Chapter 12: True or False

A vibrant illustration of various migratory birds in flight over a scenic landscape, showcasing their diverse colors and patterns against a bright sky.

Bird Migration Insights Quiz

Test your knowledge about the fascinating world of bird migration! This quiz delves into various aspects of migratory behavior, including parental care, foraging strategies, and navigation techniques among birds. Challenge yourself and discover how much you really know about these remarkable avian journeys!

Multiple choice questions
Learn about migratory patterns
Understand the ecological significance of migration

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by FlyingFalcon27

Parental activity around a nest, song rates of males, or contents of other birds’ nests are indirect cues that other birds use to choose where to settle for breeding.

True

False

Not all temperate zone woodpeckers migrate. Those that do, primarily eat sap or dig for invertebrates in the ground.

True

False

For birds that migrate long distances across water, predation is their biggest threat.

True

False

Vagrants are not likely to make it to their breeding grounds successfully.

True

False

If males of a species care for the young after hatching, they are more likely to leave the breeding grounds after the females.

True

False

Some birds migrate in a pattern that is not oriented north-south, instead moving up and down mountainsides to reach favorable breeding sites or seasonal sources of food.

True

False

Migratory birds always follow the same routes.

True

False

Zugunruhe is migratory restlessness.

True

False

Among similar species in the same habitat, some may migrate while others do not.

True

False

All migratory birds migrate at night.

True

False

Whether an individual bird stays or disperses from the area where it was raised, or moves somewhere else, depends on which strategy is more likely to ensure its survival and reproduction.

True

False

In general, few migratory birds return to the same place they bred the previous year.

True

False

Substantial powers of migration are likely shared by all birds.

True

False

In experiments captive-reared Indigo Buntings memorized a map of the stars to aid in navigation.

True

False

All migratory birds use distinct migratory flyways.

True

False

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