Monday, February 18, 2008

cool bird facts

1.Bats always turn left when they leave their caves.

2.Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!

3.The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the
London Zoo at the age of 82.

4.The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000
feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.

5.There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each
year in the US.

6.Birds save energy by flying in a "V" formation.

7.Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae
and brine shrimp.

8.The flying fox is a bat with a wing span over five feet.

courtesy : facts.googlepages.com

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