--- title: City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / City birds: sparrows, starlings, swift… # City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings The 16 questions of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 84 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t1/) — «found a swift on the pavement, it can't fly off, prob dying» What is the best thing to do? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t2/) — Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot. How many toes, and which way can they point? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t3/) — Count them: a peregrine pair has 4 chicks on a cathedral ledge. How many birds on the ledge, and how many legs? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t4/) — If each starling copies only about 7 neighbours, how does the whole cloud turn together? — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t5/) — «a car alarm's going off but there's no car, wtf» What could it be? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t6/) — Why would a poison on fields harm a falcon that never ate a plant? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t7/) — In the game Angry Birds, birds are flung from a catapult to fly fast. Which real bird is the fastest animal on Earth? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t8/) — «sparrows are everywhere, no way they're in trouble» What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t9/) — How could a new house be built to welcome sparrows and swifts? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t10/) — «all the crows are screaming round a dead crow, are they having a funeral?» What do scientists think? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t11/) — Why can a few animals brought to a new place become a huge problem, like starlings in America? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/t12/) — Why might a robin sing under a streetlight at night in a city? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/e1/) — Identify the mechanism by which a murmuration of starlings is coordinated. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the decline and recovery of the peregrine falcon? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the common swift. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/e4/) — Ascertain the principal reason for which birds in cities frequently sing at a higher pitch or volume. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [368. 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