Birds Quiz
Try out this Birds quiz to test your knowledge. Birds trivia explores a group of animals whose origins trace back to theropod dinosaurs and whose species now inhabit every continent on Earth.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
480 pts max score
Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts
Which bird is specifically noted for both scavenging and hunting, making it notable for using two very different feeding strategies?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
A bird strongly linked with the cloud forests of Central America is the what?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
Which bird feeds by flying low and letting its elongated lower bill slice along the water surface?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Which birds have such short legs that they are awkward on flat ground?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Which powerful raptor is known for taking sizable arboreal prey such as sloths and monkeys?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Who is often called the father of American ornithology?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
Which modern guide-maker is especially known for bird identification guides?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Birds moving between breeding and wintering areas are said to travel along major what?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Birds are descendants of which group of dinosaurs?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Which cone-specialist uses crossed bill tips to pry open conifer cones?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
Which bird is famous for caching large numbers of pine seeds and later recovering many of them?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
What do birds have covering their bodies?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
What kind of feet do ducks commonly have?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Who wrote the ballet "The Firebird"?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Who wrote the fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling"?