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An April Fool's Birdsong Quiz

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Only one of these three birds is real!

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This is bird note with a special April Fool's Day quiz for you.

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Only one of the birds we're about to hear is real.

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See if you can tell which one and let us know at birdno.org for a chance to win a prize.

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Here is our first bird.

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The gray go-away bird of southern Africa is smoky gray with a tall

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wispy crest. Favering open woodlands and thorn savanna gray-go-away birds

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are known for their loud and nasal

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no we calls often alerting other birds that there's a photographer nearby.

0:39.0

Here is our second bird.

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The green treasure snatcher of Ecuador is a large ground-dwelling bird with a scaly head that almost resembles a box turtle.

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They're known for snatching jewelry and other shiny objects from travelers

0:59.3

and hoarding it in deep burrows. And finally, bird number three. The zombie crossbill of Eastern Europe is often observed plucking the brains out of grasshopper heads.

1:18.0

Omega-3 is another fatty acids found in brains.

1:21.0

Help zombie crossbills fuel up for their long journey south each winter.

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Visit birdnote.org to let us know which bird you think is real and for your chance to win a prize. From Bird Note, happy April

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full's day. I'm Nick Byard. You're going to be.

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