Few interesting facts about Birds

  • Ostriches dug in sand for water.
  • Humming birds heart beat more than 1200/min and heart beats of birds in rest nearly 400/min and it can cross 1000/min during flying.
  • If you want to make Ostrich egg hard by boiling you have to boiled it for more than 2 hrs.
  • Penguins can jump more than 5 ft.
  • Eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with him.
  • California condors can fly 9 miles with out flapping wings.
  • Largest cell in world is Ostrich Yolk.
  • Naru, an island in western pacific , export bird drops which is one of the main source of income.
  • Chicken waste in it’s lifetime can light up a bulb for more than 6 hrs.
  • Worlds smallest egg is humming bird’s egg. and largest egg is Ostrich’s egg.
  • Till now chicken egg’s has max. no of yolk is 9.
  • Oldest bird ever discovered is Archaeopteryx and it lived 1500 million yrs ago.
  • Bird’s body temperature is hotter than human by 8 degree and it’s use breathing air to col down it’s body and it has not any system for sweating.
  • Canaries can regenerate brain cells.
  • Madagscar, elephant bird , which is now extinct laid egg more than 25 pounds.
  • Chicken, ducks , seagulls and etc. precocial birds are able to walk after hatching but unfortunately
    altricial birds (owls, woodpeckers and other small birds) that need extreme care from their parents for survival.
  • 80 days time needs for hatching in The Royal Albatross’ eggs.
  • Pelican’s pouch can hold upto 30 pounds water and fish.
  • Kiwi is the world’s only wingless bird found in New Zealand.