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	<title>Wingbeat: The WINGS Birding Blog &#187; Trivia</title>
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		<title>December Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/12/december-trivia-question-3/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/12/december-trivia-question-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What group of familiar birds was once assigned to the genus Urinator&#8211;and why? Post your answer as a comment here at The Wingbeat: The WINGS Birding Blog. The first correct answer, and the wittiest (yet still tasteful) response, will win their authors a WINGS cap, which they can wear with a pride shared by last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October Trivia Question: An Answer</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/11/october-trivia-question-an-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/11/october-trivia-question-an-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We asked: You encounter a flock of exactly 100 small sandpipers; careful inspection proves that they are all of the same species. On a whim, you count the toes, coming up with an absolutely accurate total of 602. What is the species? Famously, the only small sandpiper lacking a hind toe is  Sanderling. Thus, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 2010 Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/10/october-2010-trivia-question/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/10/october-2010-trivia-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s stretch our mathematical muscles this month: You encounter a flock of exactly 100 small sandpipers; careful inspection proves that they are all of the same species. On a whim, you count the toes, coming up with an absolutely accurate total of 602. What is the species? Leave your answer as a comment below. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September Trivia Question: Our Answer</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/10/september-trivia-question-our-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/10/september-trivia-question-our-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We asked: What is the connection between Red-winged Blackbird, Song Sparrow, and Napoleon? We&#8217;d expected the Californians to jump on this one. Both the Modesto Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia mailliardi and the Bicolored Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus mailliardorum are West Coast subspecies named for California&#8217;s Mailliard brothers (in the case of the sparrow, for Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/09/september-trivia-question-2/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/09/september-trivia-question-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Department of Small Worlds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s go for something historical this time: What is the connection between Red-winged Blackbird, Song Sparrow, and Napoleon? The winning answer will draw the connection as elegantly as possible, in the fewest possible steps&#8211;and to make it a little more challenging, the answer may not mention the  emperor&#8217;s (illegitimate) nephew Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Leave your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trivia Question: The Answer</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/09/trivia-question-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/09/trivia-question-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our August question was a hard one, I thought: Which breeding landbird of the eastern US and Canada molts its primaries in the sequence 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-10-9? But not too hard for Grant McCreary or for this month&#8217;s winner, Dick Cannings, both of whom identified Ruby-throated Hummingbird as the species in question. And why do ruby-throats (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/08/august-trivia-question-2/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/08/august-trivia-question-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we asked: Which automobile manufacturer used the silhouettes of six swallows in its emblem? The first right answer this time came from Brenda Best , who correctly identified Cadillac as the culprit. In their latest incarnation, the birds more closely resembled ducks than anything else, but in their source&#8211;the probably spurious arms of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>June Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/06/june-trivia-question-2/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/06/june-trivia-question-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Which automobile manufacturer&#8217;s emblem included the silhouettes of six swallows? Leave your answer as a comment on this post!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Answer to May Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/06/answer-to-may-trivia-question/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/06/answer-to-may-trivia-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we asked: What North American breeding bird has an English name that commemorates a site in the southeastern US and a scientific name that commemorates a site in the northwestern US? Alexander Wilson first encountered the bird we now call Savannah Sparrow near that city in Georgia. The species had been described in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>May 2010 Trivia Question</title>
		<link>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/05/may-2010-trivia-question/</link>
		<comments>http://wingsbirds.com/blog/2010/05/may-2010-trivia-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 13:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you think? Leave your answer as a comment below&#8211;the first correct answer, and the best incorrect answer, will win a WINGS cap. What North American breeding bird has an English name that commemorates a site in the southeastern US and a scientific name that commemorates a site in the northwestern US?]]></description>
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