Quiz conducted at National College Jayanagar on the 2019 Bangalore Bird Day (see http://www.http://birdday.in). Quiz by Prashanth N S (http://www.daktre.com) & L Shyamal (http://www.muscicapa.blogspot.com) Finals slides here: https://www.slideshare.net/PrashanthSrinivas/bird-brain-open-bird-quiz-finals-by-prashanth-shyamal-bangalore-bird-day-2019

1. Quizmasters
Prashanth N S (daktre.com)
&
L Shyamal (muscicapa.blogspot.com)

3. istampgallery.com

4. Identify the family of to which
this bird belongs to?

5. Kingfisher

6. Identify this bird

7. Raju Kasambe/Wikimedia Commons
Asian Openbill

8. What is this?

9. Archaeopteryx
Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons

10. Before bird migration became an established fact, there was a
popular belief to explain the disappearance of swallows in winter
in Europe. What was it?

11. Swdish pastor/naturalist Olaus Magnus descriptions as shown by Richard
Armstrong, University of Houston (Engines of Ingenuity radio series No. 2228:
ANCIENT EXPLANATIONS OF BIRD MIGRATION on uh.edu)

12. The state bird of Karnataka is….

13. Shantanu Kuveskar/Wikimedia Commons

14. Which village in Karnataka is known and named for the nesting
colonies of painted storks and spot-billed pelican?

15. Koshy K/Wikimedia Commons
Google Maps

16. Which bird is this?
Johan Roeland/Xenocanto

17. Crested Serpent Eagle (melanotis ssp) at
Bandipur National Park
Yathin S Krishnappa/Wikimedia Commons
Crested serpent eagle

18. This is the dedication page of from an autobiography. Whose?

19. “This year, 2012, marks the centenary of OUP
in India. In the history of the press, two men
stand out: one white, the other brown. In 1930
an Oxford graduate named R. E. Hawkins came
to teach in a school in Delhi. The school closed
down during the non-co-operation
movement, so Hawkins found a job with the
OUP in Bombay instead. In 1937 he was
appointed General Manager. By now he wore
khadi…”

20. Salim Ali co-authored the 10 volume landmark Handbook of
the Birds of India and Pakistan. Who was his co-author?

21. 1976, creator unknown
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sidney Dillon
Ripley, 8th
Secretary of the
Smithsonian
Institution

22. Which Indian island bird of economic importance is known to
echolocate?

23. Edible nest swiftlet

24. What is the modern name of this Madrass Sea Crow?
John Ray, 1713

25. Indian skimmer
The bill is thin and knife-like to reduce resistance to water
David Raju/Wikimedia Commons
Hugh Whistler’s handbook illustration

26. Identify the bird from its famous
egg collected near Kolar

27. Jerdon’s Courser
John Gerrard Keulemans

28. “They intrigue in every way to get rid of me; accuse me of being an
Ornithologist, and that the society did not want an ornithologist...I could
astonish you by various statements of what I have to put up with but
forbear.”
Which ornithologist who worked extensively in India said this?

29. Curator of zoology at the Museum of
the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta
Father of Indian ornithology (Hume)
Letters to Darwin highlighting
Wallace’s work

30. There are two currently valid bird genera that are derived from names used
in the Indian region: one is from Nepal and another from Andhra Pradesh /
Telangana. Name either one.

31. HBW Pittas plate John Gould Birds of Asia

32. In the scientific name of this
bird, the specific epithet
means “surgeon” (Greek:
χειρουργός) and was given
because the outermost
primary feathers have
extensions that apparently
reminded the species
describer of surgeon’s
scalpels.
What bird are we talking
about?

33. “… Pierre Sonnerat in his
1776 Voyage à la Nouvelle
Guinée in which he included
an illustration of the bird that
he called "Le Chirurgien de
l'Isle de Luzon" or the
surgeon of the island of
Luzon. He described the bird
with the long toes, the
elongated feather extensions
resembling a surgeon's
scalpel.”
Hydrophasianus chirurgus

34. The author of this book, Charles Brooke
Worth (1908-1984), American virologist,
reported a species of bird from Ulsoor tank
that is today quite rare in the Bangalore
region. It is a bird known for tool use. What
bird was it?

35. Nickhassanali/Youtube

36. Richard Bowdler Sharpe played
a prank on Eugene Oates who
was working on the Fauna of
British India in the British
Museum. While Oates was
away, Sharpe added at the end
of Oates’ notebook to an
incomplete sentence - “The note
of this species is “ - and wrote
“a prolonged Pooh” - This went
into the published book and
Oates never pardoned Sharpe
for it. What bird was it?

37. L Shyamal/Wikimedia Commons

38. Name the ornithologist from
Karnataka in this picture?

39. Syed Abdullah Husain

40. The first bird song recorded in the world was made on an Edison Wax cylinder was
made in 1889.
The recording was of a captive Indian bird known for its song. Which one?

41. The recording of animal sounds
stretches back over 115 years,
beginning in 1889 with the recording
on an Edison wax cylinder by Ludwig
Koch (at age 8 at the time) in Germany
of his pet captive Indian
Shama Copsychus malabaricus.
Wildlife Sound Recording Society

42. FINALS
• 6 teams
• 5 rounds
• Round-robin 4
• WorldBirds
• Indiabirds
• Going local
• Birds BnB
• Roadrunner
• Be-a-condor
• Bowerboard
• Ear-watching birds