Answers To Quiz Of The Month
This month no one have given all right answers, greenlifesociety@yahoo.com and scjmainpuri@yahoomail.co.in have given 8 right answers.
Right Answer toQuiz on Gruiformes
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| 1.`Gruiformes` are the diverse group of birds consisting of |
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Game Birds |
Cranes, Rails and Bustards |
Waders, Gulls and Auks
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| 2.The birds grouped together as ‘gruiformes’ |
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Tend to look similar |
Are seen in a particular geographical area |
Share certain anatomical features
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| 3.Several of the world’s cranes are now endangered mainly due to |
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Drying up of rivers |
Global Warming |
Hunting and land drainage
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| 4.This crane spends the whole year in one locality |
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Sandhill crane |
Siberian crane |
Sarus crane
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| 5.The smallest of the cranes is |
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Whooping crane |
Demoiselle crane |
Japanese crane
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| 6.These long legged birds of the open plains are powerful runners. These are |
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Sarus cranes |
Black necked cranes |
Bustards
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| 7.To court a female he, 1)extends his neck and wings 2) Bows deeply 3) Then approaches the female. Who is he? |
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The Sarus crane |
The African dancing crane |
The Common crane
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| 8.The purple moorhen ( family :rail) is a common site at |
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Santragachi, Calcutta |
Okhla Barrage, Delhi |
Sewri Bay, Mumbai
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| 9.These rails get quarrelsome during breeding season. Rival males clash over territory. These are, |
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| 10.These members of ‘gruiformes’ are small, secretive birds with rounded wings and short tails and the rear toe on each foot missing. These are, |
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Partridges |
Spur fowls |
Button quails
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