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Year: 2016
Project name: Saving Africa’s Important Bird/Biodiversity Areas in Africa
Birds that benefit: Brown Mesite Mesitornis unicolor, Madagascar Blue-pigeon Alectroenas madagascariensis, Red-fronted Coua Coua reynaudii
Amount raised: £350,000 Forest loss is a severe problem across the African continent, and one that is hugely detrimental to birds, as more than two-thirds of species can be found in forests. In order to protect these crucial habitats, the 2016 Birdfair project focused on Tsitongambarika Forest. The area features many endemic species, which makes it biologically extraordinary, even by Madagascar’s lofty standards.
Year: 2017
Project name: Saving Paradise in the Pacific
Birds that benefit: Rapa Fruit-dove Ptilinopus huttoni, Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli Polynesian Storm Petrel Nesofregetta fuliginosa
Amount raised: 333,000 On the French Polynesian island of Rapa Iti, invasive non-native species are decimating populations of native birds. Money from Birdfair will help BirdLife to remove invasive species in order to restore the islands to their former glory.
Year: 2018
Project name: A Haven for Argentina’s Flamingos
Birds that benefit: Andean Flamingo Phoenicoparrus andinus, Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis, Puna Flamingo Phoenicoparrus jamesi
Amount raised: TBC This year, we’re turning Birdfair pink – to celebrate plans to create what will become Argentina’s largest National Park, and a safe haven for over a million waterbirds, including three species of flamingos.
2004 A
Martin Collinson – British Birds
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1 Name a bird named after Francesco Cetti.
2 Name three of the signatory nations that have ratified the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) under the Bonn Convention which came into force on 1 Febuary 2004.
3 Why specifically has the House Martin been neutered?
4 In which year did British Birds introduce the Monthly Marathon?
5 What size of ring would you use to ring a Goldcrest?
6 What was the population of the Critically Endangered Tumbesian endemic Pale-headed Brush-finch thought to be in 2003?
7 ‘Wettergulp’ and ‘pikgulp’ were names used by professional Dutch birdcatchers for two waders that wintered in Holland. What species are they thought to be?
8 What is the general colour of most Hippolais warbler eggs?
9 What rank was Jacob the Goose, the mascot of the Coldstream Guards (until the last one was run over in the Mall)?
10 Which of the following does not exist: Rufous-collared Sparrow, Rufous-winged Sparrow, Rufous-chested Sparrow or Rufous-crowned Sparrow?
11 What happened to British Birds in January 1999?
12 What eagle is named after the fearsome winged monsters of classical mythology, Aellopus and Ocypete?
13 What disease spread to America from Africa in 1999 and is a significant threat to many species of American bird?
14 Which artist designed the 1980 issue of Great Britain stamps, featuring Kingfisher, Dipper, Moorhen and Yellow Wagtail?
15 In which year was British Birds first published?
16 What is the resting heart rate of an Ostrich?
17 What bird may be known as a Bodfforchog in Wales and a Salmon-tailed Gled in Scotland?
18 How many Siberian Cranes wintered in Iran last year?
19 What Vulnerable seabirds were taken from Tristan da Cũnha by a South African zookeeper with Foreign Office approval in the past year?
20 In what country, other than Thailand, has Gurney’s Pitta been rediscovered (where it is inevitably threatened with deforestation for oil-palm cultivation)?
2004 B
Peter Wilkinson – BTO News
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1 Name a bird named after George Montagu.
2 Which species of extant albatross was found fossilised on Bermuda having been extinguished 400,000 years ago by a sea-level rise?
3 In which year was BTO News first published?
4 According to local Peruvian folk lore, what properties does the dried heart of the Endangered Marvellous Spatuletail possess?
5 Three Sedge Warblers, ringed at Litlington, Sussex, in August 2002, were recovered in Finisterre, France, in August 2003. What was remarkable about that?
6 Which of the following does not exist: Northern Double-collared Sunbird, Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Eastern Double-collared Sunbird or Western Double-collared Sunbird?
7 Why has a cock Ptarmigan had his male pride pricked?
8 What size ring would you use to ring a Tree Sparrow?
9 What was the subtitle carried by BTO News until dropped in May 1981?
10 What or who are the ‘Screaming Eagles’?
11 Where is a bird’s pygostyle?
12 Why were three White Pelicans removed from St James’s Park in London in 1982?
13 Which British breeding warbler lays unmarked brick-red eggs?
14 What organism produces the toxin that causes outbreaks of botulism in waterbirds?
15 What was the first bird to be depicted on a stamp of Great Britain on the 1946 ‘Victory’ issue 3d stamp?
16 What is the colour of the bill of a downy Water Rail chick?
17 What is the chief threat to the continued existence of the Blue Swallow in South Africa?
18 What connected Battersea Power Station, Chichester Cathedral, Gloucester City Hospital and Nottingham Trent University ornithologically in 2003?
19 What non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug is strongly implicated in the catastrophic decline in Indian vultures?
20 When does the shooting season for Snipe begin?
2004 C
Chris Harbard – Birdwatch
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1 Name a bird named after Jean François Emmanuel Baillon.
2 What size ring would you use to ring a Blackbird?
3 How much is the annual UK subscription to Birdwatch magazine, to the nearest pound?
4 Which species, which was lost to Ireland in the 17th century, does the Irish Wildlife Trust hope to reintroduce with nestlings from Wales?
5 The chief threats, as listed in Threatened Birds of the World, are the same for 13 out of 14 of the Globally Threatened species that occur only in the Tumbesian region. What are the threats?
6 Why are some German Nightingales now breaking the law?
7 What species, previously presumed extinct, was glimpsed and heard by a group of birders on Savai’i in Samoa on 5th October 2003?
8 Who was the Assistant Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in the early 19th century who destroyed many priceless specimens on bonfires because he deemed them ‘unwanted’ or ‘badly preserved’, but who nonetheless has a British seabird named after him?
9 Which of the following does not exist: Laughing Dove, Whistling Dove, Weeping Dove or Mourning Dove?
10 In which year was Birdwatch magazine first published?
11 What is the cloacal temperature of the little-known Hooded Gnatcatcher, as recorded in the Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 8?
12 Which muscle is the largest in a bird’s body and provides most of the force of the downstroke in flapping flight?
13 In which species of seabird was puffinosis first described?
14 What colour are Great Crested Grebe’s eggs when newly laid?
15 What bird is depicted on the 2004 South Korean postage stamp, which also depicts the Tokto Islets, which Japan claims as Japanese territory, thereby leading to political squabbling?
16 Apart from Woodpeckers, what other family has Ivory-billed, Lineated, Striped and Bar-bellied species?
17 In addition to habitat loss and degradation, what other threat is considered to be significant for the Rufous-headed Chachalaca in the Tumbesian region?
18 Which tail feathers are elongated in adult Long-tailed Skuas?
19 Which bird features on the badges of the Wiltshire Girl Guides and the Royal School of Artillery, has a pub in Lavington, Wiltshire, named after it and is being reintroduced onto Salisbury Plain?
20 By how much is the shooting season for Woodcock in Scotland longer than in England and Wales?
2004 D
Dave Nurney – Bird Watching
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1 Name a bird called after Gilbert White.
2 What is thought to have caused the skewing of the Wandering Albatross population on Prince Edward Island in favour of males?
3 In which year was Bird Watching magazine first published?
4 In addition to habitat loss and degradation, what particularly threatens the Critically Endangered Tumbesian endemic Pale-headed Brush-finch?
5 What species was thought to have a world population of 67,000 birds until 2.5 million were counted at Eighty Mile Beach in northwest Australia in February 2004?
6 What size ring would you use to ring a Tawny Owl?
7 Which of the following does not exist: Inaccessible Rail, Inexorable Rail, Invisible Rail or Snoring Rail?
8 In the first ever issue of Bird Watching magazine, what was the title of the article on twitching written by an extremely well-known TV personality (who doesn’t twitch)?
9 Where did the extinct pigeon, the Liverpool Pigeon Caloenas maculata, live?
10 How many chambers does the avian heart have?
11 Which Founder of a great Cambridge College first described the Dotterel as ‘morinellus’ – a little fool?
12 What do Glossy Ibis, Starling, Redstart and Dunnock eggs all have in common?
13 Who killed the Stymphalian Birds?
14 The medical condition of eating unusual substances such as dry paint, coal, excrement etc. shares a name with a common British bird’s Latin name. What is it?
15 What were the six geese doing on the 1977 Great Britain Christmas 7p stamp?
16 What species of wader bred in Wales for the first time in 2003?
17 When was the mysterious never-been-seen-in-the-wild Long-whiskered Owlet discovered?
18 How many nests have been recorded in the BTO’s Nest Record Scheme in its first 65 years?
19 What was the BTO’s Nest Record Scheme originally called?
20 Which feathers are grossly elongated on the wing of the breeding male Pennant-winged Nightjar?
2005 A
David Fisher – Sunbird
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1 What colour is the bill of an adult Red-legged Partridge?
2 What is the least numerous breeding English corvid?
3 What is ‘the Skylark Index’?
4 If you saw a Balbuzard pêcheur in France, what would you be watching?
5 To publicise the plight of which threatened group of birds did John Ridgway sail round the world in 2003/04 in English Rose VI?
6 Which European country has the largest breeding population of Stonechats?
7 What unfortunate slogan did the charity Animal Aid use to alert people to their feelings about the National Cage and Aviary Birds Exhibition at Stoneleigh in 2004?
8 The range of the Wood Duck in North America falls completely within the range of which unrelated species (upon which it is dependent for successful breeding)?
9 When was Gurney’s Pitta last recorded in Myanmar prior to its rediscovery there in 2003?
10 A Razorbill ringed at Bardsey in 2004 had previously been ringed 32, 42 or 52 years before?
11 750,000 eggs of which species are harvested annually in a supposedly sustainable manner in the Seychelles?
12 Who wrote Birds of Burma published in Rangoon in 1940 (and the UK in 1953)?
13 Which species, ringed in Britain, had the most recoveries away from the site of ringing in 2003?
14 Which of the following does not exist – Musician Wren, Harpist Wren, Flutist Wren or Happy Wren?
15 Which close relative of the Okinawa Rail was discovered on 11th May 2004 on the Babuyan Islands in the Philippines?
16 Into what did Aristotle believe that Redstarts changed in order to account for their absence in winter?
17 How many people attended Madagascar’s first Birdfair in 2004, to the nearest 1,000?
18 Are there more birds on the British List described as Yellow, Grey or Golden?
19 In which country is Chaplin’s Barbet endemic?
20 Are there more species of Acrocephalus, Sylvia or Phylloscopus on the British List?
2005 B
Tim Melling – Naturetrek
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1 What colour are the legs of the breeding White-winged Black Tern?
2 Which species was ringed most frequently in Britain in 2003?
3 What was the species upon which Edgar Chance did his pioneering work in Worcestershire in the early part of the 20th century?
4 Following the recent taxonomic revision, of the five Houbara Bustards that have been recorded in Britain, how many have been reidentified as Macqueen’s Bustard?
5 Where do Greylag Geese breeding in the Forest of Dean go to moult?
6 If you saw a Chardonneret in France, what would you be watching?
7 How many wild birds were recorded as imported into the EU in 2000, to the nearest quarter of a million?
8 What was the Spruce Goose?
9 Which species of storm-petrel, believed to be extinct in the 19th century, was rediscovered in 2003?
10 What is Gurney’s Pitta’s current IUCN Red List categorization?
11 When were Porro prismatic binoculars invented, within 5 years?
12 What bird’s song was described by Bobby Tulloch as ‘the sound of fairies being sick’?
13 An individual of which species of albatross wearing a ‘geolocator’ on its leg was recorded to have circumnavigated the Southern Ocean in 46 days, having travelled a minimum of 22,000 km?
14 Which of the following does not exist – Puna Tinamou, Pampas Tinamou, Chaco Tinamou or Choco Tinamou?
15 Common Quail and Turtle Doves in Vojvodina in Serbia are especially threatened by what or who?
16 From where do the eggs used for the current Great Bustard reintroduction programme on Salisbury Plain come (omitting the obvious answer)?
17 Which site won the BTO/Hanson Business Bird Challenge ‘Major Wetland’ category with 188 species recorded in 2004 – beating Rutland Water by three?
18 What percentage of bird species have been recorded hybridising with other species?
19 What percentage of male Mute Swans are estimated to be killed by other swans in territorial disputes in the UK?
20 What was the occupation of John Henry Gurney, after whom the Pitta is named?
2005 C
Nigel Jones – Ornitholidays
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1 What colour is the tail of the Azure-winged Magpie?
2 When were Gannets first recorded breeding on Sule Skerry in the Orkneys?
3 Which Western Palaearctic raptor was made ‘Person of the week’ on the ABC TV World News Tonight programme, after visiting Martha’s Vineyard?
4 What was the last new species seen by the late Phoebe Snetsinger in Madagascar before her death?
5 What feature of some Feral Pigeons appears to reduce their chances of being caught by a stooping Peregrine when compared with those without this feature?
6 If you saw an Alouette lulu in France, what would you be watching?
7 What unique group defence mechanism do Fieldfares Turdus pilaris use on potential predators?
8 What is the largest bird family on the Sibley/Monroe classification?
9 What development on Dunmaglass Estate in the Highlands is predicted to decimate the Golden Eagle population in the region?
10 What was the Scottish population of Golden Eagles in 2003?
11 Who first described Gurney’s Pitta?
12 Where in the British Isles has the Red-winged Laughingthrush (Garrulax formosus) regularly bred since 1996, having escaped from captivity?
13 Name three of the eight key species targeted in the Scarce Woodland Bird Survey conducted by the BTO in 2005 and 2006?
14 Which of the following does not exist – Mountain White-eye, Mountain Black-eye, Barrow’s Goldeneye or Barrow’s Silver-eye?
15 What bird, according to BWP ‘may attempt to force prey off mountain ledges including sheep, chamois, steinbok and even man’?
16 In the hard winter of 1962/63, what was the highest recorded number of wrens observed entering a single nest-box in Britain?
17 Which species of goose could Roman Catholics eat on Fridays in the belief that it was a fish?
18 The BBC reported the rediscovery of which species on 28th April 2005 (unfortunately getting its name wrong)?
19 Where was the only area in England in which Hen Harriers bred successfully in 2004?
20 What was the 2003 population of the Galapagos Penguin reckoned to be?
2005 D
Brian Small – Limosa
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1 What colour are the legs of a breeding Rose-coloured Starling?
2 What bird is on the back of a £10 note with Charles Darwin?
3 Little Auk chicks are usually fed by only one parent at the end of chick-rearing. Which parent?
4 The local extinction of which species in Alderford Common in Norfolk was blamed entirely on one egg-collector, Daniel Lingham, who was prosecuted in March 2005?
5 And what was his sentence?
6 Are there more birds on the British List described as Northern, European or Eurasian?
7 When was the first BTO ‘Inquiry into the Status of the Corncrake or Landrail’?
8 If you saw a Canard colvert in France, what would you be watching?
9 Who first described the Moustached Warbler, has a gull named after him and had an Uncle Napoleon?
10 When was Gurney’s Pitta first described?
11 A pair of which species constructed their nest in Doha, Saudi Arabia, in 1985 of, among other things, a plastic sandal, two pieces of lorry tyre, two left-hand gloves, a pair of gentleman’s underpants (size 32-inch waist) and a complete goatskin?
12 Which of the following does not exist – Sad Flycatcher, Melancholy Woodpecker, Sobbing Pigeon or Lacrimose Mountain-tanager?
13 What is the collective noun for a flock of Great Bustards?
14 What does ‘Operation Artemis’ seek to protect in the UK?
15 What is unusual about the only mainland breeding site of Jackass Penguin (in Namibia)?
16 In 2001 far more Grey Phalaropes were recorded in Britain than in any previous year. How many?
17 And what was the previous highest score?
18 Most motmots have racquet-like tips of the central rectrices, although they are initially fully barbed along the whole shaft. How does this come about?
19 There are two species of Folige-gleaner restricted to the Tumbesian region of Ecuador and Peru, both of which are considered to be Vulnerable. Name one.
20 How many licensed ringers were there in England and Wales in 1958?
