I want to win an IPod…

By Charlie • June 30, 2008 • 3 comments

That’s too bad for me, because I can’t - but for the next twelve hours YOU still can win an iPod in the last half-day of our GREAT “Smithsonian Field Guide” give-away competition (thanks again to our generous chums at HarperCollins). How?

Work out the URLs that have made up the answers to the “GREAT give-way” questions over the last ten days (they’re all still archived on 10,000 Birds if you’ve not been keeping track), go to each page and collect the first letter of each post - NB NOT the title but the actual post - you find (eg if a URL led you to this page the letter you’d collect would be “O” from “Our GREAT give-away has trundled on…”).
After you’ve collected all ten letters re-arrange them to find the name of a species of North American bird. Email me the TEN URLs and the name of the bird, I’ll save all the emails, and the jammy finger will once again make an impartial stab at my lap-top screen.

Closing date for entries is midnight tonight (as long as the email you send me is dated 30th June that’s ‘midnight tonight’ wherever you live), and the winner will be chosen and announced tomorrow.

We had hundreds of entries for the books, but not so many for the iPod yet, so there’s still a reasonable chance that YOU could be the winner! What are you waiting for, my friends, mail me now…

Tags: competiton, quiz

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Charlie

Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

3 Responses to “I want to win an IPod…”

mon@rch Jun 27th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Wow, you really make your viewers work hard to come up with the answer!
Charlie Jun 28th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Is that a good or a bad thing? You know, N8 worked out the answer by the eighth letter despite my attempt to find a bird with letters common to as many other ten-letter birds as possible - so it can be done! Cheers.
N8 Jun 30th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Well, I do like word games…

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