• the Haryana Tourism Corporation names its tourist complexes after local birds in the Indian state of Haryana?
• the Heard Shag is a bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles and blue eye-rings?
• the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, the Archaeopteryx?
• the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea?
• the Elfin-woods Warbler, an endemic bird of Puerto Rico first observed in 1968, is the last New World warbler to be discovered?
• the Calayan Rail flightless bird is a significant recent species discovery, announced on 16 August 2004?
• the Djibouti Francolin, a critically endangered species of bird, is only known from two isolated locations in Djibouti?
• the Long-tailed Broadbill is the only bird in the genus Psarisomus?
• the Obscure Berrypecker of New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings?
• the unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus (pictured) gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings?
• there is no such bird as a woofen-poof?
• the social systems of some bee-eaters are the most complex of any bird, including four tiers: pair, family, clan and colony?
• the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth?
• the Tigmamanukan, a Philippine mythological bird, can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?
• the flightless adzebill was a large predatory bird that lived in New Zealand, and was initially thought to be a kind of moa?
• the biodiversity of New Zealand is dominated by bird families that flew in from Australia and insects, frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana?
• the Bateleur is a medium-sized eagle in the bird family Accipitridae found in Africa?
• Christian Jouanin, a French ornithologist, has described three species of birds, including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin?
• microchromosomes are very tiny gene-rich chromosomes which are a typical genetic component in birds, and some groups of non-mammalian animals?
• scaly leg is a bird disease caused by mites, and can be treated with petroleum jelly?
• Meller's Chameleon (pictured) catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue?
• Bundala National Park of Sri Lanka harbors 197 species of birds, the highlight being the Greater Flamingo (pictured), which migrate in large flocks?
• peacocks (pictured) are among the 143 bird species recorded in Wasgamuwa National Park?
• sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird, with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
• Washingtonia is a genus of palm and produces a fruit, eaten by Native American people as a minor food source and by birds?
• Momotus is a genus of green and blue birds with raquet-shaped tails?
• during his tenure as curator at Université Laval, François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds from the ground up?
• the extinct Australian dromornithids, which included the largest birds known, are related to ducks and geese?
• despite its name, the Togian White-eye, a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia, lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus?
• although the only known natural definitive host of the fluke Catatropis johnstoni is the marsh rice rat, its normal host may be a bird?
• Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama, making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds?
• a sotdae (pictured) is a tall wooden pole or stone pillar with a sculptured bird atop, traditionally set up for the purpose of folk belief in Korea?
• definitive hosts for the fluke Ascocotyle pindoramensis include a variety of birds as well as the marsh rice rat?

Facts on topics related to Bird

Archaeopteryx

• the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, the Archaeopteryx?

Seabird

• Fowlsheugh cliffs attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?
• the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds—more than California and Washington combined?
• the Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops, unlike most other seabirds, which nest in seashore colonies?

Ichthyornis

• the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth?

Owl

• Kirkleatham's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls?
• the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl?