Amazing Anatomy
Type of bird with the best low-light vision.
What are owls?
What are Ruby Throated Hummingbirds?
(they live 3-5 years)
Bird that mimics the songs of other birds.
What is the Northern Mockingbird?
Fastest flier.
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
Bird that builds the largest nest.
What is the Bald Eagle?
Type of bird with the best sense of smell.
What is the Turkey Vulture? They can smell rotting meat from over 5,000 feet in the air.
The longest lived bird.
What is the California Condor? 60 years in the wild.
Degrees owls can turn their heads.
What is 280 degrees?
Heaviest bird in the sky.
What is the California Condor? 28 to 31 pounds!
Shortest egg incubation time.
What is 11 days?
Type of bird with the biggest bill.
What is the American White Pelican?
The most abundant bird.
What is the Red-Winged Blackbird? Population over 100,000,000.
Temperature birds maintain their bodies at.
What is 106 degrees F?
Only bird that can truly hover in place without a head wind.
What is the Hummingbird?
A baby bird uses this to break out of the shell.
What is an egg tooth?
This bird had 360 degree vision.
What is the American Woodcock?
The most common shorebird.
What is the Killdeer?
Type of bird that may not have hollow bones.
What are aquatic birds? etc. (loons, penguins, ratites, manakins)
Bird that spends the most time in the air.
What is the Magnificent Frigate bird? It can fly over 2 months without landing.
Bird that builds over 25 nests in order to attract a mate.
What is the Marsh Wren?
Number of cone types that birds have in their eyes.
What is four types of cones? Humans have three.
The bird with the strongest gizzard.
What is the Wild Turkey? it can crush whole acorns still in the shell in less than four hours!
Number of Gs a woodpecker experiences when pecking a tree.
What is 1,000 Gs? Astronauts experience 3.5 Gs during take off.
Bird that migrates the longest distance (50 - 60 thousand miles round trip).
What is the Artic Tern?
Bird that can dig a 3 - 10 foot tunnel into a river bank.
What is the Belted Kingfisher?