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We've already had an avian-based question, but this one's a little broader.

Name ten different species of bird that are seen in the canon. Representations of birds - such as the stone eagle in Red Rackham's Treasure - don't count: they must be real birds. Quote album and page (some birds appear in more than one book, so any valid one will do).

Bonus question: in one of the black and white books, a different sort of "bird" appears. Name it, and the album in which it appears.

Here are those birds:

gooses.......................America, p.38
pigeon (carrier-).........Blue Lotus, p.48
sparrows....................Secret of Unicorn, p.31
condor.......................Prisoners of the Sun, p.29
swan..........................Calculus Affair, p.21
green woodpecker...... Castafiore Emerald, p16
owl +parrot +magpie....Castafiore Emerald, p.62
hornbill (funny claws)...Flight 714, p.27

Total = 10 drawn real-life birds species!

Bonus question:
duck & hen.................Soviets, by the end.

Once again, Yamilah takes the crown!

There's a few others you could have had - seagulls in a few books (Crab, to name one), a cockerel in Sceptre, a robin in Calculus Affair - but I'm sure there's more beyond that. So Yamilah gets a point for the main question, and he gets to ask the next one.

And the bonus question - those two birds are indeed present in Soviets, but the "bird" I had in mind is a bird in name alone. A clue: it can travel very, very fast.

Is it the bird painted on the side of the fuselage of the bi-plane that takes Tintin back to Europe at the end of "Congo?"

In B&W The Blue Lotus, Tintin watches the movie report about Sir M. Campbell's speed record in 1931, on the 'Blue Bird' car
see http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/ogden11.htm

D'oh! I'm not very good at this...(Sigh)

Yamilah got it! Although if I may, I'd like to offer Ranko a point too as technically that answer's also correct. I'll let Ed decide as the offical score keeper.

I'll let Ed decide as the offical score keeper.

Seems fair enough to me. Yamilah gets two points and Ranko gets one.

Ed