Answers to the British Birds ID Quiz

Congratulations to the top 5 entrants who all take away a prize, they are

1.) Dante Shepherd - A Rare Bird Alert pager and a year's platinum subscription.

2.) James King - White's Thrush A4 print by Ian Lewington.

3.) Jonathan Wilson - £200 voucher for NatureTrek.

4.) Boris Delahaie - A set of four Spurn rarity photographs (Masked Shrike, Great Snipe, Ivory Gull & SIberian Accentor) by Martin Standley. 

5.) Neil Calbrade - A year's membership of the Oriental Bird Club.

And the answers that everyone has been waiting for!

1. Western Sandpiper
2. Barrow’s Goldeneye
3. Blackpoll Warbler
4. Masked Shrike
5. Northern Harrier
6. Whiskered Tern
7. Long-billed Murrelet
8. Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
9. Shorelark
10. Trumpeter Finch
11. Sykes’s Warbler
12. Bobolink
13. Desert Wheatear
14. Alder Flycatcher
15. Red-flanked Bluetail
16. Northern Wheatear
17. Common Kestrel & Peregrine
18. Baird’s Sandpiper
19. Blyth’s Reed Warbler
20. Green Heron
21. Grey-cheeked Thrush
22. Icterine Warbler
23. Lapland Bunting
24. Lesser Scaup
25. Marsh Sandpiper
26. Pied Wheatear
27. Tawny Pipit
28. American Golden Plover
29. Brown Shrike
30. Glaucous-winged Gull
31. Great Reed Warbler
32. Spotted Sandpiper
33. Tree Sparrow
34. Grey Partridge
35. Iberian Chiffchaff
36. Coue’s Arctic Redpoll
37. Lesser Yellowlegs
38. Little Bittern
39. Red Kite
40. Roseate Tern
41. Scarlet Tanager
42. Red-breasted Merganser
43. Mamora’s Warbler
44. Slaty-backed Gull 
45. Upland Sandpiper
46. White-throated Robin
47. Wilson’s Snipe
48. Common Whitethroat
49. American Buff-bellied Pipit
50. Eastern Crowned Warbler

Total points = 51 with 2 points up for grabs for no.17

Big thanks to all who have supplied us with prizes recently.