Time for Dinner
Size Matters
Rock-a-bye Baby
Going, Going, Gone
Sing a Little Song
100
This group of birds that shares a name with a dinosaur is known for being carnivorous.
What are raptors?
100
This is the largest owl species found in North Carolina.
What is the great horned owl?
100
This bird is notorious for laying its eggs in another bird's nest to trick them into raising its chicks.
What is the cuckoo (or cowbird)?
100
This flightless bird famously went extinct in the late 1600s due to it not fearing humans.
What is the dodo?
100
Despite the name, not all songbirds can do this.
What is singing?
200
It is better to feed ducks frozen peas, oats, or cut grapes instead of this starchy sandwich staple.
What is bread?
200
Weighing between 6 and 14 pounds, Humboldt penguins weigh the same as this national symbol.
What is the bald eagle?
200
This king penguin chick earned internet fame in 2024 due to his unusually large size.
Who is Pesto?
200
The last 27 members of this west coast raptor were rounded up by the LA Zoo and San Diego Zoo to start a breeding program in human care, which ultimately saved the species from extinction.
What is the California condor?
200
This is the largest songbird in North America.
What is the raven?
300
These small birds are famous for their beaks being adapted for the specific food they eat of each of the Galapagos islands.
What are Darwin's finches?
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300
This Cuban native is the smallest bird species in the world.
What is the bee hummingbird?
300
This large bird is probably the best single dad in the animal kingdom because he incubates the eggs, defends the nest, and raises the chicks for two years by himself.
What is an emu?
300
This critically endangered macaw species starred in the animated movie "Rio" which was loosely inspired by how the species was saved from extinction.
What is the Spix's macaw (aka the little blue macaw)?
300
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society launched this annual community science project in 1998 to collect data on wild birds in real time.
What is the Great Backyard Bird Count?
400
This fishing bird has been observed using floating bait to catch its food.
What is the heron?
400
This fuzzy flightless cousin to ostriches is the smallest member of the ratite family.
What is a kiwi?
400
This is the only bird to feed its chicks milk.
What is a pigeon?
400
This large vulnerable bird became popular online due to how docile it is with humans in zoos and its resemblance to an angry muppet.
What is the shoebill stork?
400
This is the number of songbird species (Passeriformes) found worldwide, making up nearly half of ALL bird species.
What is 4,000?
500
This tall African bird has a menacing appearance and enjoys eating decaying carcasses, earning it the nickname "the undertaker bird".
What is the marabou stork?
500
This 10-foot tall 1,000 pound now extinct bird was the largest bird to ever live on our planet.
What is the elephant bird?
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500
This species was put in the spotlight thanks to Wisdom, the oldest mother bird in the world who is roughly 73 years old and has raised more than 30 chicks.
What is the Laysan albatross?
500
This species once has a population of more than 3 billion in the 19th century, but the last of its kind, named Martha, died on September 1, 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo.
What is the passenger pigeon?
500
This organ, also called the song box, in a bird's chest is what allows them to produce sound.
What is the syrinx?
