The final answer. Thank you all for your good wishes on this last quiz.  And great appreciation for all the guesses and answers, right and wrong, throughout these years. For me, writing good quizzes has meant working long hard hours, researching, emailing, reading field guides, conferring with master birders around the world.  After a few [...]

Hello all.  This will be my last Avian Quiz.  I am hanging up my computer? My binoculars?  Hard to tell.  I hope you’ve had as much fun with these quizzes as I have had.  Here is this week’s quiz: I was fortunate to visit a college friend these last few days.  I live in the [...]

Ah yes, the answer to this week’s quiz.  Here is what I remember about the quiz: the clues are all about birds, but the answer is not.  OK, got it.  Clues=birds.  Answer=not birds. I gave clues to the first four words in a sequence of words, your job was to get the next word in [...]

Today’s quiz is all about birds.  Every clue is about birds.  Birds, birds, birds. The answer, however, is not about birds. I give clues to 4 words, a phrase.  Your task is to figure out the next word in this sequence of words. 1st two words: Birdsong I am hearing now, near the end of [...]

This week’s Poop Quiz was answered in record time.  And I thought it was so diabolical.  One just never knows … Congratulations to Matt O’Donnell for his correct answer ! The clues and their answer: 1. Back in the 60’s, there was a TV commercial for Certs mints that went something like this, “It’s two, [...]

It’s Poop Week on 10,000 Birds so this quiz is definitely poop-related.  I am a happy soul. If you’ve read my quizzes before, you know better than to expect from me an easy quiz with clues like these: “What’s white and smelly and you’ve seen a million birds expel some and it’s dropped on your [...]

[[ Corey, I used to like you.  Really I did.  I liked you when you answered my quiz incorrectly.  Then I could feign some sort of false sense of superiority.  I could imagine that I outfoxed you.  Now what am I supposed to feel?  Here you are, one of the two blogmasters at 10,000 Birds, [...]

A most interesting question was posed to me by a birding friend.  I could not guess the answer despite some pretty good tries on my part. I open the question up to you. The email, received on May 7 at 6:15AM, reads verbatim: “RE: NEW YARD BIRD ‘This morning – flying with three of another [...]

This week’s quiz was the most diabolical quiz I have written and it was answered in no time at all.  Congratulations to Sarah T ! [I had a girlfriend named Sarah T. many years ago who was a birder.  Could it be?  No, it couldn’t be.] BAHAMA YELLOWTHROAT it is!  Sarah T – How did [...]

In honor of Wood Warbler Week here at 10,000 Birds, this quiz is about one specific warbler species.  I have chosen this species for today’s quiz because of an abundance of wonderful clues! Identify the species in question.  And here we go: – This species has a FACEBOOK PAGE!!!!!!  Really!  Exciting on one hand, and [...]

Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. From what I read, birds are the class of Aves [feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate animals].  Also, and this is pretty cool, there are extinct birds that have different characteristics [no wings, for example.  Who knew?]. No surprise: there have been debates about how [...]

This week’s quiz is all about what we don’t know.  Or that the internet will allow anyone to post anything no matter whether it is correct or not. While researching this quiz on the internet, I have seen many numbers claiming to be the correct number.  These numbers include 234, 204, 172, 225, 212, and [...]

This week’s quiz was global in nature, asking to identify endemic species of a country that needed to be guessed based on a number of clues. There were four people who correctly ID’ed endemic species in that country in short order.  Congratulations to Nick, Pat O’Donnell, Peter O and Clare.  The country in question is [...]

This week’s quiz is geographically GLOBAL in nature.  It is not limited to North America, as many of my other quizzes are. Your objective is to determine the correct country and then answer the questions shown at the bottom of the quiz. Good luck! Here are the clues: 1.    Some references indicate that this country [...]

Some travel and visits to the hospital have delayed this posting.  All is well now, and so here are the answers to last week’s quiz. QUIZ: The clues: -    Take a beverage produced by a large distributor. -    The beverage’s name is 10 letters long. -    You will see that the first 5 letters and [...]

To call this quiz “An Avian Quiz” is a bit of a stretch.  All disparaging comments should be forwarded to Corey or Mike.  All kudos should be sent to me! This week I mangle and analyze words.  Your job is to make some sense of it all.  On this quiz, you might want to work [...]

First off, congratulations to all who tried the quiz, and to Mike and Jason who got it right. Recapping the quiz … I recently purchased a new book on birds and used it as the single source for this week’s quiz.  The book is from 2005 called “Identify Yourself, The 50 Most Common Birding Identification [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, clues for these quizzes are taken from bird guides and other resources.  The single resource for today’s quiz is a book I just purchased.  It is not a new book, about 6 years old. Today we are looking at two species that can be difficult to separate under typical field conditions.  [...]

A difficult quiz, no doubt.  Harder than the last quiz. I thought that the clue I made up would give it away.  Alas!  “What is black and white and red all under?”  Clearly not the riddle of my youth “what is black and white and red (read) all over?”.  The answers in elementary school were [...]

Welcome to today’s quiz.  Same format as last quiz, where I give quotes verbatim from various field guides. This quiz has a twist … one clue.  I will add clues throughout the weekend, as needed, until someone has the correct answer. “Wings are entirely black, both above and below”. As always, unless otherwise noted, bird [...]