The word datyly is not a word many of us have actually said, but it is a word that we have all thought about without knowing the word. Have you ever wondering how many toes or fingers a monkey has, or why a chicken has three toes pointing forward and one toe pointing backwards. The…
This is always an interesting topic for me because people who don’t like animals or are new to the animal world are always so puzzled by bird watching, yet animal people love bird watching. “Do they really just go and watch birds?”, I have been asked and they are not wrong. Bird watching is really…
A raptor is a bird of prey, but there are many birds that are carnivores or omnivores like ducks and penguins. But are they raptors? No, a raptor needs to be able to fly, unlike penguins that swim, and needs to catch its food with its feet, unlike ducks that use their beak. Let’s take…
Here’s our Barn Owl Quiz. Can you screech out the correct answers?
The ability to fly is one thing us humans have fantasized about for all of history, and have achieved ourselves through technology. But the way an animal like a bird or insect is built and evolved to fly still intrigues many, often wondering what life would be like if we could fly this way too….
Birds are a diverse group of animals with many distinct traits. Vertebrates (have back bones) Endothermic (warm blooded) Feathers Beak (instead of teeth) Laying of eggs While all modern-day birds have feathers and wings, there are many birds that do not fly. Ostrich (The world’s largest bird that lives on the savannah in Africa) Penguins…