Chickens and Ostriches are the closest modern relatives to the Tyrannosaurus rex. A research was published in 2008 in the journal of science and found molecular evidence linking the birds to the extinct dinosaur.
Crows and ravens are extremely intelligent. Well it is speculated that a crow has the intelligence of a seven year old.
The average man would have to eat around 285 pounds(126.67kg) of meat per day to maintain his weight if he had the matabolism of a humming bird.
Californian condors have a wingspan so big that they are sometimes mistaken for small aircrafts.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Cardinals like to cover themselves in ants. Although scientists are not really sure why, Cardinals alongside some species of birds cover themselves in ants
The average humming bird weighs around 4 grams. With the smallest member of the humming bird family weighing 1.6 grams and the largest weighing 24 grams, humming birds are among the lightest birds.
In Ancient Greece, Pigeons delivered the results of the olympic games.
Bassian thrushes have been known to dislodge their prey from piles of leaves by directing their farts at them.
The oldest recorded bird lived up to 80 years.
An Ostrich's egg needs 2 hours before it can be hard boiled.
The most number of yolk ever recorded in a bird's egg was 7 yolks.
Bar-headed geese are the highest flying migratory birds reaching altitudes of up to 5.5miles(8.85km) high.
The record for the highest altitude a bird has flown is 37,000 feet(7miles or 11.263km) and was made by a Ruppel's Griffon vulture. It was eventually sucked into a planes engine.
The Artic Tern flies more than 49,700 miles(79,967.3) a year, making it the longest migration of any bird.
The Bar Tailed Godwit can fly for nearly 7000miles(11,263km) without stopping.
A bird known as miracle mike was so famous because he lived for 18 months without a head.
During the first and second world war, pidgeons were used to transport massages back to their home coop behind the lines.
A bird named The mocker flew 52 missions during world war.
Even though losing one foot and an eye "Cher Ami" the bird got her message through during world war 1.
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