Hey! This is 19 Interesting Wood Duck Facts
Wood Ducks are medium sized ducks with some extraordinary colors and patterns, they can be found throughout most of the eastern half of the United States. As with most other types of birds females are not as brightly colored as males, but they are always …
The 6 Types of Birds and What Makes Each One Special
There are over 10,000 different species of birds on earth, each one different from the next. There are many different taxonomic families of birds, but to keep things simple, we can generalize birds into a handful of main groups. Here are the 6 main types …
List of the Extinct Birds
1. Dodo Bird The Dodo bird was a flightless bird that lived in the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. There, the Dodo bird inhabited and…
Top The Birds That Can’t Fly
No list of flightless birds would be complete without the penguin . All 18 species of penguin are unable to fly, and are in fact better built for swimming and diving, which they spend the majority of their time doing. Their short legs and stocky build …
A Rare Bird with To Contrasting Colors was Discovered in Colombia
A rare bird with two opposite feather colors was discovered in Colombia (Photo: John Murillo). While on vacation in Colombia, John Murillo, an amateur ornithologist, and Hamish Spencer, a zoologist, accidentally came across a rare bird…
The Real Bird Mind of the Eurasian Magpie
There is a fair amount of superstition surrounding the Eurasian magpie (also called the common magpie), a bird known for its jet black and white feathers and purple-, green-, and blue-streaked wings. An old British rhyme predicts a person’s fate on the …
You’ll be pleasantly pleased! Introducing 7 Amazing Animals with Occupations
Military Dolphins Considered highly intelligent, dolphins have been enlisted by the military to perform various tasks, most notably detecting underwater mines. With their advanced sonar-like system, dolphins can easily detect mines in murky waters or …
15 Enthralling Birdsongs and Their Interesting Stories
Common blackbird ( Turdus merula ) The common blackbird is native to Europe and central Asia, but it was introduced to Australia in the 1850s. Only the males in this species are black; females have brown plumage. Most blackbirds grow to just under 10 …
The World’s Most Numerous Organisms
Insect It hardly comes as a surprise that ants are the most numerous insect in the world. These colonial hymenopterans may number from 10-100,000 trillion individuals globally; there are more than 10,000 species. The springtails, or Collembola, used to …
Investigating the Differences Between Llamas and Alpacas
Llamas and alpacas have been used by humans for transportation and fleece production for a few thousand years. Both species are primarily found in Peru and Bolivia and are part of the camel family, Camelidae. Alpacas and llamas are two of the four lamoid …