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Kiwis are the only bird that hunts by smell.
A birds eye keeps everything in focus at all times.
Nine out of ten extinct species were birds.
Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span.
Pigeons have three sets of eyelids.
A homing pigeon will not be able to find its way home if a magnet it attached to their neck.
The speckles on a bird's egg are as individual as a fingerprint.
The upstroke of a bird's wing moves it forward, the downstroke only keeps it airborn.
Robins eat three miles of earth worms in a year.
The pouch on a pelican's beak can hold up to 2 gallons of water.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards
Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
The topknot that quails have is called a hmuh.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
