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The flight of this bird is fast, direct and usually low over water. A firm favourite.

British Birds - Miscellaneous 01

Birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. See if you can recognise the following ten birds in the first of our Miscellaneous quizzes.

1 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Mike Baird

Common Kingfisher

European Nightjar

Sooty Shearwater

Ring-necked Parakeet

Group: Shearwaters and Petrels
Binomial: Puffinus griseus
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Status: Passage Migrant
It makes a huge clockwise migration up the western Atlantic in spring to spend the northern summer there.
Then in summer/autumn it moves down into UK waters on its return to the southern ocean to breed.

2 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Mike Baird

Ring-necked Parakeet

Stock Dove

Common Kingfisher

Grey Phalarope

Group: Sandpipers and allies
Binomial: Phalaropus fulicaria
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Status: Scarce Winter Visitor
Once the females lay their olive-brown eggs, they begin their southward migration, leaving the males to incubate the eggs and care for the young.
The young mainly feed themselves and are able to fly within 18 days of birth.

3 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Steve Garvie

Whitethroat

Sooty Shearwater

Wren

Stock Dove

Group: Old World Warblers
Binomial: Sylvia communis
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
The song is fast and scratchy, with a scolding tone.
This is a bird of open country and cultivation, with bushes for nesting.
The nest is built in low shrub or brambles and 3-7 eggs are laid.

4 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of J M Garg

Sooty Shearwater

Ring-necked Parakeet

Common Kingfisher

Stone Curlew

Group: Kingfishers
Binomial: Alcedo atthis
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Status: Resident Breeding Species
The flight is fast, direct and usually low over water.
The short rounded wings whirr rapidly.
It has no song.
The flight call is a short sharp whistle, 'chee', repeated two or three times.

5 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Ecologyweb

Ring-necked Parakeet

Sooty Shearwater

Common Kingfisher

European Nightjar

Group: Nightjars
Binomial: Caprimulgus europaeus
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Caprimulgidae
Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
A nocturnal bird and can be seen hawking for food at dusk and dawn.
They have an almost supernatural reputation with their silent flight and their mythical ability to steal milk from goats.

6 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Birdman 1

Grey Phalarope

Stone Curlew

Sooty Shearwater

Little Egret

Group: Bitterns, Herons and Egrets
Binomial: Egretta garzetta
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ardeidae
Status: Resident Breeding Species And Passage Migrant
These birds are mostly silent but make various croaking and bubbling calls at their breeding colonies.
They are listed in the coronation feast of King Henry VI in 1429.

7 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of J M Garg

Ring-necked Parakeet

Little Egret

Stone Curlew

Stock Dove

Group: Parrots
Binomial: Psittacula krameri
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Status: Resident Introduced Population
Often found in flocks, numbering hundreds at a roost site, it can be very noisy.
Found mainly in south-east England, particularly Surrey, Kent and Sussex.
Eats fruit, berries, nuts and seeds.

8 .

What is the name of this bird?

Photograph courtesy of Chris Cant

Whitethroat

European Nightjar

Stock Dove

Little Egret

Group: Pigeons and Doves
Binomial: Columba oenas
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Status: Resident Breeding Species
It perches well, and in nuptial display walks along a horizontal branch with swelled neck, lowered wings, and fanned tail.
During the circling spring flight the wings are smartly cracked like a whip.

9 .

What is the name of this bird?