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Questions
Its name also having been used for different species in Australia and Africa, the huge stork known as the jabiru comes from a Tupi-Guarani word that means what? One distinctive feature is a red pouch at the base of its throat.
SWOLLEN NECK
Also going by the name redbird, common cardinal, red cardinal or simply, cardinal, what is the most common rendering of ‘Cardinalis cardinalis’, this being to distinguish it from cardinals found in other areas?
NORTHERN CARDINAL
Unsurprisingly having a geographical distribution further south than the Northern cardinal, what is the alternative name for the desert cardinal? It comes from the Greek and refers to its reddish colour and the oblique shape of its bill.
PYRRHULOXIA
Found in Colombia and Venezuela, which third member of the Cardinalis genus gets its common name from the striking colour of its male?
VERMILION CARDINAL
The sole extant member of the genus Megadyptes is a penguin that has been given what common name thanks to a distinctive feature? Endemic to New Zealand, it is also known as hoiho or tarakaka.
YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN
Written and directed by “Full House” star Bob Saget, which parody of “March of the Penguins” has Samuel L. Jackson as its narrator and among its many sphenisciformes is one who is ‘freezing their nuts off’?
FARCE OF THE PENGUINS
Found in North America and the only member of the Corthylio genus, what type of bird is the ‘ruby-crowned’, this name coming from the red patch on its head? There is also a golden-crowned version that carries the same name, though this sits in a different genus.
KINGLET
A member of the kinglet family, what is the repetitive binomial carried by the goldcrest, a bird that unsurprisingly sports a nice streak of gold on top of its head?
REGULUS REGULUS
Now a name used by two different species, one of which is native to Madeira, which members of the Regulus genus get their name from the orange crown seen on the males?
FIRECREST
Its binomial name taken from ornithologist Walter Goodfellow, the flamecrest is a member of the Regulus genus that is native to which island, this being sometimes put before firecrest in an alternate name?
TAIWAN