#bird knowledge

Before the accident, Danny has regular old swallow wings (pretty common) but after the accident, he losses the ability to use his wings (as it was his wing that pushed the button in stead of his hand in this AU).

Danny adapts to no longer being able to fly, until a ghost attack happens and his wings are taken as collateral from protecting his classmates in human form. As a result of the injury, his wings have to be surgically removed.

Danny's echo doesn't like this, so Danny regrows wings... except they are no longer the swallow wings that they were before, they are now the red ones of a cardinal (known in certain circles to carry messages from dead loved ones).

https://blog.csiro.au/australia-breeds-brainy-birds/

this seems like the kind of problem a bird kid who was made to eat plastic might have to deal with.

Birds have an interesting cryptochrome (protein type found in the eye) that responds to magnetic fields and also some other electromagnetic fields!

So they can literally see magnetic fields...but it can be interfered with by radio-frequency electromagnetic fields. (It has to be a frequency aligned with the oscillation of the cryptochrome molecules or it won't interfere with their magnetic sense.)

Funny possible side effect if Grian has this: His comms unit interferes with his magnetic sense so he basically just...doesn't have that.

Oooooooo more birb facts :D

Also, lots of bird species dustbathe! Even if the feathers are clean (eg shampooed) they will still feel the urge to dustbathe every so often and if they can't will sham-dustbathe on nonsuitable substrate like bedding material or food. (Of course sometimes you get a dumb bird that sham dustbathes RIGHT next to a good dustbathing spot, which looks very silly.)

Ehehehehe birbs! Thankyou for the knowledge :D

One of the struggles with being a bird owner (or just someone with basic bird knowledge I guess lol) is seeing big parrots like macaws being put in cages 10 TIMES TOO SMALL than what they're supposed to have.

THAT size cage is for small birds like conures and cockatiels. And even then it's still only fit for ONE bird.