Canadian Wildlife Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which large, bottom-feeding fish of the Great Lakes and big rivers, covered in bony plates rather than scales, can live more than a hundred years and take twenty years to mature?

Question 2

Which large white owl of the Arctic tundra, which sometimes moves far south in winter in numbers, is the official bird of Quebec and appeared on an old Canadian fifty-dollar note?

Question 3

What share of the world's polar bears live in Canada, spread across the Arctic coast and islands and the shores of Hudson Bay?

Question 4

Which orange-and-black butterfly makes a multi-generation journey between southern Canada and the mountains of central Mexico, and has been assessed as endangered?

Question 5

Which tundra grouse, which moults to pure white in winter and grows feathers over its toes as snowshoes, is the official bird of Nunavut?

Question 6

Which tiny woodland frog, marked with a dark X on its back, produces the shrill, sleigh-bell chorus that is one of the first signs of spring across eastern Canada?

Question 7

The collapse of which fish stock off Newfoundland led to a moratorium in 1992 that put tens of thousands of people out of work?

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About Canadian Wildlife

How well do you know the wildlife of Canada -- the mammals, birds, fish, marine life, reptiles and amphibians of the boreal forest, the tundra, the prairies, the mountains and the coasts? This quiz has eighty questions in four packs of twenty, written the way people search: which animal is on the nickel, how many polar bears live in Canada, why do lynx and hare numbers rise and fall together, which whale has a tusk, which bird was almost chosen as the national bird.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the figures, the range and the background.

The first pack covers the iconic mammals and animal symbols: the beaver, the moose, the lynx and the snowshoe hare, the wolverine, the bears, the caribou and bison, the muskox and pronghorn, and the sea otter. The second pack is birds: the loon and the Canada goose, the whisky-jack, the snowy owl and bald eagle, the Atlantic puffin and the chickadee, the whooping crane and trumpeter swan, and the peregrine falcon. The third pack is fish and other cold-blooded and marine life: Atlantic cod and Pacific salmon, the sturgeon and Arctic char, the narwhal, beluga and right whale, the orca and the harp seal, the leatherback turtle, the massasauga and the Narcisse snakes, and the freeze-tolerant wood frog. The fourth pack covers habitats and conservation: the boreal forest and the tundra, the endangered prairie and its swift fox and ferret, the Carolinian zone, COSEWIC and species at risk, the great auk and passenger pigeon, invasive species from the sea lamprey to the pine beetle, white-nose syndrome in bats, the spirit bear, Canadian dog and horse breeds, and the woodland caribou.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph of a habitat or scene tied to the question, chosen so it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.