ten thousandth bird species on her life list according to her memoir?

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Which bird migrates from the Arctic to Antarctica and back each year?

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What is the exact count of cervical vertebrae in a typical swan allowing extreme neck flexibility?

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Which bird drinks seawater and excretes the salt through nasal glands?

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Which seabird rookery on Bass Rock Scotland holds the world's largest colony of northern gannets with precise counts exceeding 150000 pairs?

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What is the exact feather count of a typical adult swan Mute Swan as documented in museum specimens?

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Which bird is the state bird of New York famous for blue plumage?

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Which bird appears as a collectible in the 2013 game Flappy Bird that sparked a viral craze?

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Which bird is sacred in many cultures and often associated with wisdom?

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In which year did the US Fish and Wildlife Service delist the peregrine falcon from the endangered list after recovery?

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Which definitive 1934 monograph by Arthur Cleveland Bent began the Life Histories of North American Birds series for passerines?

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Which literary detective keeps pigeons on a roof in Umberto Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum?

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Which South American bird is renowned for a hammer like bill used to catch lungfish at night?

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Which exact site in Madagascar did Alfred Grandidier collect specimens leading to the description of the elephant bird genus Aepyornis?

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Which bird is the universal symbol of peace?

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Which exact pigment combination creates the structural blue of a blue jay confirmed by spectrophotometry?

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Which bird is the fastest in a high speed dive recorded over 200 miles per hour?

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What exact count of tail feathers does a typical turkey display in a full fan according to standard measurements?

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Which bird species lays a single giant egg sometimes over 15 percent of the female's body mass?

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Which bird dives for fish with a dramatic plunge?

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What is the verified maximum age for a wild albatross named Wisdom a Laysan female first banded in 1956?

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Which bird species is tied to the 1972 Clean Water Act recovery of the lower Hudson estuary as a flagship?

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Which bird's call sounds like whip poor will repeatedly at dusk?

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Which bird has the largest documented wingspan among living flying birds measured at 3.63 meters for a specific individual?

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What is the exact incubation period in days for the emperor penguin measured in the wild at Cape Washington colonies?

Which bird can mimic human speech with remarkable clarity?

What is the precise average number of wingbeats per second recorded for Rufous Hummingbird in steady hover at sea level?

Which bird is known for its iridescent tail used in courtship displays?

Which folkloric nursery rhyme mentions four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie with a surprise?

Which bird is known for building huge stick nests on power poles?

Which precise pigment gives the pink color of flamingos derived from carotenoids in brine shrimp and algae?

Which iconic Christmas carol bird is offered on day one of The Twelve Days of Christmas?

Which bird shares its name with a piece of sports equipment for batting?

Which bird holds the official title for fastest level flight measured by radar over 67 miles per hour?

In what year did the dodo become widely accepted as extinct based on last credible sightings from Mauritius?

In what year did the International Ornithological Congress first standardize English bird family names globally?

Which bird can rotate its head about 270 degrees to look behind?

Which early printed work by Ulisse Aldrovandi first used a compendium approach to birds in 1599?

Which seabird follows ships to snatch scraps and has a loud squawk?

Which backyard bird is known for hammering acorns into tree bark as a pantry?

Which nation counts the kiwi as a national icon appearing on its one dollar coin introduced in 1991?

Which tall bird dances in elaborate courtship with leaping bows and calls?

Which bird famously delivered the first recorded airmail across the English Channel in 1873?

Which bird took the title of state bird of Hawaii in 1957?

What is the exact total number of recognized bird families in the IOC World Bird List version 14.1?

Which precise museum catalogue number holds the only known complete great auk skin at the Natural History Museum London?

In 1918 which US act protected migratory birds through federal treaties and regulations?

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird published 1960 what bird is in the moral title?

What is the maximum verified wingspan for the wandering albatross measured by researchers?

Which British racing pigeon won the 1913 London to Edinburgh race and was later taxidermied?

Which bird set the absolute longest non stop recorded flight tracked by satellite in 2020?

Which parrot of the genus Cyanoramphus recolonized predator free islands after translocations beginning in 2003?

Which bird has a syrinx that can produce two different notes at once enabling complex song?

Which bird is associated with the myth of the phoenix by resemblance and often painted rising from flames?

Which backyard bird is famous for a bright red breast in North America?

Which 1983 chart hit by Nena mentions balloons and includes a red avian in the English video imagery?

Which specific Andean Condor individual achieved the highest recorded altitude for a tagged bird soaring over 6500 meters?

Which bird produced the earliest known fossil evidence of modern crown birds from the Late Cretaceous of Belgium?

Which flightless bird native to New Zealand has nostrils at the tip of its long bill?

Which US Navy airship class was named after a seabird and commissioned in 1931 with helium lift?

Which gull species famously adapted to landfill feeding leading to a population surge in Britain during the 1970s?

Which bird was used as a canary in coal mines to detect toxic gases until the practice ended in the UK in 1986?

Which bird is featured as a fast chase in the Looney Tunes cartoons with Beep Beep?

Which nocturnal bird calls out hoot hoot in many children's books?

In falconry what is the precise term for the small leather straps attached to a raptor's legs used for handling?

Which nation features the resplendent quetzal on its currency with the quetzal as monetary unit since 1925?

What is the precise egg laying interval for the common cuckoo between successive parasitic eggs in the same territory?

Which ornithologist described the ivory billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis in 1832 based on specimens from the US South?

Which small brown bird famously taught letters on Sesame Street?

In which year did the New Zealand government declare the kākāpō officially extinct in the wild before rediscovery on Stewart Island?

In 1963 which Hitchcock film used gulls and crows to terrorize Bodega Bay?

Which species produces the loudest recorded bird call with decibel levels over 125?

Which early aviator studied albatross dynamic soaring to design controlled glider turns in 1903?

Which bird is the national symbol on the Great Seal of the United States?

Which bird is famous for walking like a person in a tuxedo along icy shores?

Which bird pounds on wood to find insects and drum territory?

What bird famously delivers mail at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series?

In 1840 which artist created the lithograph Audubon's Wild Turkey Cock for the Bien edition with precise hand coloring?

Which large pink bird filters shrimp with a uniquely bent bill?

Which country chose the hoopoe as national bird in 2008 after a public vote?

Which bird inspired the first successful airplane wings through careful study by the Wright brothers?

Which early Mesopotamian tablet from Nineveh contains a myth where a dove is released before a raven in a flood narrative?

Which common city pigeon is descended from rock doves?

Which bird appears on the Mexican flag grasping a serpent?

Which island nation features the frigatebird in its national emblem with wings spread over a canoe?

Which bird features in the 1941 Disney short about a stubborn hatchling who will not eat a worm?

Which bird has a beak that can hold multiple fish crosswise at once?

Which museum holds the holotype of the New Zealand Huia Heteralocha acutirostris collected in the nineteenth century?

Which bird inspired the Twitter original logo named Larry?

Which Icelandic law code from 1755 specifically protected eider duck down farms with penalties for nest disturbance?

What is the largest living bird by height?

Which bird was central to the Apollo 11 call sign for the lunar module that landed in 1969?

Which 2019 documentary followed a Kazakh girl training a raptor for golden eagle hunting?

Which bird is known for running very fast across the African savanna?

Which bird has a bill that locks fish with backward pointing serrations?

Which Caribbean nation features the scarlet ibis as a national bird alongside the cocrico?

Which specific Bar tailed Godwit individual coded 4BBRW set the 2020 nonstop flight record from Alaska to New Zealand?

Which 1735 publication by Linnaeus established the genus Struthio for ostriches in Systema Naturae?

Which bird's breeding display involves inflating bright red throat pouches on remote Pacific islands?

Which pipit species shows the fastest documented song flight climb rate measured in meters per second on alpine meadows?

Which rock band released Free Bird in 1973 becoming a concert epic with extended guitar coda?

Which small jewel toned bird hovers while sipping nectar?

Which parrot species was proven by Irene Pepperberg to understand same different relations in controlled tests?