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- There are 109 species of birds that have become extinct.
- Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
- The maximum speed of a chicken is 9 miles per hour.
- Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age.
- The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
- It takes forty minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
- Feathers make up 10% of a bird's total body weight.
- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
- A group of chickens is called a peep.
- 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. - A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
- Chickens have 250-350 taste buds compared to humans having 9000.
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- By feeding hens certain dyes, they can be made to lay eggs with various colored yolks.
- Owls turn their heads in almost a circle because they cannot move their eyes. Their
eyeballs are not round like ours. They are tubular. - Parrots can eat virtually any common food except chocolate, avocados and fried food.
These are highly toxic and can be fatal. - Some species of rain forest birds migrate every summer from South America to Canada to breed.
- The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
- Female blackbirds are not black at all. They are a gray- brown gray.
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- The pouch of a pelican has a capacity to carry 12 quarts.
- An ostrich's eye is twice as large as its brain and weighs 3.3 pounds.
- Hummingbirds lay only 2 eggs during their entire lifetime.
- The largest woodpecker is the Mexican Imperial Woodpecker and it has a 23" bill.
- The female cuckoo bird destroys eggs in other bird's nests and replaces them with her own. The eggs are instinctively cared for by the mother of the destroyed eggs.
New York City has the largest population of peregrine falcons in the world. |
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