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Nature Quiz - British Birds - Sandpipers and Godwits (Questions)

Godwits are shore birds (family Scolopacidae), large sandpipers with long legs and bills. Although not common tablefare today, they were once a popular British dish. Sir Thomas Browne writing in the seventeenth century noted that godwits "were accounted the daintiest dish in England." See if you can identify the following birds.

1. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper
[ ] Bar-tailed Godwit
[ ] Green Sandpiper
2. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Green Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper
3. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
4. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Bar-tailed Godwit
5. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
6. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Pectoral Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
7. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Green Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
8. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Bar-tailed Godwit
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Pectoral Sandpiper
9. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
10. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Marsh Sandpiper
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper

 

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Nature Quiz - British Birds - Sandpipers and Godwits (Answers)
1. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
[x] Buff-breasted Sandpiper
[ ] Bar-tailed Godwit
[ ] Green Sandpiper
2. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[x] Green Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper
3. What is the name of this bird?
[x] Curlew Sandpiper
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
4. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[x] Bar-tailed Godwit
5. What is the name of this bird?
[x] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
6. What is the name of this bird?
[x] Black-tailed Godwit
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[ ] Pectoral Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
7. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Green Sandpiper
[x] Wood Sandpiper
[ ] Curlew Sandpiper
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
8. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Bar-tailed Godwit
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[x] Pectoral Sandpiper
9. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Black-tailed Godwit
[x] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper
[ ] Wood Sandpiper
10. What is the name of this bird?
[ ] Purple Sandpiper
[x] Marsh Sandpiper
[ ] Common Sandpiper
[ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper