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This will be the last Jory-written quiz for awhile while he and his family recover from a horrendous flood that destroyed the interior of their home.  Hopefully, the legions of fans he has accumulated while serving as the 10,000 Birds’ Quizmaster will be patient and keep visiting, and, once he is ready to write some [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster, who is being a bit lazy this week…
Turn the table on the quizmaster.  This week’s quiz is short.

Make up a quiz question and post it in the comments.
If you see a quiz question you want [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.
Boy oh boy, what a quiz.  As soon as I sent it to Corey for processing (thanks Corey!), out comes an email from the CayugaBirds listserv with the same exact question.  I guess Cayugans read the [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.
Sometimes you learn some avian trivia from non-birders.  The information on this week’s quiz comes from my wife Hope, who is a non-birder.  She pointed out this term to me while she was reading Sunday’s NY [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.
On a personal note, this year I’m conducting a “Little Year”.  No snickering please.  I consider it a hybrid, half Big Year (seeing as many species as possible) and half small carbon footprint (local to Region [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.
Brrrr.  It’s cold out there.  It’s winter in North America now, no time for long quizzes, no lounging around in the park or on your back porch.  It just cold and time to be quick about [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  Though, to be honest, after this quiz we aren’t sure how much longer he will be the quizmaster (we think he might have lost it, though we do appreciate the sentiments in the first paragraph [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  This quiz will not have an answer post, because, well, it really doesn’t need one. And if you don’t know what bird Jory is describing here, well, go back through the last week of posts [...]

The answers to the Just For Avian ID Quiz #10 are, as always, provided by 10,000 Birds’ own Avian Quizmaster, Jory Langner.
It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s “Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #10″.
The quiz name should have been “Coolest Quiz Yet”.  It has the most startling information I’ve encountered [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  And don’t expect help from the rest of us at 10,000 Birds on this quiz: we are surely as confused as you!
This quiz is quite different and is fully obfuscated.  I’d suggest relaxing, getting a [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.
It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s “Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9″.
Congratulations to all who attempted and answered this quiz.  It seems that everyone had the correct species in mind.  [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  Jory had a heck of a Thanksgiving and we think the turkey is still having some effect on him…
Rules are the usual, regularly occurring birds in the ABA area (Code 1-3), the question to be [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.
Wednesday we started this week’s quiz by publishing a single clue. We said it was possible to guess the identity of the answer with that single clue.  Congratulations to Jason who had the correct answer (and thanks to [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  This week’s quiz is short and sweet though more clues will be added if it turns out no one can figure it out…we 10,000 Birds bloggers are confident that our readership can “get it in [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. Jory has come up with an entertaining quiz that lets those who spend waaaay too much time looking at field guides a chance to shine.
The rules are completely different this time.  There is no need [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster, who assures we 10,000 Birds bloggers that he was not out in the sun too much and did not experiment with peyote prior to making this week’s quiz…and I guess we have no choice but [...]

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster.  A word of warning before you scroll down and try this quiz: Jory is just back from the southwestern United States and it seems like he caught some excess sun (that, or maybe he was [...]

It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to last Wednesday’s “A Doozy of a Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz“.
This last quiz was a bit different from previous quizzes.  I hope you enjoyed it.
First of all, thanks and congratulations to the following folks who either answered correctly or agreed with those that did: Rob, Mike [...]

Once again Jory has agreed to provide 10,000 Birds readers with an identification quiz.  This one is different from his typical quiz: as a specific bird is not being identified and word play is involved instead of field marks and bird behavior.  Good luck (you’re going to need it!) and remember to post your guesses [...]

It’s Saturday.  That means it’s time for the answer to Wednesday’s “Just For Fun Avian Quiz“.
Here are the clues again…
Five things you probably didn’t know about this species:
* Many thousands pass through the James Bay area Canada in late summer.
* May migrate up to 5,000 miles non-stop (that’s longer than most commercial flights ).
* Surprisingly, [...]