Random Bird Trivia

Question 1

Give 3 examples of birds that duet?

Answer 1

Southern Boubou, Black-Collared Barbet, Bush-Shrikes

Question 2

What is bioacoustics?

Answer 2

Studies known as “Bioacoustics” which involve the recording and listening to bird calls, and it has been suggested that many passerines are capable of up to 15 different calls.

Question 3

What is the uropygial gland?

Answer 3

Preen gland in birds.

Question 4

What is rousing?

Answer 4

Raising the feathers and then shaking vigorously, although this may be performed on its own as a feather maintenance behaviour

Question 5

What is Gular-Fluttering?

Answer 5

evaporative cooling – bird sits with its beak open and rapidly pulsates the “gular” (throat) area in the same fashion as panting

Question 6

What is the practice of defecating on the bare skin of the legs and allowing the liquid droppings to evaporate, having a cooling effect on the skin called?

Answer 6

Urohydrosis

Question 7

Name 5 strategies birds use as anti predatory behaviour

Answer 7

Hiding, Feigning Injury, Alarm calls, Mobbing, Bird Parties

Question 8

What is hyperphagia? How does it relate to birds?

Answer 8

Abnormally increased appetite for food. Before some bird species migrate they will gain weight to help them last the trip.