Welcome to No Fly Zone - The Challenging Flightless Birds Quiz
This quiz has 10 questions.
This ‘Challenging’ version focuses on the evolution, ecology and extinction of flightless birds. This version should be of interest to advanced birders and science buffs. Those who play this quiz (deservedly) earn triple the usual score for each correct answer!
Don’t forget to try your luck with the Easy-Peasy version too!
1.
Flightlessness evolved multiple times in birds due to:
2.
Which of the following best explains island gigantism in flightless birds?
3.
Ratites are a group of flightless birds. So why is the presence of tinamous within the ratite lineage evolutionarily significant?
4.
The evolution of dense bones in penguins serves what functional purpose?
5.
Which concept describes how the Aldabra Rail lost flight twice in evolutionary history?
6.
What structural change of the breastbone is observed in flightless birds?
7.
The Galápagos Cormorant is unique because:
8.
In flightless birds, what is the evolutionary trade-off in losing the power of flight?
9.
Which of the following DOES NOT contribute to flightlessness in birds?
10.
Which extinct bird was the heaviest known bird?
