This trivia is for the birds...
The bee hummingbird is the bird that lays the tiniest egg on the planet. Its egg measures slightly less than 0.5″ x 0.25″ and weighs only 0.02 oz.
The red-billed Quelea is the most common wild bird on the planet, with an estimated adult breeding population of 1.5 billion pairs. It is primarily found in Sub-Saharan Africa, and a single flock can contain thousands of birds. The chicken is the most prevalent non-wild bird.
The beta-carotene in their crustacean and plankton diet gives the flamingos their pink hue.
Flamingos stay together for the rest of their lives. Some couples have been together for 50 years or more.
Fieldfare birds have a unique method of attacking an opposing bird. They surround it and force it to fall to the ground. The Fieldfares then take to the air and defecate on the bird.
The ostrich lays the world’s largest egg. It is 7″ x 5″ in size and weighs 3 pounds. The kiwi, on the other hand, lays the largest egg for the size of the mother, which is a third of the bird’s weight. It is 5″ long and weighs up to 1 pound. This is the equivalent of an ostrich laying a 40-kilogram (88-pound) egg.
A woodpecker’s tongue can be up to 4″ long, depending on the species. It stores its long tongue by folding it up and inserting it into a specific hole on the back of its neck, where it may be sandwiched between the skull and the skin.
The seagulls in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds were fed a combination of wheat and whiskey to keep them from flying too much.
The excrement of the Fieldfare bird can kill an enemy bird.
