May 2015 All Things Birds Contest..winners Announced

Brown Booby is a large seabird.

The song of a European wren is made of more than 700 different notes a minute and can be heard 1,650 feet (500 m) away.

Woodpecker

you can teach birds to talk

To make them more lightweight, most birds do not have bladders to store urine. Rather than producing liquid urine to get rid of wastes, they produce a white, pasty substance. However, while an ostrich does not have a bladder like a mammalian bladder, it is unique among birds because it does have a complete separation of feces and urine.

THE STATE BIRD FOR ALASKA IS .... THE " WILLOW PTARMIGAN " , ALSO
CALLED THE " WILLOW GROUSE."

Cardinals are beautiful

Birdman of Alcatraz

The Goldfinch is our Washington State bird..

Canary

In a carefully researched study, scientists in Spain discovered that around 40 percent of European White Stork nestlings abandoned their parents partway through development and promptly snuck into a neighboring stork family’s nest. The motivation? Chicks that were not completely satisfied with their parents hunting skills were running away from home in hopes of finding a better meal with the neighborhoods. The grass is always greener on the other side…

BIRDS HAVE HOLLOW BONES , WHICH HELPS THEM FLY

love birds like to be with lovers

hummers by hummingbirds

Have you heard? BIRD is the word......... ba ba ba bird bird bird, bird is the word