#feather fact

A bird’s eye takes up about 50% of its head; our eyes take up about 5% of our head. To be comparable to a bird’s eyes, our eyes would have to be the size of baseballs.

Birds are the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs.

A Baltimore oriole can eat as many as 17 hairy caterpillars in a minute. 

The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

Routinely, North American migrants cross the 500 miles of the Gulf of Mexico without resting.

Groups of birds have special names: a "cast" of hawks, a "flights" of doves, an "exaltation" of larks, a "host" of sparrows.

To use energy at the rate of a Hummingbird, a human would have to eat 340 pounds of potatoes every day.

Some 300 of North America's 700 bird species pass through New York City each spring on their way north.