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Test your 12 gifts of Christmas knowledge with this Christmas bird quiz!

The Christmas Bird Quiz

The partridge is a member of the pheasant family and has been a traditional game bird in England for centuries.

PHEASANT

The partridge is a member of which bird family?

The Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) is a common summer visitor to the UK.

Streptopelia turtur

What is the scientific name of the Turtle Dove?

There are a four well-known breeds of French hens; Faverolles, La Fleche, Crevecoeurs and Marans.

Four

There are X well-known breeds of French hens

Most people interpret a calling bird as a song bird.

Song bird

Most people interpret a calling bird as a....

Common (Ring-necked) Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) which were introduced to England from China in medieval times.

China

Common (Ring-necked) Pheasants were introduced to England from which country?

The Greylag Goose is a large, native British bird and is still traditionally eaten for Christmas.

Christmas

The Greylag Goose is a large, native British bird traditionally eaten for which holiday?

Nowadays Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) are protected birds but there are many surviving medieval recipes for swans.

True

Mute Swans are protected birds. True or false?

As their name suggests, cattle egrets tend to live near cattle as the animals’ hooves disturb invertebrate prey.

Cattle egret

Eight Maids-a-Milking represent which bird?

Although regarded by some as black, sinister and greedy, cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) have a distinctive bobbing stance when dancing which looks quite ladylike.

Black, sinister and greedy

The dancing bird 'cormorant' is known by many as...

To take flight a heron must leap into the air and when standing, hunched with their neck bent over their chest they look just like old men.

Leap into the air

Sandpipers (Actitis hypoleucos) make a distinctive three-note piping-like cry as they take off.

Take-off

Sandpipers make a distinctive three-note piping-like cry as they...

The presence of a great-spotted woodpecker is often announced by its loud call or by its distinctive spring ‘drumming’ display.

Clinging to the side of tree trunks and branches

The great-spotted woodpecker spends most of its time...

Put your head in the sand!

You're a real chirp off the old block with your birds.

Spreading your wings!

You are soaring!

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