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Musical Birds - COMPLETED

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Below is a list of musical artists that have produced songs with a type of bird in the title. I have given the name of the artist, the number of words in the title & the number of letters in each word in the following format "Artist" - "3W" "----/-----/---" ........... see if you can guess the title of the song & what the bird type is?

1. Prince - 3 Words ----/-----/--- When Doves Cry (memory man)
2. Fleetwood Mac - 1 Word --------- Albatross (Cogs123)
3. The Beatles - 1 Word --------- Blackbird (jagwheels)
4. Steve Millar Band - 4 Words ---/----/--/----- Fly Like An Eagle (PW in Polemi)
5. Manfred Mann - 2 Words ------/-------- Pretty Flamingo (aphrodite)
6. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - 2 words -----/------ Stool Pigeon (The Aquila)
7. Rossini - 3 words ---/--------/------ The Thieving Magpie (surreyboy)
8. Iron Maiden - 3 Words -----/------/---- Where Eagles Dare (memory man)
9. ELO - 1 Word -------- Bluebird (jagwheels)
10. David Bowie - 1 Word ---- Dodo (Dominic)
11. ABBA - 1 Word ----- Eagle (aphrodite)
12. David Gray - 1 Word ----- Gulls (Cogs123)
13. Katy Perry - 2 Words -----------/--------- Hummingbird Heartbeat (The Aquila)
14. Dolly Parton - 2 words ------/------- Little Sparrow (PW in Polemi)
15. Barclay James Harvest - 2 Words -------/---- Mocking Bird (surreybird)
16. The Everly Bros - 6 Words --/---/-----/--/-/----------- On The Wings Of A Nightingale (aphrodite)
17. Bobby Day - 2 Words -------/----- Rockin' Robin (jwade)
18. Bruce Hornsby - 2 Words ----/---- Swan Song (panoscouse)
19. Wishbone Ash - 2 Words ---/----- The Raven (panoscouse)
20. Iggy Pop - 1 Word ------- Vulture (surreyboy)



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I'll start...

No. 1 When doves fly. - DOVE
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3 - Blackbird
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2. Albatross
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It is about learning to Dance in the Rain
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Sorry MM, correct bird but wrong title ............. Jagwheels & Cogs123 are both correct!


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5. Pretty Flamingo
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20 - cockatoo
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12. Gulls.
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10. David Bowie Dodo
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Congratulations to aphrodite, Dominic & Cogs123 but not jagwheels ..... no cockatoo in this quiz unfortunately!


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OK I cocked up :oops:

9 - Bluebird
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17,Rockin Robin
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jagwheels & jwade correct for nos. 9 & 17 ............. still waiting for the correct title of no. 1 though! :)


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1. When doves cry
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Correct MM
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16. On the wings of a nightingale - The Everly Brothers
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4. Fly Like an Eagle
14. Little Sparrow
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7. The thieving magpie
20. Vulture
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Congrats to aphrodite, PW & surreyboy ............ all correct!


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8. Where Eagles Dare
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