Fun Bird Facts/Quiz Part One ~ The Answers!

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1. What bird can fly but can't walk? A hummingbird has to fly if it wants to move an inch.

Its feet are only strong enough for perching.

Aren't they sweet? I love their long beaks!

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2. What bird kills snakes for dinner? This would be the Secretary bird,

another name for the bird is "serpent eagle."

That is because it just loves snakes--for dinner, that is.

When it finds one it either kills it with a powerful kick

or seizes it with its claws and strikes it

on the back of the neck with its beak.

It may use beak, wings and feet to kill a large snake.

It uses its wings as shields to keep from being bitten.

These birds have been known to kill snakes up to four ft long

but their main food is small mammals and insects.

Secretary birds live in South Africa.

This one could almost be Jane Hathaway

from the Beverly Hillbillies!

But she wasn't so mean as this.

I think the one in the photo looks quite chic

in her black walking shorts and gray blazer!

She looks like she has a real attitude!

Don't mess with her!

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3. What bird sometimes takes steps twenty-five feet long? An ostrich can run faster than most horses.

A large ostrich will sometimes take steps twenty-five feet long!

That face! Oh my...one only a mother could love??

You can't help but laugh!

Bachelor thought it was a pic of him!

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4. What bird can pinpoint the direction from which a sound is coming? Owls' ears are special. They are simply holes in the side of the head, protected by a flap of skin and hidden by the feathers. One of the owls' ear openings points upward and the other downward. This enables the owl to pinpoint the direction of a sound. The owl's face has a ring of stiff curved feathers around it from which the sound waves bounce into the ear drums. This Snowy Owl is probably my favorite wild bird. I would have one for a pet if I could! Or maybe Willow could find a taxidermy one for me! :)

5. What bird flies non-stop over thousands of miles of open ocean?

Golden Plover! These birds, no larger than a pigeon,

nest near the Arctic Circle. In the fall some of them fly along

the west coasts of North and South America.

They fly from their home in the north to Hawaii

or the Polynesian islands. They must fly without food

or rest over thousands of miles of open water

and land on islands that seem like little dots in the vast ocean.

Amazing!