Natural history quiz (for the not so bored).

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Frank Homes said:
Here are my questions.
1. What small tree found in the UK has small capsular fruit that turns pink to reddish purple from September onwards. The wood is very hard and makes superior charcoal?
2. What moths' caterpillar food is birds foot trefoil and what poisonous substance can it emit at all stages of its life cycle?
3. When the cuckoo lays an egg it frightens its host by imitating what bird?
4. Who was born in 1793 in Helpston and is regarded as one of Englands finest nature poets?

Good luck
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Spindle wood/tree/

blue butterfly's oops read it again cyanide and burnet

hawks/falcons
John Clare
 
levigsp said:
Next time I'm in Suffolk in January Ill take photos of eggs and young,[ I dislike the term squab for wild pigeon] I do not know of a month in the year where pigeons cannot get starch based feed and other seeds in the wild.
In Caithness, they get wheat, rape, barley, oats and wild seeds peas .
In Suffolk you can add buckwheat, triticale, maize, sweetcorn, sorghum, millet, quinio beans etc etc so wood pigeons get ample feed all year round. the reason they don't breed in Caithness year round is the extreme wind and rain in winter. Suffolk does not suffer with the same issues and has warm fir woods for nesting and roosting.
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Squab is a pigeon up to it fledging usually 3-6 weeks depending food and weather, it’s just a time window of the birds development not a name in itself it’s a growth placement to fledging
 
Ok Shikar was ultimately the closest with his Final answer of cyanide, Levigsp you would have got it if you had said sparrow hawk. Over to you Shikar.
 
jus
Overlay said:
Squab is a pigeon up to it fledging usually 3-6 weeks depending food and weather, it’s just a time window of the birds development not a name in itself it’s a growth placement to fledging
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When I was a child I was taught that a squab was a nestling pigeon tied to the nest so that it was fattened more than usual. Now people seem to call any nestling pigeon a squab which is wrong. Squeaker is the correct country term for young pigeons and nestling is the official term.
 
OK. See what you make of these;


  1. Only animal with four knees?
  2. The bird that allegedly steals milk from goats.
  3. Buffalo weaver, Rhino beetle, Elephant shrew. What’s missing and what are they?
  4. The Radens, Bandicotts, Claybodys. Where am I?
  5. Which country is shaped like the leaf of one of its indigenous trees. And what animals footprint is it like? Country. Tree. Animal.
 
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