Wildlife Quiz
All the questions in this quiz are about wildlife native to the UK.
Questions
- With adults typically weighing just 5 grams, which bird species is the UK's smallest?
- What is the UK's fastest land mammal?
- With several colonies in the UK, which birds because of their appearance and colour, are sometimes referred to as the "clowns of the sea"?
- What are the UK's largest wild mammals?
- Abundant in places like Orkney Islands, there are an estimated 200,000 grey what in the UK, which is half of the animal’s global population?
- What is an otter's nest called?
- What is the UK's largest land carnivore?
- Can you name the UK's largest native terrestrial reptile?
- Anguis fragilis are legless lizards which spend their time hiding underneath objects, by what name do we better know them?
- Cirius caroliniensis were first released in the UK in 1876 in Henbury Park, Cheshire - what are they?
- Eighteen bat species are found in the UK, which species are you most likely to see?
- Which medium sized bird is found in heather moorland and is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird?
- Do killer whales live in UK waters? Yes or no?
- By what name do we know primula veris, the bright yellow bell-shaped flowers with five petals, found at spring in meadows and on woodland floors?
- Found throughout the UK, which species of owl is responsible for the classic, nocturnal 'twit twoo' call, the most commonly heard owl sound?
- The Queen still technically owns all 27 species of fishes belonging to the family Acipenseridae in the waters around England and Wales - by what name do we better know this fish?
- What usually makes up 80% of a badgers' diet?
- What word comes after both 'common' and 'holly' to give the names of two of Britain's most common butterflies?
- What name would you give to young hares, especially those in their first year?
- What wild animals from the genus vulpes would you expect to find in a skulk?
- Furze-pig and urchin are old English names for which British native mammal?
- Known as 'Highland Tigers', can you name Britain's only remaining native cat species since the Lynx went extinct around 1,000 years ago?
- Which semi-aquatic rodent is often informally called the water rat?
- Which bird native to the UK is the largest wading bird found in Europe?
- Epidalea calamita is a natterjack what?
Answers:
- Goldcrests
- Brown hare
- Puffins
- Red deer or deer
- Seals (grey seals)
- Holt or couch
- Badger
- Grass snake
- Slow worm or deaf adder (note, the slow worm is a legless lizard and not a snake)
- Gray squirrels
- Pipistrelle bats
- Red grouse
- Yes
- Cowslips
- Tawny owl
- Sturgeon
- Earthworms
- Blue ('common blue' and 'holly blue')
- Leverets
- Foxes (a group of foxes is referred to as a skulk)
- Hedgehog
- Scottish Wildcats
- Water vole
- Curlew
- Toad (natterjack toad)