The Competition
1. Students will be quizzed in the form of a test on the basic terms and concepts related to living things that fly including bats, birds, and insects.
2. Students will categorize a list of living things and characteristics of living things as a bat, bird, bug (insect), or other/neither.
3. Students will be asked to match the common name of an organism with its classification order of only those organisms and orders listed below in the General Content section.
3. Students will be asked focused questions related to history, habitat, diet, family life and conservation efforts of only the organisms listed below as Special Focus Content for this year's Olympiad.
4. Students will have 45 minutes to complete the written test. Time is not a scoring factor.

General Content & Study Resources
Event content will be restricted to the Chiroptera order and the following orders in the Aves and Insecta classes. The study resources below -- specific pages (not the entire site on which they are found) shall be used as study resources for all parts of this event.

Bats (Mammalia)
Chiroptera - Bats

https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/bat
https://www.moas.org/All-About-the-Bats-and-the-Birds--1-8314.html


Birds (Aves)
Passeriformes - Crows, mockingbirds, robins, sparrows, starlings, and warblers
Apodiformes - Hummingbirds
Piciforms - Toucans and woodpeckers
Psittaciformes - Parrots
Columbiforms - Doves and pigeons
Falconiformes - Eagles, falcons, hawks, and vultures
Galliformes - Chickens, pheasants, and quail
Anseriforms - Ducks, geese, and swans
Strigiforms - Owls
Sphenisciformes - Penguins
Struthioniformes - Ostriches

https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/birds
https://schoolbag.info/biology/living/living.files/image671.jpg

Insects (Insecta)
Lepidoptera - Butterfiles and moths
Coleoptera - Beetles
Orthoptera - Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids
Blattodea - Coackroaches and termites
Phasmatodea - Walkingsticks
Odonata - Dragonflies
Hymenoptera - Ants, bees, and wasps
Diptera - Flies

https://bugguide.net/node/view/222292
https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-insects-4125411

Special Focus Content - 2024
Participants shall study the following resources from which more detailed questions about the following specific topics will be asked.

Birds - Flamingos
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/flamingo

Bugs - Bees
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/bee

Scoring
The team with the most correct responses will be declared the winner. Ties will be broken with pre-determined tie-breaker questions.

Study resources updated for 2024.