Other Birds Facts

A peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 200 miles per hour.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!

The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour.

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.

The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.

The fastest bird in the world is the Peregrine Falcon, which can reach speeds in excess of two hundred miles per hour.

There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the US.

The flying fox of Africa has a wingspan of fifty inches!

Birds save energy by flying in a "V" formation.

The largest bird egg ever laid was laid millions of years ago by the Madagascar, or the elephant bird.

Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp.

Whooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months old.

Blue jays often forget where they hide winter supplies of food.

Sometimes birds show anger towards humans by taking out its feelings on other birds nearby, because they are too afraid to attack humans.

The Egyptian vulture uses stones to smash ostrich eggs.