The fact that female cardinals aren’t red and every Christmas we get a slew of gay birds in every Christmas decoration ever

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Hummingbird tongues wrap around their skulls for storage :)

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Mine is that eagle chicks will sometimes just yeet their siblings out of the nest

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turkey vultures pee on themselves to cool down in the summer. also they’re basically nature’s secret superheroes because they can fly for 6 hours at a time without stopping AND their stomach acid is powerful enough to kill the microbes growing on carrion that might make other animals sick. also their heads are bald to keep their faces clean from carrion. their claws are weak like a chicken but their beaks are crazy strong. can you tell i work with kids outside?

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New Caledonian crows are technically in their own Stone Age

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I have 2 facts that I love 1. Chickens have a sort of natural inner gyroscope so you can strap a go pro to its head and the video will be completely stable 2. (Male) Lyrebirds can perfectly imitate hundreds of sound including forest machinery, babies crying, and car alarms. They have the most complex and unique mating songs of any bird

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fly

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geese will put all their goslings together in flocks known as "creches" and the goslings are looked after by 2-3 adults. It's like a big kindergarten/daycare with the adults swapping the babysitting duties. also the geese are like ten times more aggressive to protect all the goslings

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The birds work for the bourgeoisie

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Blue jays are corvids

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The males are the pretty ones dancing to attract the females <33

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Cassowaries are big and scary as fuc!!!

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Cockatoos are the first birds to be observed to have specific flavor preferences (even when factors like colors are changed) and will dip food into the sauces they prefer. (Discovered this year!)

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