Illinois Audubon Society Birding Trivia

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1. Which accipiter has a conspicuous eyebrow, a grey back and white belly with gray barring.

Copper’s hawk

16.6%

Sharp-shined hawk

17.2%

Northern goshawk

66.2%

2. Which member of the gull family is distinguished from other gulls by their pointed wings and bill? These birds dive into the water after their prey.

Skimmers

16.4%

Terns

71.4%

Noddies

12.3%

3. What bird has a 5-foot-long windpipe?

Sandhill crane

23.4%

Whooping crane

46.2%

White pelican

30.4%

4. What is the more commonly known name for the songbird known as the snakeskin bird?

Great crested flycatcher

31.3%

Gray catbird

29.1%

Northern Mockingbird

39.6%

6. Why is Pelican Island famous in U.S. bird history?

Location of the last known seaside sparrow.

8.9%

First National Wildlife Refuge.

72.0%

Winter home of Roger Tory Peterson.

19.1%

7. The plumage of which two birds brought $32 an ounce to plume hunters in 1903?

The great egret and snowy egret

67.7%

Roseate spoonbill and snowy egret

28.0%

Great blue heron and great egret

4.3%

8. What widowed U.S. President had a trained mockingbird as a companion?

Thomas Jefferson

27.0%

Andrew Jackson

24.7%

James Buchanan

48.3%

9. What year was the bald eagle declared our national symbol?

1776

17.4%

1802

48.0%

1782

34.6%

10. Who authored the Life Histories of North American Birds (1919-1958)?

Roger Tory Peterson

54.2%

Arthur C. Bent

21.7%

Joseph Grinnell

24.1%

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