Canadian Wildlife Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which small national park, a sandspit reaching into Lake Erie at Canada's southern tip, is one of North America's premier spots to watch spring songbird migration and the autumn monarch gathering?

Question 2

Which small northern fox turns from brown or grey in summer to thick white fur in winter and can survive temperatures below minus 40 without shivering?

Question 3

Which large, slow-growing char of deep, cold, well-oxygenated lakes, a top native predator of the Great Lakes, was nearly wiped out there by overfishing and an invasive parasite?

Question 4

Which powerful, wide-ranging owl with prominent ear tufts, an early nester that will take skunks and other large prey, is the provincial bird of Alberta?

Question 5

Which large Arctic marine mammal, with long tusks in both sexes and a bristly moustache, hauls out in dense groups on ice and remote shores in the Canadian Arctic?

Question 6

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 7

Which bold grey bird of the boreal forest, also known as the whisky-jack or camp robber, was chosen in a 2016 magazine poll as an unofficial national bird?

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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.