Post by Feathered Kid on Mar 24, 2008 20:55:03 GMT 10
All parrots’ eggs are pure white.
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Hanging parrots are so called because they sleep hanging upside down like bats.
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Palm Cockatoos can crack brazil nuts in their beaks.
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Quaker Parrots, also build a communal nest of twigs in the open in S. America.
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The Kakapo from New Zealand is the only completely flightless parrot in the world. It has wings but no breast bone to anchor the large flight muscles. It is a large bird which feeds mostly at night and was once thought to be an owl.
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The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird. The largest known specimen of the species, a male caught and measured by the Antarctic research ship USNS Eltanin in the Tasman Sea in 1965, had a wingspan of 11 ft. 11 in.
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Hanging parrots are so called because they sleep hanging upside down like bats.
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Palm Cockatoos can crack brazil nuts in their beaks.
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Quaker Parrots, also build a communal nest of twigs in the open in S. America.
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The Kakapo from New Zealand is the only completely flightless parrot in the world. It has wings but no breast bone to anchor the large flight muscles. It is a large bird which feeds mostly at night and was once thought to be an owl.
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The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird. The largest known specimen of the species, a male caught and measured by the Antarctic research ship USNS Eltanin in the Tasman Sea in 1965, had a wingspan of 11 ft. 11 in.
