{"id":291,"date":"2009-02-23T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/competitions\/flying-over-the-pyrenees-trivia\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T12:18:30","slug":"flying-over-the-pyrenees-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/competitions\/flying-over-the-pyrenees-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying over the Pyrenees trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flying over the Pyrenees<\/strong> Trivia<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pyrenees-cover-front.jpg?resize=157%2C227\" alt=\"Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains - front cover\" height=\"227\" \/>\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pyrenees-cover-back.jpg?resize=158%2C226\" alt=\"Flying over the Pyrenees standing on the plains - back\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facts and things taken from &#8220;Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains&#8221;. Do you know the answers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 1 &#8211; the Wallcreeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pelarroques.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing of Wallcreeper in flight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. The <strong>world distribution of the Wallcreeper<\/strong> stretches from:<\/p>\n<p>i) The Pyrenees in the West to the Himalayas in the east<br \/>\nii) The Pyrenees in the west to Georgia in the east<br \/>\niii) The Cantabrian mountains in the west to the Himalayas in the east<br \/>\niv) The Alps in the west to the Balkans in the east<\/p>\n<p>2. If you were to drive from Roses on the <strong>northeast coast of Catalonia<\/strong> to the <strong>Barranco del Infierno<\/strong> to look for a Wallcreeper, how long would the drive take you approximately?<\/p>\n<p>3. The translation of <strong>a Chinese name for the Wallcreeper<\/strong> would be:<\/p>\n<p>i) Rock scratcher<br \/>\nii) Rock flower<br \/>\niii) Rock climber<br \/>\niv) Rock butterfly<\/p>\n<p>4, In which <strong>European country did the Wallcreeper first appear on a stamp<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>i) Romania<br \/>\nii) Switzerland<br \/>\niii) Austria<br \/>\niv) Andorra<\/p>\n<p>5. Where was the <strong>third record of Wallcreeper in Britain<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>i) Cheshire Gorge<br \/>\nii) St.Catherine\u2019s Point, Isle of Wight<br \/>\niii) Portland Bill<br \/>\niv) Winchelsea<\/p>\n<p>6. What happened to the <strong>Wallcreeper recorded at Winchelsea in 1886<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>i) It was observed flying away to the west<br \/>\nii) It collided with the lighthouse and died<br \/>\niii) It was shot<br \/>\niv) It is not known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying over the Pyrenees Trivia \u00a0 Facts and things taken from &#8220;Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains&#8221;. Do you know the answers? Chapter 1 &#8211; the Wallcreeper 1. The world distribution of the Wallcreeper stretches from: i) The Pyrenees in the West to the Himalayas in the east ii) The Pyrenees in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-4H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}