Fun online bird facts and trivia.
Fun online bird facts and trivia.
All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of
age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or
more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a
feathered flap.
Most
father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to
hatch.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. Fun online bird
facts and trivia.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a
vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African
Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with
varicolored yolks.
Lovebirds are small parakeets who live in pairs.
Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they
cannot move their eyes.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food"
except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the
parrot and can be fatal.
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird,
weighs up to 345 pounds.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up
to 220 miles per hour.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up,
down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe
are all birds that cannot walk.
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich.
Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the
thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
The most frequently seen birds at feeders across North America last
winter were the Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and American goldfinch,
along with downy woodpeckers, blue jays, mourning doves, black-capped
chickadees, house sparrows, northern cardinals and European starlings.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole
in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite
this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country
of origin.
In Massachusetts, it is illegal to feed ducks on Sunday between the
hours of 5am and 12pm while humming.
If an average man had a metabolism comparable to that of a
hummingbird he would have to eat 285 pounds of hamburger every day to
maintain his weight.
Bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea decorate their courting
grounds with everything from beetle wings to car keys.
Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct.
Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green
eggs.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
A group of chickens is called a peep.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.