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Mini-quiz answers

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Subject: Mini-quiz answers
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:43:09 +1000

Good to see so many committing themselves.  Most got at least 5 and the following got all 6:

 

Mark Clayton, Steve Holliday, Damien Farine, Anthony Overs

 

All got the P Owl (yawning, Mark, not belching).  The Magpie-goose was discussed in 2005 with respect to whether the numbers reappearing at Tidbinbilla could have included any non-captive birds.  The most troublesome were 3 and 4, the Swift Parrot having that long upper mandible, a bit like a Neophema parrot, and the male breeding Freckled Duck having the basal half of its bill a surprising pink, thus:

 

2 hds_1777.jpg 

 

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