- Scientists that study birds are called ornithologists.
- There are about 10,000 species of birds around the world.
- The Kiwi of New Zealand is the only wingless bird.
- The world’s smallest egg belongs to a hummingbird.
- The worlds largest egg belongs to an ostrich.
- Some birds that don’t fly are penguins, ostriches and dodo birds.
- The only bird that can fly backwards are hummingbirds.
- The bird that can run the fastest are called ostriches.
- The smallest bird in North America is the Calliope Humming bird which on average is three inches.
- The heaviest bird in North America is called the Trumpeter Swan and weighs an average 40 or more pounds.
- There is about 10,000 known species in the world.
- Over 400 of those species are endangered.
- The only bird that can fly backward is a humming bird.
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- Chickens cannot swallow upside down.
- Birds do not sweat.
- The eyes of an ostrich are larger than their brain.
- There are over 350 species of parrots worldwide.
- Chickens are the most common bird on the planet.
- You can tell the type of diet of a bird by the shape of the beak.
- The most yolks ever found in a single egg is nine.
- Air sacs of a bird take up one- fifth of its body.
- Peacocks lay on average three to five eggs.
- Male Hummingbirds are usually smaller than females.
- The only wingless bird in the world is New Zealand’s Kiwi.
- The Archaeopteryx litographica was the earliest known bird and existed 150 million years ago.
- Birds do not have teeth but instead use their bills for chewing.
- A bird’s bones are hollow which help it to fly.
- About every ten minutes a humming bird eats.
- A flock of crows are called a “murder.”
- A flock of swallows are called a “gulp.”
- There are over thirty birds mentioned in the Bible.
- Whenever bats leave their cave they always turn left.
- A Hummingbird can hear better than humans.
- The average peacock weighs thirteen pounds.
- A Hummingbird weighs between two and twenty grams. (A penny weighs two point five grams.)
- Birds are warmblooded animals.
- Birds today do not have any teeth.
- Birds have a tongue but also has a bone in it.
- A majority of bids are insectivores, which means they eat insects.
- Barn Owls have the best sense of hearing.
- The bird with the most amount of feathers is the Tundra Swan bird with 25,216 feathers.
- The bird with the least amount of feathers is the Ruby- throated Hummingbird with 940 feathers.
- There are over 1000 species of bats.
- On an average bats live over twenty years.
- Seventy-five percent of birds die before they are six month old.
- Flamingos get their pink coat because most of their diets consist of shrimp.
- The average peacock lives about twenty years.
- There are more chickens on earth than there are people.
- On average chickens run nine miles an hour.
