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A rook skull The rook is a very social bird; in the evenings they gather in large flocks, often in thousands. Rooks are highly gregarious birds and are generally seen in flocks of various sizes. Males and females pair-bond for life and pairs stay together within flocks.
The name combines the Ancient Greek αγάπη agape meaning "love" and όρνις ornis meaning "bird". [5] The type species is the black-collared lovebird (Agapornis swindernianus), [6] which was originally placed into the genus Psittacus within a section called Psittacula by naturalist Heinrich Kuhl. [4]
This, and the fact that even hand-fed birds remain too shy and nervous to make good pets, are clear reasons for any captive Madagascars to be given a chance to breed, rather than being kept as pets. Grey-headed lovebirds prefer finch and canary seed over the sunflower/safflower mixes that most other lovebirds eat.
Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...
If, by chance, the bird is looking away from you, then Doolittle believes that the red Cardinal has messages for you, but "you may be missing [them] by being too busy or too distracted from your ...
Most passerine birds have 12 tail feathers but the superb lyrebird has 16, [15] and several spinetails in the family Furnariidae have 10, 8, or even 6, as is the case of Des Murs's wiretail. Species adapted to tree trunk climbing such as treecreepers and woodcreeper have stiff tail feathers that are used as props during climbing. [ 16 ]
"The hawk is a magnificent bird, soaring up on the warm air currents and rising above to gain a perspective over the whole landscape," he describes. "It delights me every time I see a hawk."
A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest known modern bird.. An early relative of the continent’s ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic ...