For the Birds!
This is the fastest flying bird on Earth.
What is the peregrine falcon?
This bird’s beak is extra strong to help it drill into trees.
What is the woodpecker?
This bird’s feathers turn pink because of the shrimp and algae they eat.
What is the flamingo?
True or false: An owl can’t move its eyes.
True. (It moves its head back and forth to get a good look around.)
This is the only bird that can fly backwards.
What is the hummingbird?
True or false: When a bird first hatches, it has not yet developed a beak.
False. Very, very false. But they may not have many feathers yet!
True or false: Birds have teeth.
False. Birds are toothless animals.
This is the smallest living bird in the world.
What is the bee hummingbird?
This bird lays the largest eggs of all birds.
What is the ostrich?
This group of birds all have sharp, hooked beaks for tearing through flesh.
What are raptors/birds of prey?
True or false: Owls swallow their prey whole.
True. Look out, field mice!
True or false: Most hummingbirds weigh less than a nickel.
True
One of these is the shape of a flamingo's nest: a bowl, a volcano, a plate, or they don't make nests.
What is a volcano?
True or false: The sword-billed hummingbird has a bill almost as long as its body.
False (a sword-billed hummingbird's bill is actually longer than its body!)
This bird can eat only when its head is upside down.
What is the flamingo?
This bird has the largest eyes of any land animal.
What is the ostrich?
(Here's lookin' at you, kid.)
This is the only continent where owls are NOT found.
What is Antarctica?
This is another name for a flamingo's beak.
What is a bill?
Ostriches swallow stones to help with this.
What is digestion/breaking up food?
True or false: A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
True.
Rat-a-tat-tat!