Famous Birds
This big yellow bird lives on Sesame Street.
Who is Big Bird?
The fastest bird in the world (and fastest animal on earth).
What is the peregrine falcon?
This bird says “caw, caw!”
What is a crow?
This bird can sleep while flying.
What is the frigatebird or swift?
What is a rooster?
This speedy Looney Tunes bird always outruns Wile E. Coyote.
Who is the Road Runner?
The only bird that can fly backward.
What is the hummingbird?
This bird is known for hooting at night.
What is an owl?
This bird can rotate its head up to 270 degrees.
What is the owl?
This bird would make a terrible office coworker because it steals anything shiny.
What is a magpie?
This owl is known for asking, “How many licks does it take…?”
Who is the Tootsie Pop Owl?
This bird has the largest wingspan of any living species.
What is the wandering albatross?
This songbird can mimic car alarms and cell phone ringtones.
What is the mockingbird?
This bird can see ultraviolet light.
What are kestrels (or many raptors)?
This bird never comes to meetings because it’s always “flocking off.”
What is a flamingo?
This Disney parrot accompanied Mary Poppins.
Who is Polly the Parrot?
This bird is known for its incredible memory of where it hides thousands of seeds.
What is the Clark’s nutcracker?
This colorful parrot species is famous for mimicking human speech.
What is a macaw?
These birds can drink seawater due to specialized glands.
What are albatrosses or seabirds?
This bird would definitely be the office drama starter—it literally screams all day.
What is a peacock?
his mythical bird is said to rise from its ashes.
What is the Phoenix?
The tallest living bird in the world.
What is the ostrich?
This Australian bird’s call sounds like laughter.
What is a kookaburra?
This bird migrates 44,000+ miles every year—the longest migration of any animal.
What is the Arctic tern?
This word describes what birds do when they lift off and go somewhere new—but it’s also what our coworker is doing on her next adventure.
What is “taking flight”?
—or—
What is “flying the nest”?