Литагент HarperCollins - Bird Brain - Over 2,400 Questions to Test Your Bird Knowledge

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First published in the United Kingdom by William Collins in 2018

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Source ISBN: 9780008315740

eBook Edition © October 2018 ISBN: 9780008315757

Version: 2018-08-09

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Copyright Copyright Preface History of Birdfair 30 Years of Global Impact General Knowledge Questions Specialist Questions General Knowledge Answers Specialist Answers About the Book About the Publisher William Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF WilliamCollinsBooks.com First published in the United Kingdom by William Collins in 2018 This eBook edition published by William Collins in 2018 Copyright © Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife 2018 Front Cover Photograph © Shutterstock The authors assert their moral right to be identified as the authors of this work. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this eBook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Source ISBN: 9780008315740 eBook Edition © October 2018 ISBN: 9780008315757 Version: 2018-08-09

Preface

History of Birdfair

30 Years of Global Impact

General Knowledge Questions

Specialist Questions

General Knowledge Answers

Specialist Answers

About the Book

About the Publisher

The Bird Brain of Britain competition at the Birdfair began in 1992 with the title Mastermind and it roughly followed the BBC’s successful programme of the same name. Distinguished ornithologists (Chris Mead, Janet Kear, Nigel Collar and Chris Harbard) volunteered to compete and Bill Oddie was the natural question master. It was a success and has continued ever since. The snappier title Bird Brain of Britain was thought of for 1995 and so it has remained. Leading ornithologists continued to ‘volunteer’ and Bill Oddie continued to grill them, for all but two of the next eighteen years, when Chris Packham was Inquisitor. In the last few years others filling the Torquemada role have been, besides Bill and Chris, Nick Baker, Mike Dilger and Stephen Moss.

The contestants set the Specialist questions (in theory). They are asked to provide ten questions each for the other three contestants so that there are thirty questions to ask. In practice, some questions are the same, some are unaskable and some are not absolutely correct. I have set the General Knowledge questions for the last eighteen years. I am uncertain who really set the questions in the early years before I was involved, but I was under the impression that Tim Dixon set them. However, as he won the 1993 contest, either somebody else did or …