Inkwazi 2023
Across
- 4. What is the adjective used to describe a feather that has a dark centre and a pale edge? (5)
- 5. What was the previous descriptor for "Fynbos" in Fynbos Buttonquail? (9)
- 6. Which weaver's nest has the longest spout? (10, 6 )
- 12. Which gull is commonly found inland? (4, 6, 4)
- 16. The name for species of hawks with short, rounded wings and long tails. (10)
- 19. What is the dull, non-breeding or winter plumage known as? (7)
- 22. What are widowfinches now known as? (11)
- 23. Which oxpecker has a yellow eye-wattle? (3, 6, 8)
- 24. The Ramsar Convention is named after a city in which country? (4)
- 27. Which sandgrouse species prefers stony and gravel desert environments? (7)
- 31. What is a patch of distinctive colour on a wing called? (8)
- 33. Which group of warblers have long tails, usually held upright? (7)
- 35. This francolin has a yellow eye. (3, 6)
- 36. What is the name for an eagle with feathers down to its feet? (6)
- 38. What is the English name for a "kiewit"? (7)
- 39. Which sandpiper has an unmistable long, upturned bill? (5)
- 40. A common garden thrush. (5)
- 41. Where is the only naturalised population of Chukar Partridge? (6, 6)
- 43. A word for a group of franklins or quails. (5)
- 45. Which courser has a blue-grey nape? (9)
- 46. What is the only parrot that occurs in South Africa? (4)
- 48. What is the group name for bishops, widowbirds and queleas? (10)
- 49. Which crombec has the greatest range? (4, 6)
Down
- 1. What is a species that eats mainly seeds called? (9)
- 2. Which weaver has a black eye stripe? (10, 6)
- 3. Which mousebird has a white lower mandible? (8)
- 7. Which species of starling is best described as "pale"? (7, 8)
- 8. What is the word for the sound birders make to mimic the alarm calls of passerines? (4)
- 9. "Lily-trotter" is the coloquial name for which birds? (7)
- 10. What do you call a visual representation of the frequencies of a bird's song over time? (11)
- 11. Which kingfisher has mauve ear coverts? (7, 5, 10)
- 13. Name a non-wading wader. (7)
- 14. This is the word for an alternative, but permanent, plumage colour. (5)
- 15. Which bird flies in a rocking and rolling motion as a courtship and territorial display? (6)
- 16. Which lark has the smallest range? (7, 4, 6)
- 17. Alien, invasive crow. (5)
- 18. Which southern African stork appears completely black? (7, 8)
- 20. A bird species that cannot perch. (5)
- 21. Which is the most common pipt in South Africa? (7, 5)
- 25. What do you call a group of swans in flight? (5)
- 26. What is the term that describes a bird's foot that has all four toes pointing forward? (12)
- 28. Where did the ancestors of all songbirds first evolve? (9)
- 29. What is the name of the widowbird that has reddish shoulder patches but no white? (3, 6)
- 30. How many quelea species are there? (5)
- 32. What is the world's 2501st Ramsar site? (10)
- 34. What do we call a species that lays a second clutch of eggs after rearing the first brood? (6, 7)
- 37. What is the proper name for a bird's main tail feathers? (8)
- 42. Term denoting black and white colouration. (4)
- 44. What is the ridge along the upper mandible of a Trumpeter Hornbill called? (6)
- 47. What was a Little Grebe previously known as? (8)