About Birds

Description of Bird’s body Part

A “BIRD” is a feathered vertebrate, warm blooded creature whose body temperature remains bit constant irrespective of surroundings and their activities due to their non-conducting feathers which is main characteristics separating them from other creatures. They have hollow bones which helps them keep their body weight light with complex muscular anatomy having breast muscle comprising of about 25 percentage of the body weight. They have a beak also called as bill, the shape of a beak directly relates to what they eat which has evolved its self over the years for the purpose of cutting, tearing, flower and mud probing, seed crushing, wood chiseling and to grip a fish. This evolution make them independent in terms of their struggle in food chain. Similarly their feet has also shaped itself for their need to hunt, run, cling, climb and swim. Birds have an acute eyesight which is almost 10 times sharper than most of mammals, woodcocks has got 360 degree of view because their eyes on sides of its head. An Owl eyes are so developed that they have better than normal night view because they don’t have eye balls rather they are elongated tubes and that’s the reason they cannot move their eyes, this is the power of evolution that they have developed their anatomy which allows them to rotate their neck.

Interesting Facts about Birds :

A Humming Bird can fly backwards and sideways
Kiwis are blind and they hunt by smell
Birds eat twice their weight in a day (So the phrase “Eat like a Bird” is definitely in virtual sense of words)
Most birds eye covers almost 50% of their head
Most common bird in this world is “Chicken”
Kingfisher, Grebe, Swift, Loon and humming birds can not walk
Bats are not Birds and they fly (Everything that flies are not Birds)
Penguins are Birds who can swim
Peregrine Falcon is fastest bird in this world
Bee Humming bird is the smallest and Ostrich is biggest of all birds
Sauras Crane is tallest flying bird as Ostrich cannot fly

Hindi Name of Birds List of All Birds In India

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