Oxon Birding highlights from 2019 and the answers to the Christmas Quiz.

A compilation of the birding year featuring the rares, the scarce and the seasonal sought afters that
were encountered in 2019. As always thank you to all those who have contributed their sightings
and photos over the year, we sincerely hope that you will continue to do so in the next decade.

2020?

Christmas quiz answers.
So how did you get on?
Anyone solve all of them?
Some beautifully fiendish questions were served up this year and our thanks go to the Quiz Master.

Oxon Birding 2019 - Christmas Trivia Quiz – Answers

Identification
1. Kingfisher
2. Green Speculum
3. Corn Bunting
4. Projecting feet/toes
5. 19 Teal & 1 Green Winged Teal

Where
6. Bicester (Road names)
7. Sabine B&B
8. Burford (Pub)
9. College Coat of Arms (St Edmund Hall & Christchurch)

Cryptic
10. Brambling
11. Brent Goose
12. Siskin
13. Dotterel

Dodgy Connections
14. Film character names (Atticus Finch, Captain Jack Sparrow, Clarice Starling, Hudson Hawk)
15. Aircraft that have served in the RAF (Armstrong, Sopwith x2 and Hawker)
16. Golf (Par, Pin, Green, Wood, Shank)
17. Hobby/Subbuteo
18. Robins (Same nickname for all three football teams)

Trivia
19. Manx Shearwater
20. Wren
21. Black Guillemot & Long-tailed Duck
22. Thug (others are Marsh Harrier, Oystercatcher, Egyptian Goose, Dunnock)
23. Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
24. Clock (others are collective nouns for Wigeon, Teal, Nightingale, Wren)
25. Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus which translates as gull of the sea)
26. Red-backed Shrike
27. Corn Bunting & Ferruginous Duck
28. Jackdaw (24)
29. Ruddy Duck (Eradication programme)
30. 184