Walton Hall Nature Trail - Tricky quiz 2

To do the quiz just fill in the boxes then finally click the submit button at the end. The level of difficulty between questions varies rather a lot so everyone should get at least some right and people with a good knowledge of British wildlife should be able to do them all. Many of the answers can also be found in the nature trail or in the 'what's on' sections.

1. What grey animal is this?

2. They were introduced into Britain from USA, but in approximately which year?: (a) 1870-1930; (b) 1930-1950; (c) 1760-1820; (d) 1500-1600

3. What is shown in the picture left?

4. What was its main industrial use [the answer is very similar to its English name].

Next an audio question, there are two versions of the same sound, experts may be able to identify it from just one second of sound! 1 second (23k) or 4 seconds (100k).

5. What was making this sound

6. How many of them did 'my truelove send to me' in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas
7. What species is shown left

8. In which season of the year do they develop the large crest along their back and tail?

9. What type of drink is associated with the plant shown left?

10. Name one other plant in the same family?

11. What type of butterfly is this?

12. You can see a long tube going from its head into the flower, this is used to suck up nectar, what is this tube called?

13. What species of tree is this leaf from?

14. What are the round things?

15. What type of organism causes the round things to be produced?

An audio question, there are two versions of the same sound, experts may be able to identify it from just one second of sound! 1 second (23k) or 4 seconds (100k).

16. What is making the sound?
17. One of the sexes is dull and drab but the other is brightly coloured and so more likely to get shot, which is the brighter sex?

18. Lying on my back looking up at the purple gills of this edible species, what is it?

19. This species normally comes up at a slightly different time to many of the other larger species, when?: (a) spring; (b) late summer; (c) late autumn/winter

20. The picture left shows a French person zooming round the nature trail on a bike. In Milton Keynes there is a special name for the system of cycle tracks, what is it?

21. Apart from cyclists, name the fastest species you are likely to see around the trail?

Lastly a mystery picture - it is a mystery to me as well. For a change it was not taken along the nature trail but in a mixed woodland area of the New Forest. Its blackish head and legs were retracted when I took the shot.

All pictures used in the trail copyright Mike Dodd. Thanks to Ian Trimnell for help with programming these pages.

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