- The Arctic Tern, which is a small bird, can fly a round trip from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird.
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- In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998.
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- A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs.
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- The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment.
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- A Siberian Red Crane bird is the world's oldest known bird. The bird died in 1988 and lived to be 82 years old.
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- Over 100 million birds die annually by crashing into glass windows in the United States.
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- A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
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- All of the Peking ducks in the United States are descendents from three ducks and one drake imported to Long Island, New York in 1873.
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- In the United States, turkeys are mostly raised in California.
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- The bright skin that hangs from a turkey's neck is called a "wattle."
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- The fastest bird in the world is the Peregrine Falcon, which can reach speeds in excess of two hundred miles per hour.
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- The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.
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- Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp.
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- The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
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- Parrots cannot eat chocolate because it is poisonous to their body.
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- Some birds have been know to put ants into their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid, which kills parasites.
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- Turkeys can have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys dropped dead because of heart attacks.
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- Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak.
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