I really enjoyed playing with this quiz. As a beginner I am
staggered that anyone can get 20 of these, let alone more. How for
example, can you separate those two parrots 9&10 from each other or
other parrots? Or pick the friarbird fledglings? Or the
peaceful dove from another dove? Or even the silver gull that still
doesn't look like a gull to me even when I know the answer. What's
the strange protrusion from his head? No 23 (superb parrot) looks
like any bird with a long tail to me. I have hundreds of
photographs of superbs taken during the last invasion and I still don't
see the uniqueness of its rear-end! As for the less common
birds, I had absolutely no idea and am even more impressed.
Now that I look at my book I see that the head shape of the great
cormorant is truly a bit different from the little black (not counting
the crest that doesn't really appear in this shot), so just a few year's
practice might give me 50% in these quizzes.
For the record (my record that is, so hopefully I can look back and
wonder at why I found it so difficult) I got the easy ... er ...ahem
...*very low voice* ...7.
Thanks Geoffrey, great practice.
Julian
At 08:23 AM 27/06/06, you wrote:
Quickies -
1
David -
you?re right. You got 22
2
Right again
- I transposed answers 14 & 15
3
Ian, I expect the
details of Mat?s participation in the World Cup in South Africa and the
composition of the remainder of the team to be the subject of
consultations involving FIFA, SBS, Fox Sports and COG
The answers are:
1
Peaceful Dove (uncommon
r/v)
2
Dusky Woodswallow
3
Olive-backed Oriole
4
Eastern Spinebill
5
Blue-faced Honeyeater
(very uncommon visitor)
6
Willie Wagtail
7
A Magpie
8
L Kookaburra
9
Eastern Rosella
10
Red-rumped Parrot
11
N Friarbird
(fledglings)
12
Darter
13
Gang-gang
14
P Currawong
15
Crested Pigeon
15A Latham?s Snipe
16
Rainbow Bee-eater
17
Little Friarbird
(uncommon r/v)
18
Grey Teal
18A B-fronted Dotterel
19
Red Wattlebird
20
Spotted Turtledove
(uncommon introduction)
21
Great Cormorant
22
Brown Falcon
23
Superb Parrot
24
Silver Gull
25
Y-t Black-Cockatoo
With the admitted ?shading? assistance, Steve got 21 - as did
David Cook. However the best effort was by Mat Gilfedder, who came
in with an extraordinary 24, whether with any image-manipulation or not I
cannot say, but a fine performance in any event. The most
troublesome image was the Wille Wagtail No 6, the subject of a variety of
stabs. Only Philip Veerman got this.
Regards
Julian
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