Kingfishers of the World Trivia Questions

Sample Kingfishers of the World Questions

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1. 1.This electric blue bird of European rivers is usually just a flash of colour and a whistle.

   
   • Red-backed Kingfisher
   • Common Kingfisher
   • Belted Kingfisher
   • Mangrove Kingfisher

2. 2.This heavy-billed Australian bird opens the dawn with a chorus of manic cackling.

   
   • Laughing Kookaburra
   • Green Kingfisher
   • Azure Kingfisher
   • Malagasy Kingfisher

3. 3.This shaggy-headed North American bird rattles along rivers, and the female is brighter than the male.

   
   • Javan Kingfisher
   • Malachite Kingfisher
   • Belted Kingfisher
   • White-rumped Kingfisher

4. 4.This black-and-white bird hovers over open water, which almost nothing else in its family can do.

   
   • Pied Kingfisher
   • Rufous-collared Kingfisher
   • Malaysian Blue-banded Kingfisher
   • Rufous-bellied Kookaburra

5. 5.This chestnut-and-turquoise bird is among the most-seen birds in Asia, usually far from water.

   
   • Green Kingfisher
   • White-throated Kingfisher
   • Rufous-collared Kingfisher
   • Spotted Kingfisher

6. 6.This is Africa's largest kingfisher, speckled black and white with a chestnut breast.

   
   • Giant Kingfisher
   • Forest Kingfisher
   • Lazuli Kingfisher
   • Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher

7. 7.This tiny African reedbed bird has a shaggy barred crown and a bright red beak.

   
   • Scaly-breasted Kingfisher
   • Gray-headed Kingfisher
   • Malachite Kingfisher
   • Indigo-banded Kingfisher

8. 8.This is the largest kingfisher of the Americas, rust below with a heavy dagger of a beak.

   
   • Banded Kingfisher
   • Laughing Kookaburra
   • Forest Kingfisher
   • Ringed Kingfisher

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