Blaze-winged Flowerpecker!
What is yours?What is your bird name? We came up with this handy chart to help you figure yours out. This post was inspired by the dazzling @alieward with her mushroom post of similar ilk. Many birds have ridiculous names, and now you can have one too! These are all taken from real, absurdly named birds. #bird #birds #birdsofinstagram #ridiculousness ... See MoreSee Less
The most interesting findings came when the researchers placed chicks on a slope covered with a towel. The bird's progress up the slope was slow and halting, and it sometimes took a couple of tries before the wing-claws succeeded in grabbing the fabric. But the basic pattern was clear: right wing, left foot, left wing, right foot. Hoatzin chicks walk like four-legged animals, using their wings as front legs. ... See MoreSee Less
The Baby Birds That Use Wing-Claws to Climb Through the Amazon
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(Inside Science) -- A phoenix crossed with a dinosaur. That's what the hoatzins looked like, with their lumpish bodies and spiked crests and blue faces. They squatted in the foliage at the edge of a lagoon in the Ecuadorian Amazon and made chuffing noises at our kayak. One lumbered aloft, made it to... Glass is invisible to birds so they will either attempt to fly straight through it or if they see a reflection on glass, say of trees or leaves, they perceive it as the real thing.
Statistically, reflective glass is more lethal than clear. Window collisions tend to happen at the height of and below the city’s tree canopy because birds are either insectivorous, seed-eating or fruit-eating and they make their way through the tree canopy from tree to tree. If a tree is directly in front of a glass-windowed building, the bird might fly toward the reflection of a tree in the glass, thinking it’s the real thing. ... See MoreSee Less
