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Xmas Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to the Oxon Bird Log Xmas Quiz. Of those that entered, the standard was very high. The clear winner though was Barry Batchelor with all answers correct and he gets the prize of the signed Ian Lewington Scops Owl print.

Question	Answer
1. Demand feline consciousness	Kittiwake
2. Historic architect	Wren
3. Entrance for a giant killer by the sound of it	Jackdaw
4. A short fixed period of work	Little Stint
5. Itchy ditty	Song Thrush
6. Communist tethered aircraft	Red Kite
7. I hear Sir finds himself in a storm	Nightingale
8. This dry humour's a head turner	Wryneck
9. Shoot from cover	Snipe
10. Pale flower stem by the sound of it	White Stork
11.Water fowl that goes like a steam train	Mallard
12.Gulp down	Swallow
13.Liverpool player on the side?	Redwing
14.Jonathan the writer	Swift
15.Batty singer	Willow Warbler
16.Bearded stage act I hear?	Whiskered Tern
17.The boy wonder	Robin
18.Chesapeake bay window	Baltimore Oriole
19.Newby without end	Rook
20.e.g. I map - all confused	Magpie
21.Communist Party funded butcher	Red-backed Shrike
22.Gosh further termites by the sound of it	Cormorant
23.To have ones posterior pinched by the The Office management	Brent Goose
24.Hillbilly diver	Red-necked Grebe
25.Vulgar rubber-necking	Common Crane
26.Chaffed leg?	Redshank
27.Too cold to go topless?	Blue Tit
28.Early Norman Cook	House Martin
29.Food found foraging in the countryside by the sound of it?	Fieldfare
30.One last song without words	Mute Swan
31.Chinese civil servant	Mandarin
32.Second helping of chicken?	Moorhen
33.Royal angler	Kingfisher
34.Labour Party election	Redpoll
35.Rooster in a copse	Woodcock
36.From the darkness came 'A growled noel'	Long-eared Owl
37.Right for painting (with lots of colours)	Roller
38 The first page of a branded notebook?	Black Redstart

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