Thursday, July 30, 2009

Ten Trivia Facts About Birds

1. Chickens can absord vitamin D from sunshine.

2. The average hen lays 227 eggs a year.

3. When a group of geese are on the ground, they're called a gaggle. When they're in the air, they're called a skein.

4. The maximum speed of a chicken is 9 miles per hour.

5. It takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

6. Chocolate is fatal to a parrot.

7. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

8. An adult turkey has about 3,500 feathers on average.

9. Harpy eagles eat monkeys.

10. An ostrich's stride may exceed 23 feet in length while the bird is sprinting or running.

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