How many birds can you name and rocognize?
The common birds which I can name and recognize include (alphabetically) are below this lovely budgie picture:
Budgie photo from Wikipedia.
Budgerigar at Fort Worth Zoo, Texas, USA. For more details and copyright see Wikipedia under Budgerigar.
My ten birds:
budgerigar (Also called a budgie - or common parakeet!)
Canadian flying geese
duck
magpie
parrot
robin
seagull
swan
toucan
vulture
That's exactly ten in total.
I had thought of the budgie as pretty widespread as a pet, and ordinary, but a parakeet as more exotic and unusual. It turns out that a common or caged budgie is a little parakeet.
Look close and the colours are gorgeous, yellow head, green body, and wow, that expression! Look at the big, practical claws, with long 'fingers' and long nails, clasping the branch so it can balance on a curved surface.
I could name but not recognize:
albatross
cuckoo
dodo
dwarf penguin
emperor penguin
I can recognize a penguin, but only distinguish the big emperor and the cute little dwarf if they are standing side by side.
emu / ostrich
kiwi
nightingale
ostrich
rhea / ostrich
That's another ten. Altogether twenty. (I wrote a comic poem about a rhea. One escaped near a motorway in the UK and caused chaos.)
What have I forgotten? Loads more.
blackbird
chicken
eagle - huge
kia (We saw a kia in New Zealand at a ski resort. We were thrilled to see it and photograph it close up - until we realised it had not eaten our car windscreen wipers. Warning signs told you not to feed them and attract them.)
quail - (Quail often appears on the menu of upmarket restaurants in Britain. I feel mean eating them.)
stork - (We saw them on rooftops in Alsace, and later in Romania.)
tits, blue tits and loads more
turkey
pheasant - (You often see them parading in the UK in stately homes and large countryside hotels.)
woodpecker (You see them vertical on tree trunks, tapping away.)
OWLS
What about owls? This heart-shaped face owl is a barn owl.
That's thirty. Amazing. I know thirty birds. I bet you and I know many more.
Here's the quiz:
1 Name a bird which is a pet and a member of the parakeet family.
2 Which kind of owl has a heart shape face?
3 Which bird pushes its egg into another bird's nest?
4 Which bird sings at night?
5 What is the small size penguin called?
6 Which owl was in the Harry Potter film?
7 What does RSPB stand for? (The last word is not Britain.)
8 What is the name of the large penguin?
9 Which red-breasted bird appears on British Xmas cards?
10 Which bird taps on the side of tree trunks?
Answers at end.
Useful Websites
BIRDS
RSPB (Royal Society For the Protection of Birds). Has newsletters, a website, online bookshop, features 170 nature reserves all over the UK to visit with panels and bird hides (not hiding the birds, hiding you from the birds), Xmas cards and more.
COUNTRIES
romaniatourism.com
visitbritain.org
visitbritain.com
visitbritain.shop
visitsingapore.com
visittheusa.co.uk (Note the t appears twice in the middle so don't type it, use this link.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
Quiz answers:
1 Budgerigar
2 Barn owl
3 Cuckoo
4 Nightingale
5 Dwarf penguin
6 Snowy owl
7 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
8 Emperor Penguin
9 Robin
10 Woodpecker
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Bird panel by the lake beside Hard Rock Cafe visited on an open top bus tour, which stops here, Bucharest, Romania. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
I took a picture of this bird panel by the lake outside Hard Rock Cafe in Bucharest, Romania. I wanted to learn the birds and find out whether they had the same birds as in London, England.
The common birds which I can name and recognize include (alphabetically) are below this lovely budgie picture:
Budgie photo from Wikipedia.
Budgerigar at Fort Worth Zoo, Texas, USA. For more details and copyright see Wikipedia under Budgerigar.
My ten birds:
budgerigar (Also called a budgie - or common parakeet!)
Canadian flying geese
duck
magpie
parrot
robin
seagull
swan
toucan
vulture
That's exactly ten in total.
I had thought of the budgie as pretty widespread as a pet, and ordinary, but a parakeet as more exotic and unusual. It turns out that a common or caged budgie is a little parakeet.
Look close and the colours are gorgeous, yellow head, green body, and wow, that expression! Look at the big, practical claws, with long 'fingers' and long nails, clasping the branch so it can balance on a curved surface.
I could name but not recognize:
albatross
cuckoo
dodo
dwarf penguin
emperor penguin
I can recognize a penguin, but only distinguish the big emperor and the cute little dwarf if they are standing side by side.
emu / ostrich
kiwi
nightingale
ostrich
rhea / ostrich
That's another ten. Altogether twenty. (I wrote a comic poem about a rhea. One escaped near a motorway in the UK and caused chaos.)
This is a lesser rhea, commonly known as a Darwin rhea.
From Wikipedia
Summary[edit]
| Description |
Français : Nandou de Darwin (Pterocnemia pennata)
|
| Date | 28 June 2008 |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Guérin Nicolas |
What have I forgotten? Loads more.
blackbird
chicken
eagle - huge
kia (We saw a kia in New Zealand at a ski resort. We were thrilled to see it and photograph it close up - until we realised it had not eaten our car windscreen wipers. Warning signs told you not to feed them and attract them.)
quail - (Quail often appears on the menu of upmarket restaurants in Britain. I feel mean eating them.)
stork - (We saw them on rooftops in Alsace, and later in Romania.)
tits, blue tits and loads more
turkey
pheasant - (You often see them parading in the UK in stately homes and large countryside hotels.)
woodpecker (You see them vertical on tree trunks, tapping away.)
OWLS
What about owls? This heart-shaped face owl is a barn owl.
|
English: A Barn Owl at British Wildlife Centre, Surrey, England.
Español =Una lechuza común en British Wildlife Center, Surrey, Inglaterra. | |
| Date | 23 July 2011, 16:03 |
| Source | 'Tutoke'* Uploaded by snowmanradio |
| Author | Peter Trimming from Croydon, England |
| This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. | |
|
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Here's the quiz:
1 Name a bird which is a pet and a member of the parakeet family.
2 Which kind of owl has a heart shape face?
3 Which bird pushes its egg into another bird's nest?
4 Which bird sings at night?
5 What is the small size penguin called?
6 Which owl was in the Harry Potter film?
7 What does RSPB stand for? (The last word is not Britain.)
8 What is the name of the large penguin?
9 Which red-breasted bird appears on British Xmas cards?
10 Which bird taps on the side of tree trunks?
Answers at end.
Useful Websites
BIRDS
RSPB (Royal Society For the Protection of Birds). Has newsletters, a website, online bookshop, features 170 nature reserves all over the UK to visit with panels and bird hides (not hiding the birds, hiding you from the birds), Xmas cards and more.
COUNTRIES
romaniatourism.com
visitbritain.org
visitbritain.com
visitbritain.shop
visitsingapore.com
visittheusa.co.uk (Note the t appears twice in the middle so don't type it, use this link.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
Quiz answers:
1 Budgerigar
2 Barn owl
3 Cuckoo
4 Nightingale
5 Dwarf penguin
6 Snowy owl
7 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
8 Emperor Penguin
9 Robin
10 Woodpecker
Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.
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