Welcome to The Ultimate Bird Names Quiz!
The names of birds add so much richness to our vocabulary. In fact, the naming of birds appears to be an art form in itself—how else can one explain the sonorous Capercaillie for a woodland grouse, or the silken Sylph for a long-tailed hummingbird? And Prothonotary Warbler… by the time you’re done pronouncing that on your first try, the bird would have flown.
Closer home, we have the newly anointed Sholakili and Chilappan in the Western Ghats, birds that once answered to other names (actually, only birders did; the birds probably don’t give a hoot).
Bend your mind with this quiz, and get under the mystery of the etymology of bird names. If you can name the feeling you’re left with at the end of the quiz, that’s a start!
This quiz has 10 questions.
Interesting quiz to introspect one’s own knowledge. An eye opener too..
Hi Nagaraj, thanks for your feedback, and do tell people about it because an interesting thing deserves to be seen and experienced, no?
Nice quiz, makes you scratch your head and think!
Thanks for taking the quiz, Anirban!
Hope you didn’t have to scratch too hard 😛