Famous Birds
Hoots the Owl is a jazzy saxophone-playing bird on what kids' TV show?
What is Sesame Street?
At 2.4 inches long and weighing about 2 g, zunzuncitos are the smallest birds on the planet. They are a member of which family of birds, the only ones that are able to fly backwards?
What is a hummingbird?
This is the fastest bird – It dives at speeds over 200 miles per hour
What is the peregrine falcon?
What’s the fruity name of a flightless bird that lives in New Zealand?
What is the Kiwi?
These birds turn pink from eating shrimp and algae.
What is a flamingo?
Blu is a brilliantly colored Spix's Macaw who doesn't know how to fly because he's been raised in a cage in Minnesota, in what 2011 animated movie?
What is the Rio?
A group of which black birds are kept captive at the Tower of London? According to superstition, the disappearance of these birds from the Tower will result in the fall of the Crown.
What is a Raven?
This bird has the largest wingspan – It can reach over 11 feet across.
What is the Albatross?
Which species of bird, found in Australia, is the second-largest living bird by height after the ostrich?
What is the Emu?
This bird is found only around in the southern hemisphere, mainly near Antarctica.
What are penguins?
What Disney princess sings the song "Oh, Sing Sweet Nightingale" while she's scrubbing floors for her stepmother and stepsisters?
Who is Cinderella?
Technically North America's most common species in the Columbidae family, this bird was named for the sad cooing notes it makes. What is the name of this bird that sounds like it should be attending a funeral 24/7?
What is the Mourning Dove?
If they were allowed to compete at the Olympics, they would win the 100m in under 7 seconds!
What is the Ostrich?
What is the branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds?
What is Ornithology?
The Ameraucana and Araucana breeds of which barnyard bird lay blue eggs?
What are chickens?
What species of ducks go on their first migration together in the movie, "Migration"?
What are Mallards?
These species of birds can turn their heads up to 270 degrees
What are owls?
Which bright-red bird is the mascot for the University of Louisville’s NCAA sports teams?
What are Cardinals?
The stage in a young bird's life between hatching and leaving the nest goes by what? (AKA Learning to fly)
What is a fledgling?
What tube-like organ makes up one to five percent of an owl's body weight, depending on species?
What are eyes?
A companion of headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter novels, Fawkes was what type of legendary bird?
What is a Pheonix?
According to Japanese legends, folding one thousand origami versions of what bird will grant an individual a wish from the gods?
What is a Crane?
This bird holds the record as the deepest-diving bird, capable of reaching depths of up to 1,800 feet
What is the Emperor Penguin?
Birds are originally descended from which vertebrate class?
What are reptiles?
Although owls aren't the only zygodactyl birds, they are the only ones that can pivot the body part that zygodactyl describes. What is this body part?
What are toes?