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Flight quiz - fill in the missing vowels

Clues
     
1

*x*c*t

fish and missile
2 Myrm*r*d fairy fly (actually wasp)
3

*lytr*

Beetle wing cases
4 H*lt*r* balance organs of fly
5

H**st

Largest ever eagle
6

**r*f**l

Shape of wing
7 b*rb*l* hooks on feather
8

r*d*ng

flight of woodcock
9

k**l

bone flight muscle attached to
10

st**p

dive of peregrine
11 b**nd*ng fl*ght energy saving for woodpeckers
12

dyn*m*c s**r*ng

how an albatross flies
13

th*rm*ls

what vultures need
14

l*mm*rg***r

drops bones
15

sl*p* s**r*ng

eagles and buzzards do it
16

p*r*t*s

frigate birds and skuas do it
17 m*nx sh**rw*t*r got home from Boston in12.5 days
18

syr*nx

voice box of bird
19 *rct*c t*rn has longest migration
20

m*n*rch

butterfly with long new world migration
21 str*ps*pt*r* emblem of the royal entomological society
22

gr**t **k

extinct flightless bird
23

Dyt*sc*s m*rg*n*l*s

giant pond beetle
24 p*p*str*ll* there are bandit and saprano varieties
25

q**tz*lc**t**s

largest pterosaur
26

*rch***pt*ryx

first bird
     
 

 
   

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