2007-03-12 22:58:13 · 4 answers · asked by V. Manohar 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes. ...
here are somemore funfacts....It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
"Eat like a bird?" Many birds eat twice their weight a day.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
There is a type of parrot in New Zealand (the Kea) that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows and windshield wipers.
The top knot that quails have is called a hmuh.
New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
A penguin only has sex twice a year.
The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese in the air is skein.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell.
It takes 42 days for an ostrich egg to hatch.
The average robin lives to be about 12 years old.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
If your hen chicken is average, she will lay 227 eggs a year.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
Bird eggs come in a wide variety of sizes. The largest egg from a living bird belongs to the ostrich. It is more than 2,000 times larger than the smallest bird egg, which is produced by the hummingbird. Ostrich eggs are about 7.1 inches long, 5.5 inches wide and typically weigh 2.7 pounds. Hummingbird eggs are half an inch long, a third of an inch wide and weigh half a gram, or less than a fifth of an ounce.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
Female chickens, or hens, need about 24 to 26 hours to produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and others rest up to 10 days.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
Lovebirds are small parakeets which live in pairs. Male and female lovebirds look alike, but most other male birds have brighter colors than the females.
Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The most frequently seen birds at feeders across North America most winters are the Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and American goldfinch, along with downy woodpeckers, blue jays, mourning doves, black-capped chickadees, house sparrows, northern cardinals and European starlings.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
Big Ben (the famous clock) was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long.
The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.
Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from sunshine.
Q: Is the lifespan of a robin: (a) 2 years; (b) 12 years; or (c) 22 years?
A: 12 years.
Q: Your rooster was born deaf. To teach him to crow, should you: (a) send him to a school for hearing-impaired poultry; (b) while he watches your lips, repeat the phrase "****-a-doodle-do" 24 times a day; or (c) do nothing?
A: Fret not. Even roosters born deaf can still crow without training.
Q: Your canary has quit singing. Should you: (a) never play another Yoko Ono album; (b) get him a canary friend; or (c) put him next to a running water faucet?
A: Canary musicologists recommend #c.
Q: Do chickens go to bed early because: (a) there’s nothing on TV that chickens like; (b) they get up early; or (c) chickens can’t see at night?
A: Chickens have really terrible night vision.
Q: Has duck research at Indiana State University shown that sleeping ducks: (a) snore; (b) keep one eye open; or (c) quack in their sleep?
A: Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes.
Q: According to research at the University of Chicago, not only do birds dream, but they dream about: (a) other birds; (b) worms; or (c) songs they sing during the day?
A: Birds dream about their songs, have dream rehearsals, and sing the same songs better the next day.
Q: Your baby turkeys won't eat. Should you: (a) set an example by pecking at the mash yourself; (b) call a pediaturkeytrician; or (c) drop some marbles into the feed?
A: Turkey farmers say #c works. The baby turkeys will peck at the marbles and accidentally get enough mash to stay alive until they learn to eat.
Q: Which birds have been trained to tend sheep: (a) turkeys; (b) geese; or (c) guineas?
A: Geese.
2007-03-15 23:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by melovedogs 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both eyes open, They never really trust those other ones hanging around the edges of their flock.
2007-03-13 06:07:23 · answer #2 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They can close their both the eyes. Because they are protected by the others.
2007-03-13 06:01:43 · answer #3 · answered by Expression 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a good nights sleep.
2007-03-13 15:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by Theresa A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋