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Bird quiz: How much do you know about our feathered friends?

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Don't duck out on our bird quiz! Do you have a bird brain or are you as sharp as a raptor?

a puffin flies by the coast with its beak full of fish
A puffin flies over the U.K.'s Farne Islands with sand eels in its beak. (Image credit: STEVE ALLEN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images)

Birds have run, swum and flown around Earth since the dinosaur age, and they've hunted for food and raised their fuzzy chicks for generation after generation.

These feathery creatures now live on every continent, sometimes migrating thousands of miles to seasonal destinations. You can often hear their birdsong as they trill, chirp and whistle, thanks to the syrinx, a vocal organ that has two independent sound sources, unlike the single one found in humans.

Science has proved that some bird species are extraordinarily smart. For example, crows understand the concept of zero, and an African gray parrot named Alex had a vocabulary of over 100 words. Birds can also dance to a beat and use tools.

But how much do you actually know about birds? Take our quiz to find out.

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Laura Geggel
Laura Geggel
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Laura is the archaeology and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including paleontology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site on autism research. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle. Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU.

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