Quiz answers

Here are the answers to today’s quiz.   1. Which bird species has the largest UK breeding population? Wren 8,600,000 pairs. 2. How many UK breeding bird species have populations of over 1 million pairs?  I think there are 21; pheasant, wood pigeon, jackdaw, carrion crow, blue tit, great tit, skylark, chiffchaff, willow warbler, blackcap,…

Quiz

Here’s a quiz – and it’s just for fun.  The answers will be posted at 7pm this evening. If you have the February issue of British Birds (with a dipper on the cover) you can look up most of the answers in the excellent article on population estimates of birds in the UK. 1. Which…