What type of bird is this? (Kids' Version) Quiz

Answer: Blackbird

The common blackbird breeds throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa. It eats insects, earthworms, berries and fruits.
The nursery rhyme goes: "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie! When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?"
The Beatles also recorded a song called "Blackbird" -- it appeared on "The White Album" in 1968.

Answer: Wren

There are more than 80 sub-species of wren, but the Eurasian wren (usually known just as a wren) is the only one found in Europe and Africa. It will often wake you up with its long and cheerful song that sounds a bit like a clock winding down.
The ancient Greek story-teller Aesop wrote a fable about the eagle and the wren. The Brothers Grimm, 19th century German folklorists, wrote the story of "The Willow-Wren and the Bear".
Members of the British Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) are nicknamed 'wrens'.
"Wren Day" ("Lá an Dreoilín" in Irish) is celebrated in Ireland on the day after Christmas Day, which is also Saint Stephen's Day (hence the line from "Good King Wenceslas" - "...on the feast of Stephen...".

Answer: Magpie

The Eurasian magpie, or common magpie, is the only member of the genus seen in Europe. There are three other closely-related species: the Korea magpie which is native to southeast Asia, and the yellow-billed and black-billed magpies which live in western North America. Their are also another dozen species of magpie within the crow family, but these are more like cousins than siblings.
Like its brother crows such as the raven and jackdaw, the magpie has a brain-to-body weight ratio is on a par with most of the great apes. Not only are these the most intelligent birds, but they are amongst the smartest of all animals.
There is a also a butterfly called a Magpie -- it is a milkweed from Papua New Guinea. There is also a family of magpie moths.
Cats described as 'magpie' are bicolor with irregular black-and-white spotting.
Newcastle United and Notts County from the English soccer league and Collingwood from the Australian rules football league are all nicknamed The Magpies.

Answer: Canada Goose

Native to the temperate regions of North America and parts of the Arctic, the Canada Goose has recently been introduced to Britain and New Zealand. These birds are born with yellow coats that slowly develop into the distinctive brown body plumage with a black head and white chinstrap.

The largest concentration of Canada geese can be seen in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the U.S.A. During migration season they can often be seen heading into the southern U.S. flying in their familiar V-shaped formation. Founded in Toronto in 1957, Canada Goose Expedition Clothing Outfitters is a popular manufacturer of cold-weather outerwear.

Answer: Cuckoo

The common cuckoo (or European cuckoo) is slate grey with a slender body and long tail. He lives mostly on a diet of insects, but is also known to eat eggs and chicks of other bird species.
Female cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, primarily warblers, pipits, wagtails and robins -- all noticeably much smaller birds than the cuckoo. When the cuckoo egg hatches, the chick then sets about pushing the host's other eggs, or the chicks if they were born first, out of the nest so that it can monopolize the food supply from the host adult.
"Cuckoo" was the name of one of the most-watched sitcoms on British TV in 2012.
The cuckoo clock was first made in Augsburg, in southwestern Bavaria in 1625. It was not until the middle of the 18th century that manufacturing cuckoo clocks had moved west to the Black Forest region of Germany that we now associate with them today.

Answer: Albatross

There are 22 species of albatross divided into four genera, many of which are today threatened with extinction. The biggest can have wingspans up to 3.7 metres, the largest of any bird. They all use air currents to soar over great distances whilst expending little effort as they search for their diet of squid, fish and krill.
The pictured bird is the white-capped albatross, the largest of ten albatross species within the genus known as mollyhawks. Native to the islands and coasts of New Zealand, they forage far and wide and have been seen as far away as the Falkland Islands to the east, South Africa to the west and southern India to the north.
Many golfers can play their whole lives without ever scoring an 'albatross', a score of three under par on a single hole.
Fleetwood Mac scored a UK number 1 single in 1968 with a guitar-based instrumental release called "Albatross".
A famous 1970 Monty Python sketch begins: "Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!" followed by the question: "What flavor is it?"

Answer: Swan

There are a half dozen species of swan, all closely related to geese and ducks.
Swans eat only vegetation and can often be seen digging into the mud to get at roots and tubers. Beware of approaching swans -- they can be very aggressive when defending their nest.
The pictured species is a trumpeter swan, a close relative of the European whooper swan. An average trumpeter swan is about five feet in length but they can be found as long as six feet. Their wingspan can be as much as eight feet. Although barely more than half of trumpeter swans survive into adulthood, their life expectancy thereafter is high -- they have been known to live into their thirties in captivity.
Tchaikovsky's first ballet, first performed in 1876, is "Swan Lake".
Swansea City of the English soccer league and an Australian Rules football team from Sydney use the swan as their mascot and nickname.
The swan is also the emblem of Western Australia and the city of Perth.

Answer: Eagle

Birds of prey with large, hooked beaks and powerful talons, all eagles also have incredible eyesight, enabling them to see possible prey from a great distance. Although their particular diet may vary (some species eat fish and other water birds, some have a taste for ground-dwelling mammals and birds, and some even prefer snakes), most eagle species are at the very top of the avian food chain.
The pictured bird is one of the two species of eagle native to North America, the golden eagle (the other is the bald eagle). They are most commonly seen in those areas furthest from human habitation, particularly the mountainous regions of U.S.A. and Canada. Their broad long wings, with finger-like feathers at the ends, make the golden eagle amongst the best fliers and the most efficient hunter of all birds of prey. Once caught, little escapes -- their talons exert around fifteen times as much pressure as a human hand. Opportunistic hunters, virtually any reasonably-sized animal may be predated, and there are records of more than 400 different types of vertebrate being caught by a golden eagle.
The eagle is the name and symbol of the Philadelphia franchise in the NFL. It was also the nickname of the famously inept British Olympic ski jumper, Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards. In golf, an eagle is a score of two below par on any single hole.
Founded in Los Angeles in 1971, The Eagles are one of the great rock bands.

Answer: Woodpecker

The anthropomorphic cartoon character was not Donald Duck (who debuted in 1934 and was voiced by Clarence Nash for his first 60 years on screen), but Woody Woodpecker. The first film featuring Woody was "Knock Knock", produced by the Walter Lantz studio in 1940.
Real woodpeckers are found worldwide except in Australasia and the polar regions. They share their family with piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers. The obvious common characteristic is their strong, sharp bill, used both for drilling and drumming on trees, and long, sticky tongues, with which they extract their food. Their diet consists of both grubs and insects as well as fruit, nuts and sap.
The pictured bird is the downy woodpecker which, with a length of 5.5-7 inches and a wingspan of just 10-12 inches, is North America's smallest native woodpecker. They live mostly in forested regions and excavate a cavity in the trunk or limb of a tree for a nest.
Woodpecker is also a popular brand of cider in the U.K.

Answer: Blue Jay

Resident throughout most of eastern Canada and the U.S.A., the blue jay is commonly found in forested areas in and around cities. Its diet consists mostly of nuts, seeds and fruit, although it will also feed on insects, crustaceans and small invertebrates. The blue jay is the squirrel of the bird kingdom, hiding nuts and acorns for later. One of the slowest flyers, though, puts the blue jay high on the menu of most raptors, particularly hawks and owls. As a result, the blue jay is also one of the noisiest of bird species.
The blue jay is the mascot and nickname of Major League Baseball's Toronto franchise as well as their two Florida-based farm teams, in Dunedin and Gulf Coast. The sports teams of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD and Creighton University in Omaha NE both also use the blue jay as their nickname.
"Blue Jays" was also a 1975 album by Justin Hayward and John Lodge.