h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The final quiz for this year is a picture quiz (I'd have done more but I've just been too busy recently).

This link is to a picture with 24 birds. The final word of the bird's name begins with a different letter of the alphabet (so a Blue Tit would be under T, for example). Letters X and Z are not featured.

http://tinypic.com/r/517t3c/9

Can you name the bird featured for each letter?

Heh... I'll be sitting this one out until I get home. tinypic.com is blocked here. I guess they thought I'd see too many .

I'll try this later, still trying to explain the 17th Century to 11-year-olds with small vocabularies...

I see bald eagles in the bottom row. That would be E
There's apparently a sandpiper. If Sand and Piper are two words, that would be a P
There's a robin. I didn't know any robins had more than one word for their names, but if so, then that's an R.
I think I see a seagull, or maybe it's a storny petrel, which would be a P. But in that case, the sandpiper above would have to be an S.
I think I see what must be cockatoos or maybe macaws [or both], giving a C and an M.

By the time I can get back to this puzzle, chances are all the birds will have been identified.

Is the message that this puzzle is for the birds?

I bagsy the Quetzal - I discovered those for the first time last weekend, so that's coincidental... (it's the green and red one)

I'll guess Albatross
Waxwing
Sacred Ibis
I'll guess Fish Eagle for the one with the fish
Nuthatch
Possibly Chaffinch
Toucan
I'll guess Grouse

Good quiz - I recognise most of the others, but can't think of the names...

There's an owl of some kind...

Cassowary
Scarlet Tanager
Hornbill

are the (so far unidentified) ones I'm pretty sure of.

WOW!


I can't believe that a) I would know one that wasn't obvious to everyone, b) after 5 hours no one else would have gotten it (unless I missed it above.


K - Kakapo


How has no one spotted the kakapo shagging Mark Carwardine's head yet?

http://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY

The diving one is a gannet.
The white one with a red bit on its head is a ptarmigan, I think.

Good start!

Correct so far are:

Albatross
Cassowary
Eagle (but I don’t think you identified the right picture)
Gannet
Hornbill
Ibis
Kakapo
Macaw
Nuthatch
Ptarmigan
Quetzal
Toucan
Waxwing

To make it easier, these are the ones you've solved, arranged in the order of the pictures:

E G ? ? P
? M C ?
? ?/? I Q/T N/H
? ? A W K ? ?

The last one in the second row is a Jay.

I think the second one on the last row is a Yellowhammer.

We're missing

BDFJLORSUVY

If I'm right about Jay and Yellowhammer, we have these left to find:

B, D, F, L, O, R, S, U, V

I think the fourth in the top row is Great Bustard (B)

First in second row could be a Lyre bird

Is the 6th one in the last row a Baltimore Oriole?

Of thoe, Jay, Yellohammer and Lyrebird are correct:


Correct so far are:

Albatross
Cassowary
Eagle
Gannet
Hornbill
Ibis
Jay
Kakapo
Lyrebird
Macaw
Nuthatch
Ptarmigan
Quetzal
Toucan
Waxwing
Yellowhammer


E G ? ? P
L M C J
? ?/? I Q/T N/H
? Y A W K ? ?

Missing letters: B D F O R S U V

I could have sworn that one of the birds was a robin.

He's like an American robin but more brightly coloured. Could be some sort of a fancy thrush.

You say Macaw, I saw Mahcaw.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls

Any more takers for these?

As a clue, two of the remaining birds are named after their unusual feather shapes...

Time is really flying, so I don't think I'll get the chance to guess any more.