Birds

1. Quiz on Birds 2. Quiz on Cranes and Storks

3. Quiz on Gruiformes 4. Quiz on Pheasants

5. Quiz on Raptors

Quiz on Birds
1. Birds have no teeth. Where is their food broken up before being digested?
In the gizzard In the throat In the stomach

2. Which is the weakest sense of birds?

Taste Hearing Smell

3. Which of these birds has the largest wingspan?

Arctic Tern Lapwing Albatross

4. Which is the tallest Indian bird?

The Sarus Crane The Adjutant Stork The Barheaded Goose

5. Which is the only bird that can move both the upper and lower parts of its beaks?
Parrot Vulture Falcon

6. Which of these birds can travel the longest without flapping its wings?
Andean Condor The Black Vulture The Whisteling Hawk

7. The Flamingo has a very curiously inverted beak. What is it used for?
To peck the leg of To scoop the mud bottom and strain the minute food To act as a pouch for
intruders particles through uneaten fish

8. Which bird can rotate its head a 180 degrees on either side?
The Owl The Roller The Nightjar

9. What is the name of the earliest known bird?

Anapsida Archaeopteryx Sauropterygia

10. The African Honeyguide bird loves honeywax but it cannot break the honeybee hive. What does it do?
It pushes the branches of the tree till the It leads honey badgers It pecks at the exterior, worrying the bees till
hive falls and breaks to the hive they abondon the hive

Quiz on Cranes and Storks

1. The male and female of this species looks alike. The juvenile storks can be mistaken for openbilled storks
from a distance. These are, ……
Greater adjutant storks black necked storks Painted storks

2. The periodic movements of locust swarms cannot be referred to as migration because….

locusts are not the movement does not involve return to the starting the movement involves food
birds point. gathering

3. The measured martial gait as it paces up and down gave it its name. This stork is seen in North &
North.East India.
Adjutant stork Wooly necked stork Black necked stork

4. Of the following places, where are cranes not found at all?

Australia S.America Europe

5. Forty species of migratory birds feature in a film by Columbia Tristar released in March 2004 –The film is
Fly Away Home Follow the Leader Winged Migration

6. Of the 15 species of cranes, ……….are vulnerable to extinction.

5 11 2

7. Siberian cranes once nested in W.Siberia and wintered in India. The last documented Siberian crane in
India during winter was in the year……….
 1996 1998 2002

8. Sandhill and Whooping cranes call ………..…..their home

North America Japan North India

9. The Bishnoi community in Rajasthan feed and protect the Krishnakraunch. The Sanskrit name
“krishnakrauch” refers to
Demoiselle crane Siberian crane Sarus crane

10. This stork is quite common in S.India nesting on ficus trees, electric towers etc.
Blacknecked stork woolly necked stork Lesser Adjutant stork

Quiz on Gruiformes
1. These members of ‘gruiformes’ are small, secretive birds with rounded wings and short tails and the rear
toe on each foot missing. These are,
Partridges Spur fowls Button quails

2. The smallest of the cranes is

Whooping crane Demoiselle crane Japanese crane

3. These rails get quarrelsome during breeding season. Rival males clash over territory. These are,
Coots Crakes Water cocks

4. This crane spends the whole year in one locality

Sandhill crane Siberian crane Sarus crane

5. To court a female he, 1)extends his neck and wings 2) Bows deeply 3) Then approaches the female. Who
is he?
The Sarus crane The African dancing crane The Common crane

6. The birds grouped together as ‘gruiformes’

Tend to look similar Are seen in a particular geographical area Share certain anatomical features

7. Several of the world’s cranes are now endangered mainly due to

Drying up of rivers Global Warming Hunting and land drainage

8. `Gruiformes` are the diverse group of birds consisting of

Game Birds Cranes, Rails and Bustards Waders, Gulls and Auks

9. These long legged birds of the open plains are powerful runners. These are
Sarus cranes Black necked cranes Bustards

10. The purple moorhen ( family :rail) is a common site at

Santragachi, Calcutta Okhla Barrage, Delhi Sewri Bay, Mumbai

Quiz on Pheasants
1. Altogether five species of tragopans occur all over the world. Of these …….. are found in India
3 4 2

2. The Western tragopan`s habitat is destroyed due to

The Beas River project The Narmada River Project Parvati Hydel Project

3. This pheasant is hunted by man for its crest

peacock tragopan monal

4. These pheasants are observed close to human habitation.

white crested khaleej peafowl both the above

5. This pheasant is the state bird of Himachal Pradesh and the national bird of Nepal
tragopan koklas monal

6. All pheasants of the world originated in the ……...

Himalayas China Alps

7. Pheasants can…..
run very fast fly short distances Both the above

8. Pheasants are…………..
 water birds tree dwelling birds ground dwelling birds

9. Conservation breeding of Western tragopan is being attempted at

Sarahan ( H.P) Nainital ( Uttaranchal) Chail ( H.P)

10. The following pheasants are in the endangered list

chir pheasant tragopan both the above

Quiz on Raptors
1. Jatayu and Sampati, in the epic Ramayana, who helped rama when Sita was abducted by Ravana , were,
Vultures Eagles Hawks

2. A common hawk found in India, this raptor eats frogs, lizards, mice and squirrels. The male is ashy blue
grey and female is brown. Its size is a little bigger than a blue rock pigeon.
Shikra Common hawk cuckoo Ferrunginous hawk

3. This owl can be spotted in Bharatpur and Sultanpur Bird sanctuaries.

Great horned owl Barn owl Collared scoops owl

4. This globally threatened eagle is a winter visitor in the wetlands of Haryana

Imperial eagle Greater spotted eagle Tawny eagle

5. This falcon breeds in he Himalayas and NE India and is a look alike of the shikra
Eurasian sparrowhawk Osprey Changeable hawk-eagle

6. A study by Bombay Natural History Society found that the population of two common species of these
scavenging vultures have gone down by 90% over a decade.
Bearded vulture Asian white backed vulture Himalayan Griffon

7. Out of the 482 species of raptors worldwide ------------------are nocturnal

178 304 58

8. Though uncommon in the Konkan and Malabar area, the Crested Serpent Eagle can be spotted on trees in
the
Corbett National Park KedarNath Wildlife Sanctuary Kaziranga National Park

9. A raptor is a . ………………………..
has a hooked beak meat eating bird both the above are correct

10. Distributed in India in the Malabar and Konkan region, this raptor eats, among other things, honey, wax
and bee-larvae of the ferocious rock bees.
Western marsh harrier Oriental Honey-Buzzard White-eyed buzzard