most birds do not have bladders to store urine.

don’t sing. Instead, they will drum their beak against a tree. Other woodpeckers can identify which bird it is by the sound of the drumming.

Instead, they have extra vertebrae in their necks to allow their heads to turn further. They can turn their head around to see straight behind

often take the longest to hatch. Emu chicks, for example, take 60 days to hatch. Small songbirds take just 2 weeks.

It measures 7″ x 5″ and weighs 3 pounds. However, the biggest egg for the size of the mother is laid by the kiwi and

can hold up to 2.5 gallons of water at a time. The beak will shrink to squeeze out the water before the pelican swallows its

is the whistling swan, with up to 25,000 feathers. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, are so small that they have fewer than 1,000.

is the bee hummingbird. Its egg is just under 0.5″ x 0.25″ and weighs a mere 0.02 oz.

to detect poisonous levels of carbon monoxide gas. Miners knew that if the canary passed out, they were in danger, too. The phrase “Canary in

takes up about 1/5 of its body space.

DOAS offers nature camp sessions for children entering grades1 through 6.

It can weigh up to 27 lb. (12 kg.).