The Great Big Garden Bird Quiz

Hello and welcome to the Great Big Garden Bird Quiz. Here you will find four themed rounds of five questions each. There will be a multiple choice round, a bird identification round, a bird song round and a bird yes or no round. Let's get started with five garden birds for you to identify. Here's bird number one. This is bird number two. Can you identify bird number three? This one is bird number four. And here is bird number five. And next is the multiple choice round. Question number one. Which of these garden birds is the smallest? Is it A. The Dunnock B. The Wren or C. The Goldcrest Question number two. What garden bird is known to mimic the songs of other species? A. The Starling B. The Songthrush or C. The Blackbird Here's question number three. Which of these garden birds has the highest known lifespan in the wild? Is it A. The Magpie B. The Wood Pigeon or C. The Robin This is question number four. Out of these three birds, which one typically lays the most eggs per clutch? A. The Great Tit B. The House Sparrow or C. The Blue Tit And question number five. Which of these three finches typically feeds on the ground underneath feeders instead of on them? A. The Greenfinch B. The Goldfinch or C. The Chaffinch And here are five garden bird songs. Can you identify them? Here's bird song number one. This is bird song number two. Which bird is singing bird song number three? This is bird song number four. And here is song number five. And the final round is the yes or no round. Simply answer yes or no to these five questions. Question number six. Are tree keepers one of the only birds that can walk headfirst down tree trunks? Question number seven. Is the wren the UK's most common breeding bird? Question number eight. Are blackcaps strictly summer visitors to the UK? Question number nine. Do green woodpeckers feed their chicks with crop milk? And finally it's question number ten. Do long-tailed tits typically nest in holes in trees? And now that I've asked all of the questions it's time for you to pause this video and comment your answers down below. In just a few seconds I'll reveal if you've got them right or not. Come on let's take a look at the answers. Bird number one is an increasingly rare garden visitor. The Coltit. These can be identified from their small size, grey wings, white cheeks and from a white patch on the back of their black heads. I did try to make bird number two a little bit tricky. It is a female blackcap. As you can see females have brown caps instead of black. Well done if you got bird number three correct. It is a nuthatch. With their bluey grey wings and caps, ginger undersides and black eyestripe. Once you see a nuthatch they're unmistakable. Give yourself half a point if you have woodpecker as your answer for bird number four. It is a great spotted woodpecker. These are about the size of a starling, have white shoulder patches and a bright red patch under their tails. Adult males have a red patch on the back of their necks whilst juveniles have a red cap. Adult females have neither. There are several birds that look similar to bird number five but this one is a song thrush. These can be identified from their brown wings and backs and cream undersides which are peppered in brown spots. If you look closely these brown spots are the shape of arrowheads. Dunnocks have an average weight of 18 to 25 grams. Wrens weigh from 9 to 12 grams and goldcrests weigh just 5 to 7 grams. Meaning the correct answer to question one is C. Not only are goldcrests the smallest bird in the UK, they are the smallest bird in the whole of Europe. The correct answer to question two is A. The starling is a brilliant mimic and will often copy the songs of other birds. The oldest known wild robin survived for 8 years, 4 months and 30 days. The oldest wood pigeon made it to 17 years, 8 months and 19 days. Whilst the oldest known wild magpie died at 21 years, 8 months and 23 days of age. This means the correct answer to question three is A. But I would like to say that it is highly likely that there are wild birds that have survived longer than these records without being detected. The correct answer to question number four is C. The blue tit usually lays the most eggs per clutch out of these three birds. House sparrows typically lay 4 to 5 eggs. Great tits lay 7 to 9 eggs. Whilst the normal clutch for a blue tit is 8 to 12 eggs. Whilst all three of the species in question five will visit the floor to feed occasionally, the one that is most often seen underneath feeders instead of on them is C. The chaffinch. You will have got bird song number one correct if you watch my recent fact file. It is the song of a collared dove. Characterised by a repetitive three note cooing sound. Bird song number two is that of a great tit. This is often described as sounding like teacher teacher. But beware great tits can make a wide variety of other sounds as well. Bird song number three is the electric sound of a starling. Their songs usually feature clicks, whistles and whirs and can sound like more than one bird is singing at a time. You can hear bird song number four at any time of the year. It is the song of a robin. Both males and females sing throughout the year even outside of their nesting season. You'll often hear song number five from the top branches of trees. It is a chaffinch. Their song is a rapid succession of whistling notes and it's one of my favourite bird songs. Whilst tree creepers are agile climbers their route usually takes them up the trunk of a tree and when they reach the top they fly to the bottom of another tree and repeat the process. But there is a bird in the UK that can walk head first down trees. The nuthatch. The correct answer to question seven is yes. According to the British Trust for Ornithology the wren is the most common breeding bird in the UK with over 20 million breeding pairs. If I'd asked this question 60 years ago the answer would have been yes but things have changed. Since the 1970s blackcaps have started to overwinter in the UK with around 10,000 birds currently doing so. The correct answer to question number nine is no but pigeons and doves do feed their chicks with croc milk. Long-tailed tits are brilliant nest architects and create a ball of moss, leaves and lichen woven together with spider's webs. This can expand as the chicks grow inside. The correct answer to question number 10 is no. And that is the end of this quiz. I hope you enjoyed it and I can't wait to see how you did in the comments down below. Thanks for taking part and if you'd like to discover more UK wildlife then check out this wildlife quiz that's on the screen here.