Swallows
Swallows are nice birds with white undersides, iridescent blue-green backs, and moderately forked tails. The swallow body is 5 to 6 inches in length. In contrast, its long, deeply forked tail distinguishes the barn swallow. The cliff swallow is also recognized by its pale, orange-brown rump, white forehead, dark rust-colored throat, and steel blue crown and back.
Swallows feed insects and spend a large part of each day in the air catching flies, beetles, and mosquitoes. Their long, pointed wings give them great speed and maneuverability. Normally, swallows are not seen on the ground except when collecting mud for their nests.
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Spice Finch
Spice Finch is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines.
Spice Finch is 11–12 cm in length. The adult has a stubby dark bill, brown upperparts and darker brown head. The underparts are white with black scale markings. The sexes are similar, but immature birds have pale brown upperparts, lack the darker head and have uniform buff underparts.
Spice Finch diet consists of dry seed, rice, small insect, and greens as the basis. Melons and cucumber are also enjoyed as are green seedling grasses.
Penguins
Penguins are birds with black and white feathers.But unlike most birds, penguins are not able to fly, they swim.Penguins use their wings for swimming.Penguin’sare carnivores.They mostly eat seafood.The main food is fish.They also eat squid, krill and crustaceans.Penguins hunt for fish, squid or shrimp like krill in the oceans to fill their stomach.Most penguins can swim about 15 miles per hour.Some penguins live in Antarctica, Coast of South America, South Africa, Galapagos, Southern Australia and New Zealand.
habitat
Most penguins spend more time in the water. Their bodies are designed adapt to the water. They have feathers that help them to move but also to keep the water from reaching their body.
nests
penguins use grass, rocks, sticks, and other debris to build nests and burrows. This is where they will lay their eggs as well as care for their young when they are born until they can go to the water to hunt for food on their own.
Herons are good hunters
Herons are good hunters, with long strong beaks on the end of a long neck which uncoils to deliver a quick, powerful lunge.
Their long legs give them added height advantage and a long stride.
The primary food for Heron is small fish, though it is also known to opportunistically feed on a wide range of shrimp, crabs, aquatic insects, rodents and other small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and small birds.
woodpecker
woodpecker nest in cavities.A cosy hole in a tree trunk is the place where Woodpeckers nest. The nest entrance is very round. Almost every species nests in tree cavities, although in deserts some species nest inside holes in cactus and a few species nest in holes dug into the earth.
they will cut a hole in a tree trunk, but they'll already know that the tree's insides are hollow and good for a nest.... they don't hollow out a tree, just put a hole where there is already a cavity.....
ChickeN Fact Again
- A chickens' heart beats 280-315 times a minute
- It takes a hen 24-26 hours to lay an egg.
- A chicken takes 21 days to hatch.
- Chickens lay different colored eggs, from white, to brown, to green, to pink, to blue.
- A chickens' body temperature normally runs at 102-103 degrees F