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What is falconidae?
The family of a Peregrine Falcon.
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What is a snowy owl?
Harry’s avian friend Hedwig is this kind of owl.
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What is a Raven?
Edgar Allen Poe once had a conversation with this bird entirely in rhymes.
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What is a kiwi?
This flightless bird is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak, and also the name of a fruit.
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What is a Galapagos Penguin?
This is the only penguin species that ventures north of the equator in the wild.
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What is the red-tailed hawk?
This bird native to Georgia is known for its brick-colored tail.
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What are ravens?
Rumor has it that England will fall if these birds ever cease guarding the Tower of London.
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What is a Goldfinch?
Donna Tartt’s first novel features a painting of this bird.
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What are chicken wings?
Setting a world record, a man by the name of Patrick Bertoletti ate 444 ____ in just 26 minutes.
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What is the Sarus Crane?
This is the largest flying crane.
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What is a charm?
This beguiling word describes a group of finches.
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What is Barbie of Swan Lake?
This 2003 cgi animated straight to video movie opens with a young maiden chasing a unicorn into the enchanted forest.
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What is a sparrow?
This bird’s droppings fell into Tobit’s eyes and caused cataracts to form, blinding him.
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What is a toucan?
This bird is a major sponsor for fruitloops.
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What is an Ostrich?
While this bird does not have a bladder like a mammalian bladder, it is unique among birds because it does have a complete separation of feces and urine.
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What is a duck or goose?
Someone who suffers from "anatidaephobia" believes that somewhere, somehow a ____ is constantly watching them.
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What is Flamingoes.
There are more fake copies of this bird on Earth than real live ones.
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What are the Stymphalian Birds?
Hercules used loud bells to drive away these man-eating pests as his 6th labor.
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What is the Hooded Pitohui?
This is the only known poisonous bird in the world. (so don't eat it)
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What is a chicken?
The longest feathers ever seen (measuring 34.7 feet) were on this bird in Japan.
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What is the Mockingbird?
This bird’s latin name “Mimus polyglottos” translates literally to “many-tongued mimic”
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What are Huey, Dewey, and Louie?
These are the names of Donald Duck’s nephews.
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What is Hope?
Dickinson thinks that this is the thing with feathers.
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What is a Bassian Thrush?
This kind of bird finds food by farting.
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What is a woodpecker?
This Bird’s tongue can be up to 4" long. It stores this long tongue by curling it in and sticking it through a specialized opening at the back of its neck, where it can then put it between the skull and skin.
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