What Do You Know About The Madagascar Pochard

10 Questions | By Jaksiboy | Updated: Nov 10, 2022 | Attempts: 122

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What Do You Know About The Madagascar Pochard - Quiz

Believed to be extinct until its rediscovery in 2006, the Madagascar pochard has the unfortunate distinction of being the world’s rarest duck species, take a quiz and learn about this specie

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1.

Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest bird will not be able to thrive without a new?
- A.
  
  Water
- B.
  
  Vegetation
- C.
  
  Wetland home
- D.
  
  Habitat
2.

What does statistics put their chicks mortality rate at?
- A.
  
  90%
- B.
  
  95%
- C.
  
  92%
- D.
  
  96%
3.

Madagascar pochard is an extremely rare diving duck of the genus?
- A.
  
  Plethora
- B.
  
  Insecta
- C.
  
  Aves
- D.
  
  Aythya
4.

What is the scientific name given to Madagascar pochard?
- A.
  
  Aythya Unota
- B.
  
  Aytha Innotata
- C.
  
  Aythya Inotata
- D.
  
  Aythya inno
5.

Madagascar pochard population is rounded up to?
- A.
  
  70 individuals
- B.
  
  100 individuals
- C.
  
  95 individuals
- D.
  
  80 individuals
6.

This discovery account was conducted and written by Webb and Delacour’s in
- A.
  
  1950s and 1970s
- B.
  
  1910s and 1919
- C.
  
  1920s and 1930s
- D.
  
  None of the above
7.

According to the two author, the birds were still relatively common at?
- A.
  
  Lake Michigan
- B.
  
  St. Louis
- C.
  
  Lake Isle
- D.
  
  Lake Alaotra
8.

Where were the species last seen?
- A.
  
  19 June 1950
- B.
  
  9 June 1960
- C.
  
  9 July 1960
- D.
  
  9 June, 1961
9.

The last confirmed sighting of the species was at Lake Alaotra on the central plateau of?
- A.
  
  Island
- B.
  
  Thailand
- C.
  
  Singapore
- D.
  
  Madagascar
10.

25 adult birds had been counted in the wild, in the year?
- A.
  
  2000
- B.
  
  2008
- C.
  
  2007
- D.
  
  1999