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 |
Answers |