BIRDS are special kind of animal species with certain specific characteristics that are common to all of them. All of them are feathered, winged, bipedal (meaning: having two legs), egg-laying, warm blooded, vertebrate animals belonging to the class Aves. They are an important part of the ecosystem and are present across the globe from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Birds inhabit the environment that suits them and that is what separates the species found in Polar Regions from those in the Tropical Region. In spite of all the similarities that the bird species share, they have certain unique characteristics which differentiate them from others.Birds may be of different sizes. They could be small as much as 2 inches (e.g. Bee hummingbird) to as big as 2.75 meters (like an Ostrich). Fossil records indicate the emergence of birds to as old as 160 million years ago..
Some birds can fly high and some birds can swim in the water. The duck, the stork and the swan are water birds. Birds like the peacock and cock cannot fly high. Birds like the eagle, the vulture, the kite and the hawk can fly very high in the sky. Some birds cannot fly, penguin is one such species. Bird lays eggs, and hatches the young ones.The cuckoo and the nightingale are singing birds. The parrot can be trained to talk. The owls can see even in darkness. The bats hang from the branches of trees upside down.
Birds are special kind of animal species with certain specific characteristics. Birds inhabit the environment that suits them. Birds are social. They live in flocks, hunt, breed cooperatively and participate in social behaviors.Birds are closely connected with the environment. They are known to be intuitive about weather conditions that may prevail in the region much ahead than humans can predict it with the forecast methods and other instruments. They have the strong power of monitoring and careful examination is also used as an indicator of the weather conditions.
When birds communicate, they use songs and calls. These songs and calls are special to each bird and mean different things. Birds are social animals and like to work together, and they flock together for protection and company. A bird might also use its body to communicate, as seen in special mating dances.
bird’s beak, or bill, is different depending on the diet of the bird. If a bird is a meat eater, or raptor, such as a bald eagle, they have a sharper curved beak that is used to help tear the meat off the animal they are eating. Birds that live off the water, such as ducks and swans, have flat rounded bills, which help them root around in marshes and soft soil for plants. Birds that eat insects, such as sparrows, have short pointed beaks, which help them pull out bugs from the ground or trees.
The presence of peacock symbolizes rain and good weather while owls, bats and vultures are said to indicate a bad, unpleasant weather in an area. Certain birds are kept near coal mines for the prediction of the mine explosion, as the birds are sensitive to the release of high levels of carbon monoxide beyond permitted limits and begin to die.
It also happens that the prettiest birds are often the worst singers. The birds of Australia, for example, in spite of their gorgeous plumage, have a hoarse, monotonous note. On the other hand, the lark and the cuckoo, with their plain and sober outer appearance, have a marvelous gilt of song. The sweetest singing birds in this country are the the cuckoo and the magpie robin (doyel), while the chief songsters among foreign birds are the lark, the thrush and the nightingale.
One of the commonest birds is the little sparrow. It can only chirp, and therefore does not really possess a song. Quite different is the case of the crow, another coumon bird, having a plumage of dark black color and a voice, which is terribly hoarse and harsh. The pigeon does not sing, but it is a great favorite and is very tame.Birds differ from quadrupeds in having their bodies covered with feathers instead of hair. These feathers are kept in good condition by means of a kind of oil with which lords are supplied. These creatures are often seen peeking at their feathers with their bills. In fact, they supply their feathers with oil when they do this.Birds soothe us with their song and with their merry, lively ways. The world would often be very lonely and melancholy without their music.
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