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Owls turn their heads in almost a circle because they cannot move their eyes. Their eyeballs are not round like ours. They are tubular.

New York City has the largest population of peregrine falcons in the world.

The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.

The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.

The American crow is found in every USA state except Hawaii.

There are more chickens in the world than people.

The average robin lives to be about 12.

Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs

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 forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

"Eat like a bird?" Many birds eat twice their weight a day.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

A group of chickens is called a peep.

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.

A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.

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.

Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

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