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Interesting facts about birds
•The oldest bird was known as an
Archaeopteryx and lived about 150
million years ago. It was the size of
a raven, was covered with feathers,
and had wings.
• The most yolks ever found in a
single chicken's egg is nine.
•An ostrich egg needs to be boiled
for 2 hours to get a hard-boiled egg.
•The Royal Albatross' eggs take 79
days to hatch.
•The egg of the hummingbird is the
world's smallest bird's egg; the egg
of the ostrich, the world’s largest.
•The now-extinct elephant bird
of Madagascar laid an egg that
weighed 27 pounds.
•Precocial birds like chickens,
ostriches, ducks, and seagulls
hatch ready to move around.
They come from eggs with bigger
yolks than altricial birds like owls,
woodpeckers, and most small
songbirds that need a lot of care
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from parents in order to survive.
•Air sacs may make up 1/5 of the
body volume of a bird.
•A bird’s normal body temperature
is usually 7-8 degrees hotter than
a human’s. Up to three-quarters
of the air a bird breathes is used
just for cooling down since they are
unable to sweat.
•A bird’s heart beats 400 times per
minute while resting and up to 1000
beats per minute while flying.
•The world's only wingless bird is
the kiwi of New Zealand.
•Migrating ducks and geese often
fly in V-shape formations. Each bird
flies in the upwash of its neighbor's
beating wings and this extra bit
of supporting wind increases lift,
thereby saving energy.
•Falcons can swoop at over 200
mph.
•Penguins, ostriches, and dodo
birds are all birds that do not fly.
Kiwi bird
•Hummingbirds eat about every
ten minutes, slurping down twice
their body weight in nectar every
day.
•The homing pigeon, Cher Ami,
lost an eye and a leg while carrying
a message in World War I. Cher
Ami won the Distinguished Service
Cross. Its leg was replaced with a
wooden leg.
•The only known poisonous bird in
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the world is the hooded pitohui of
Papua, New Guinea. The poison is
found in its skin and feathers.
•The American turkey vulture
helps human engineers detect
cracked or broken underground
fuel pipes. The leaking fuel smells
like vulture food (they eat carrion),
and the clustered birds show
repair people where the lines need
fixing. — peteducation.com
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The answers to the following are five-letter words. When found, rearrange them to fit into the
square so that they read both down and across. (The centre letter is given).
3 14 2 14 13 5 23 24 14 12
11 12 2 18 24 26 17 18 13
19 25 9 9 17 11 14 13 24 7 14 17
25 14 24 18 10 14 13 13 3 24
22 24 3 17 7 18 14 22 14 18 1
14 19 23 18 5 24
22 4 19 24 3 9 14 24 2 17 13 5 11
20 16 17 15 13 13
5 17 17 18 14 13 17 18 5 24 19
13 16 18 17 14 13 12 10 19 25
24 7 26 25 8 8 3 24 22 24 12 13
9 5 24 19 13 14 14 5 21
19 13 19 14 19 16 14 4 24 7
19 13 14 18 11 16 4 16 12
Each number in the crossword stands for a letter and these letters, when found, then form an
ordinary crossword. To start off, the number 2 represents X, the number 13 represents T, and the
number 4 represents Y.
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Sharpens, hones
Rubbish
Lift
Tube for sucking up a
beverage
Something of value
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Code 187 Answer
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