Test your bird identification skills...

[Glow worm]

HERE

The site is a little clunky and cumbersome to load, but it's quite good once working. It's pretty hard - I rarely get over 5 or 6/10. But if you know your 'spotted redshank' from your run of the mill 'redshank', it's for you.

 

[Beebo]

I got 2/10.
It's very hard.

 

[hopless500]

3 for me. That is hard and I'm ok(ish) on birds generally.

 

[Fnaar]

5/10... I like to think my answers to Qs 4 and 5 weren't too wide of the mark though! I also knew the Jay wasn't a jay, but didn't know what it was, and I also knew the avocet wasn't an avocet, but took a punt on it being different plumage or summat.
I knew that all those years of keeping a Collins Guide to British Birds in the lavvie would be useful one day!!!!

 

[swee'pea99]

"Ferruginous duck"?

 

[hopless500]

3 again the 2nd time round, but should have been 4. Thought they were going to be clever with the woodpecker, so I went for a lesser spotted....

 

[Archie_tect]

Took me until Q3 to realise it was a drop down list....

 

[Glow worm]

5/10... I like to think my answers to Qs 4 and 5 weren't too wide of the mark though!


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We'll give you those - close enough ! It's when I put chiffchaff and it turns out to be an Iberian chiffchaff instead that makes me want punch the screen.

Good score 5. The 300 types of identical looking gulls don't help!

 

[rich p]

4 - not easy and I had some goose chicks which just looked soooo cute.

 

[nappadang]

I got 7 and should have got 8 but stupildly clicked chaffinch when I meant chiffchaff. TBF, the photo of the Chiffchaff could easily have been a Willow Warbler, as the legs weren't visible.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I haven't tried the quiz because, frankly, I'll be rubbish at it. However, it has reminded me of my favourite stupid answer on the quiz show Family Fortunes:

Presenter: Name a bird with a long neck.
Contestant: Naomi Campbell


GC

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Ok, I tried it and got 2/10. That was only because even a muppet can identify a starling and a swan...

GC

 

[nickyboy]

9/10...and it should have been 10 but I put Ring Necked Parakeet instead of Ring-Necked Parakeet.......grrrrr

 

[pauldavid]

Highly disappointing, not a single piccie of Cheryl Cole in her kecks. She's a proper british bird!

 

[annedonnelly]

I like this quiz better - it's not so clunky to use and you're given a choice of birds