Spring lamb – photo by Tim Pokorny at https://www.flickr.com/photos/soppyfrog/3931666786
Dear Readers, the redoubtable Fran and Bobby Freelove were the only players this week, but they got 15 out of 15, so congratulations and well done! As you might have seen from my post on Friday, I am now in Canada, so tomorrow I’m going to run one of my old quizzes, mainly because last time around nobody got it perfectly right :-). Let’s see how we get on this time….
Rabbits (and hares 🙂 )
1) C) Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus)
2) E) Cape Hare (Lepus capensis)
3) B) European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
![Photo Four by By United States Bureau of Land Management - [1], [2] (Archived link - [3]), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=188133](https://i0.wp.com/bugwomanlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/4-1.jpg?resize=286%2C257&ssl=1)
4) A) Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis)
5) D) European Hare (Lepus europaeus)
Chicks
6) H) Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
7) I) Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
8) J) Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
9) G) Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
10) F) Woodpigeon (Calumba palumbus)
Lambs
11) N) Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)
12) M) Mouflon (Ovis gmelini)
13) L) Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra)
14) K) Rocky Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)
15) O) Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex)
Photo Credits
Photo One By D. Gordon E. Robertson – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24071225
Photo Two By Shah Jahan – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37679801
Photo Three By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8283824
Photo Four By United States Bureau of Land Management – [1], [2] (Archived link – [3]), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=188133
Photo Five by By Jean-Jacques Boujot from Paris, France – , CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37547558
Photo Six is public domain
Photo Seven by Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Eight is public domain
Photo Nine By Artemy Voikhansky – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40090094
Photo Ten by nottsexminer, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Eleven by By Philipp Haupt from Zug, Switzerland – , CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11249430
Photo Twelve by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard from https://www.flickr.com/photos/blacktigersdream/48624971158
Photo Thirteen from https://wilderness-society.org/keep-5-of-slovakia-wilderness/slovakia-wilderness-0670/
Photo Fifteen is Public Domain