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 them. Owls live on every

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 is a third of the

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 food.

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.

takes up about 1/5 of its body space.

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

that birds evolved from dinosaurs during the Mesozoic Era about 150 million years ago.

is a sport that was developed more than 4,000 years ago in eastern and central Asia. Birds were used because they could kill animals beyond the range of a hunter’s

are found in tropical rain forests.

Carbon emissions from your lifestyle choices, from transportation to diet, impact the climate. This is a global problem, but you can be a part of the solution.

are killed by cats in the continental U.S. each year. Please keep your cats indoors!