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This bird is named for the bright red robes worn by officials of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Northern Cardinal?
This rainforest is home to Harpy Eagles, Hoatzins, tapirs, and jaguars.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This type of bird famously sits in a pear tree in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.
What is a partridge?
A group of these birds is known as a gaggle.
What are geese?
This bird species, which can be seen flying around Annenberg if you're lucky, is the fastest animal in the world.
What is Peregrine Falcon?
The scientific names of most species (bird or otherwise) come primarily from these two languages. Name both.
What are Greek and Latin?
This is the largest forest and continuous terrestrial biome on Earth, and is the namesake for a species of owl and chickadee.
What is the boreal forest (taiga)?
This man suggested that the Wild Turkey should be the national bird of the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A group of these birds is called a murder.
What is crow?
This species has the longest wingspan of any bird.
What is Wandering Albatross?
The genus name of this bird is from a Greek myth that said they used to calm water to be able to nest on it.
What is Halcyon (or kingfishers)?
Alaska's Pacific archipelago, home to famous birding destination Attu Island.
What are the Aleutian Islands?
This invasive species was brought to North America, supposedly because someone wanted to introduce all of the birds mentioned in Shakespeare.
What is European Starling?
This is the name for a group of flamingos.
What is a flamboyance?
This is the heaviest flying bird species.
What is Kori Bustard?
Both the genus and species name of the Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) refer to its ability to do this.
What is mimicry?
This continent is where passerines (songbirds) are thought to have first evolved.
What is Australia?
Movie producers often mistakenly use the call of this species for the Bald Eagle.
What is Red-tailed Hawk?
This is the name for a group of owls.
What is a parliament?
This sea bird throws up stomach fluid as a defense mechanism.
What is Northern Fulmar?
The smallest inclusive phylogenetic clade ancestral to both humans and birds.
What is Amniota (amniotes)?
This National Park and Monument in California's Salinas Valley, complete with unique rock formations and caves, is considered the best place in the world to see the condors named for the same state.
What is the Pinnacles?
This is the main character's species from the movie Rio.
What is Spix's Macaw?
A group of male manakins, prairie-chickens, or other species with social courtship behaviors displaying together is known as this.
What is a lek?
This type of bird often has a "nail" at the tips of its long tongue, which wraps around its brain, in order to stab insects.
What is woodpecker?