Quiz for Bird Day “Birds are our feathered friends”
if anyone wants to feast on her chicks, she skillfully imitates a snake - she stretches her neck and hisses. It is for such masterly control of her neck that she got her name. Which? (Wryneck)
12. Which bird got its name from its large crop, which increases the size of its throat? (Dove)
13. The finch is not at all afraid of the cold; it flies in early spring, when there is snow on the fields, and flies away in late autumn. Why was he nicknamed the finch? (He flies and arrives in cold, “chilly” times)
14. The beak of this bird is bent crosswise, it seems to be compressed, squeezed. This bird got its name from the shape of its instrument-like beak. Which? (Klest. The Russian word “klest” meant “to squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.” The word “pincers” came from this verb)
15. This bird’s beak is huge, like a net. Horseflies, flies, mosquitoes, which so disturb livestock, will not escape this trap. So this bird flies to where there is a lot of livestock and feasts on insects. And people thought that she was flying in to milk the cattle, so they called her... What? (Nightjar)
16. The name of which wading bird comes from an ancient Russian verb meaning “to move slowly”? (“Heron” from the verb “chap” - walk slowly)
17. Which bird’s name indicates that it trembles with one part of its body? (Wagtail)
18. What family of birds does the peacock belong to? (To the chicken family)
19. What bird can swim better than fly and run? (Penguin)
20. Which sacred bird, according to ancient legend, could be reborn from the ashes, why did it become a symbol of immortality? (Phoenix)
21. Which parrot has a crest? (At the cockatoo)
22. What birds’ arrival do we consider the beginning of spring? (Arrival of rooks)
23. Which songbird gets its food by diving into the water under the ice? (Dipper)
24. What bird breeds chicks at any time of the year, even in the snow? (Crossbill. Crossbills feed their chicks with pine and spruce seeds)
25. What birds spend the night buried in the snow? (Grouse, partridge, hazel grouse)
26. Which bird has eyes moved to the back of its head and why? (In the woodcock, because it gets its food by sticking its beak deep into the ground)
27. What flying nocturnal predator appears in our country only in winter? (Polar white owl)
28. What bird makes a nest out of fish bones? (Kingfisher)
29. Which forest bird is white in winter and piebald in summer? (Ptarmigan)
30. Which birds are the smallest in our country? (Roadroot (wren) and wren. They are almost the same height: smaller than the rocker dragonfly)
31. Which of our forest birds have yellow males and green females? (At the crossbills)
32. Which bird screams like a torn cat? (Oriole)
33. Which bird “barks”? (A male ptarmigan makes a sound similar to a dog barking during the spring in the spring)
34. Name the pink bird that the song says is “the child of the sunset.” (Pink flamingo)
35. Hairy caterpillars are covered with poisonous bristles, and birds avoid touching them. These caterpillars can cause pain even to humans if they get on the skin, eyes, mouth or nose. And only one bird eats them with pleasure without harmful consequences. What kind of bird is this? (Cuckoo)
36. Australian radio begins its broadcasts with very unusual call signs, borrowed from the world of wildlife. Every morning the voice of the kookaburra (or kookaburra) bird is heard on the radio. What is unusual about the calls of this bird? (She laughs loudly and contagiously. This sound is intended to give all waking people a good mood for the whole working day)
37. Which bird is a symbol of pedagogy? (Pelican. It has been observed that in times of hunger, pelicans can selflessly peck meat from their bodies to feed their chicks)
38. Which bird in Rus' symbolizes marital fidelity? (Swan. Since a pair of swans, having met once, live together all their lives)
39. Which bird “guards the family hearth”, serves as a symbol of family well-being and ensures that the family has more offspring? (Stork)
40. What birds mutter in the spring: “I’ll buy a robe, sell a fur coat,” and in the fall: “I’ll sell a robe, buy a fur coat”? (Male black grouse (kosachs). These words were chosen in imitation of the spring and autumn muttering of kosachs)
41. When they say about a bird: “It flew overseas to die”? (When the hunter “misses” her)
42. Which bird can kill a person with a kick? (Ostrich)
43. Which bird has the longest legs and the longest neck? (A flamingo. It flies, stretched out like an arrow)
44. What are the most birds on the globe? (In first place in number is the order of gallinaceae. In second place are passerines)
45. Which birds walk most of the way from the south? (Crake, marsh hen)
46. What is a “woodpecker forge”? (This is the name of a tree into the crack of which a woodpecker puts cones in order to process them with its beak. On the ground under such a “smithy” a whole mountain of torn cones often accumulates)
47. Which bird gets its name from the island on which it lives? (Canary from the Canary Islands)
48. The ancient Indians called this bird parapushta, which means “fed by another.” What do we call this bird? (Cuckoo)
49. What bird do Americans not go through every Thanksgiving without? (No turkey)
50. Which bird from the raven family can imitate the voices of other birds? (Jay)
51. This bird became known after the discovery of America, and it is called after an Asian country. What kind of bird is this? (Turkey, turkey)
52. What birds, according to legend, saved the city of Rome? (Geese)
53. What are the names of American ostriches? (Nandu) What about African ones? (Emu)
54. Why did the raven fall into the category of the wicked, according to Christian doctrine? (The Bible says that after the end of the rain, Noah’s ark stopped at Mount Ararat. Noah was the first to release a raven from the ark so that it would fly around the surroundings and find out if there were places where the water had come down. But the raven flew away and did not return, as it was busy searching for corpses)
55. What second bird did Noah send from the ark to scout? (A dove. He returned with an oil branch in his beak and was ranked among the sacred birds)
56. What birds, according to legend, fed the Babylonian queen Semiramis? (When Semiramis's mother, the goddess Derketo, refused to raise the girl, she was fed by pigeons, stealing milk from the shepherds)
57. Which artist made the Dove of Peace drawing in 1947? (Pablo Picasso)
58. What song about what bird did Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his comrades sing in the famous movie? (“Black raven, black raven, why are you hovering over me? You won’t get any prey. Black raven, I’m not yours...”)
59. Who cuckoos the cuckoos: male or female? (Only the male cuckoos)
60. Tradition says that the famous statesman, archon, strategist and commander Themistocles during the war proposed to include bird fighting in the combat training program of young Athenians. Which ones? (Cockfights so that warriors learn from them dedication, perseverance and courage)
61. Which European country bore the rooster name for a long time? (France was formerly called Gaul from the Latin word "gall" - rooster)
62. What birds were mercilessly exterminated in China in 1959 as crop destroyers? (Sparrows. When these birds were exterminated, locusts came and ate the entire harvest)
63. What birds do the Chinese specially train to capture fish with their beaks and bring them to their owner? (Baklanov)
64. Why doesn’t a trained cormorant swallow the fish it catches? (They put a special leash around their throat, which prevents them from doing this)
