Bird GK Questions for Kids (with Answers)

Question 1

What is the national bird of India?

Accepted Answer

Peacock. Only the male, the peacock, has the long, colourful tail feathers; the female is called a peahen.

Question 2

What do birds have on their bodies that no other living animal has?

Accepted Answer

Feathers. Feathers keep birds warm, help them fly and help them show off to each other.

Question 3

What do birds build to lay their eggs in?

Accepted Answer

A nest. The tailorbird stitches leaves together with plant fibres to make its nest.

Question 4

Which colourful bird is famous for copying human speech?

Accepted Answer

Parrot. Parrots and mynas can copy words and sounds they hear often.

Question 5

Which is the largest bird in the world?

Accepted Answer

Ostrich. The ostrich cannot fly, but it can run at about 70 km per hour.

Question 6

Which bird hoots at night?

Accepted Answer

Owl. Owls cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads instead, up to about 270 degrees.

Question 7

Which bird cannot fly but is a great swimmer?

Accepted Answer

Penguin. Penguins use their wings like flippers to “fly” through the water.

Question 8

What is a baby bird called?

Accepted Answer

A chick. A chick breaks out of its egg using a tiny bump on its beak called an egg tooth.

Question 9

Which part of its body does a bird use to pick up food?

Accepted Answer

Its beak. A beak is shaped for the food a bird eats; a parrot’s strong, hooked beak can crack hard nuts and seeds.

Question 10

Which white bird is a symbol of peace?

Accepted Answer

Dove. A white dove carrying an olive branch is a symbol of peace around the world.

Question 11

On which date is World Sparrow Day celebrated?

Accepted Answer

20 March. World Sparrow Day began in 2010 to help protect the house sparrow, whose numbers have fallen in many cities.

Question 12

Which tiny bird can fly backwards?

Accepted Answer

Hummingbird. Hummingbirds beat their wings so fast that they make a humming sound.

Question 13

What do we call it when birds travel a long way every year to find food and warmer weather?

Accepted Answer

Migration. Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas to spend the winter in India.

Question 14

Which famous bird park in Rajasthan welcomes many migratory birds in winter?

Accepted Answer

Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. Keoladeo, once called the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Question 15

Which bird weaves a hanging nest out of strips of grass?

Accepted Answer

Baya weaver. The male baya weaver builds the nest, and the female inspects it before she chooses him.

Question 16

Which Indian bird is known for its loud “kuhu” call in summer?

Accepted Answer

Asian koel. The koel lays its eggs in a crow’s nest and lets the crows raise its chicks.

Question 17

Which bird is the fastest when diving through the air?

Accepted Answer

Peregrine falcon. When it dives for prey, a peregrine falcon can go faster than 300 km per hour.

Question 18

Which bird is the national bird of the United States of America?

Accepted Answer

Bald eagle. The bald eagle is not really bald; it has white feathers on its head.

Question 19

Which bird lays the largest eggs of any living bird?

Accepted Answer

Ostrich. One ostrich egg weighs about as much as two dozen hen’s eggs.

Question 20

Why are many of a bird’s bones hollow?

Accepted Answer

To keep it light for flying. Hollow bird bones have thin supports inside that keep them strong.

Question 21

Which brightly coloured bird dives into water to catch fish?

Accepted Answer

Kingfisher. The shape of the kingfisher’s beak inspired the nose of a Japanese bullet train, making it quieter.

Question 22

What is the young of a duck called?

Accepted Answer

Duckling. Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, which is usually their mother.

Question 23

Which is the smallest bird in the world?

Accepted Answer

Bee hummingbird. The bee hummingbird lives in Cuba and is only about 5 to 6 cm long.

Question 24

Which Indian scientist is known as the “Birdman of India”?

Accepted Answer

Salim Ali. Salim Ali was an ornithologist, a scientist who studies birds, and wrote the popular “The Book of Indian Birds”.

Question 25

Which critically endangered bird of Rajasthan’s grasslands is one of the heaviest flying birds?

Accepted Answer

Great Indian Bustard. It is the state bird of Rajasthan, and only a small number are left in the wild.

Question 26

Which seabird has the largest wingspan of any living bird?

Accepted Answer

Wandering albatross. Its wings can stretch more than 3 metres from tip to tip.

Question 27

Which bird is famous for flying between the Arctic and the Antarctic every year?

Accepted Answer

Arctic tern. By chasing summer at both ends of the Earth, the Arctic tern sees more daylight than almost any other animal.

Question 28

Which flightless bird from New Zealand lays a huge egg compared to its body size?

Accepted Answer

Kiwi. A kiwi egg can weigh about one-fifth as much as the mother bird.

Question 29

What is it called when birds shed old feathers and grow new ones?

Accepted Answer

Moulting. Most birds moult at least once a year to replace worn-out feathers.

Question 30

Which Indian bird is the tallest flying bird in the world?

Accepted Answer

Sarus crane. Sarus cranes usually stay with the same partner for life, and the sarus is the state bird of Uttar Pradesh.

Bird GK Questions for Kids (with Answers)

Easy birds GK questions (ages 5–7)

Medium birds GK questions (ages 8–10)

Hard birds GK questions (ages 11–13)

Keep learning birds

How to use these questions at home

More GK questions for kids