Birds of a Feather

• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
• It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
• A capon is a castrated rooster.
  A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds
• By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
• The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
• Swans are the only birds with penises.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.