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Over 12,000 birds at Pong Dam lake | Incredible Birds
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July 5, 2015. Over 12,000 birds at Pong Dam lake. A favourite haunt of the migratory birds from Central Asia and Siberia during winters, the Pong Dam wildlife sanctuary in Himachal Paradesh (India) these days is home to summer breeding birds from Central India. Officials of the Wildlife wing of the Forest Department have recorded 12,314 birds at Pong Dam lake besides 90 species of butterflies and 18 species of snakes. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. You may use these.
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ARMY AGAINST FLIGHTLESS BIRDS | Incredible Birds
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ARMY AGAINST FLIGHTLESS BIRDS. The war is still remembered in Australia today as the greatest defeat ever incurred on the Australian nation and her subjects. Causes of the ‘War’. After a meticulous planning military involvement was due to begin in October 1932 under the command of Major G.P.W. Meredith. The next significant event was on 4 November when Meredith planned an ambush near a local dam, and over 1,000 emus were spotted heading towards their position. This time the gunners waited until the b...
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FEMALES WITH ‘HAREM’ OF MALES | Incredible Birds
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FEMALES WITH ‘HAREM’ OF MALES. Among the ‘harem-maintaining’ species of birds, normally, it is the male that keeps a number of females with him, but in comb-crested jacanas the role is reversed. The female not only maintains a harem, which usually has three to five males, but also takes over the traditional role of males, like defending territory and driving away predators that include avian creatures and water snakes, etc. Why the role of both sexes is reversed in this species? Belonging to the Family.
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AMAZING FLYING MACHINES | Incredible Birds
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Birds capable of rapid and sustained flight have long, narrow wings, e. g. the common swift, hobby, terns etc. These birds have a slender body that offers minimum resistance to the air. Types, Characteristics and Structure. Feathers are among the most complicated integumentary appendages found on the bodies of vertebrates and are formed in tiny follicles in the epidermis, or outer skin layer, that produces proteins named keratin. They are of two basic types: (1) vaned feathers. Flight feathers become rig...
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NESTING, MATING & REARING CHICKS | Incredible Birds
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NESTING, MATING & REARING CHICKS. According to researchers, millions of years before man appeared on earth, birds had already learnt to build nests and rear their young in every corner of the earth. As we know all birds lay eggs, but all do not make nests. In the same way they show different kinds of behavior all through their breeding period and in every aspect of it. Males arrive before females. As the breeding season starts, among the migratory birds, it is the males that arrive slightly before the fe...
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BIRDS CONTROL OWN POPULATION | Incredible Birds
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BIRDS CONTROL OWN POPULATION. Gull-like sea birds known as the pirates of the Polar Regions, have very unique and ruthless way of controlling their own population during the years when food is scarce. Usually they raise two chicks, but in the event of scarcity of food, either the first chick will kill the second or the parents will themselves perform this brutal act. Skuas usually pair for life and both the sexes share the parental duties. Found worldwide, these long-necked and long-legged, white birds a...
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WORLD’S MOST NUMEROUS BIRDS | Incredible Birds
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WORLD’S MOST NUMEROUS BIRDS. Red-billed Quelea (Attribution – Bernard DUPONT and CC BY-SA 2.0). Is the most abundant bird in the world today. According to Crook. S estimate of 1968, the population of these sociable seed-eating African weaverbirds was at 1-10,000 million, which was believed to be highly exaggerated. Their estimate was based on reported kills, which the farmers often made to save their crops. A more recent estimate by Clive Elliott. Size of the population. The genus of these birds contains...
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EVEN UNHATCHED YOUNG CAN LEARN | Incredible Birds
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EVEN UNHATCHED YOUNG CAN LEARN. Mallard pair (Attribution – Richard Bartz and CC BY – SA 2.5). Whenever there is a case of rearing the offspring mothers do have some extraordinary qualities compared to fathers, whether it is in humans or other animals. Among birds there are many species in which females are able to communicate with their chicks even when they are not hatched. Other bird which communicates with its unhatched chicks is Superb fairy-wren (. This allows the parents to differentiate between t...
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BIRD WHOSE SALIVA IS DELICACY | Incredible Birds
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BIRD WHOSE SALIVA IS DELICACY. Belong to the genus. Which covers 21 species, found in SE Asia, Australia, Pacific and Indian Ocean islands, Seychelles and Mascarenes. In China saliva of these birds is a delicacy and is used for making bird’s nest soup, locally known as ‘. Though scientists claim these nests have no nutritional value and their soup has no taste but locally nests are regarded as highly aphrodisiac. One species, Uniform Swiftlet. Swiftlet’s nests before making soup (CC BY-SA 3.0). Means ‘la...
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MORE THAN 10,000 SPECIES | Incredible Birds
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MORE THAN 10,000 SPECIES. Class Aves comprises of all the birds in the world. Is the oldest fossil bird known, dating from the Upper Jurassic period. Little is known about the birds of the Cretaceous period. Major evolution in the bird life took place during the Tertiary period when most of the modern orders appeared. With constant and fairly high body temperature ranging from 38 degrees C to 44 degrees C, they are higher vertebrates. Since birds came into existence, about 20 lakh (2 million) species may...
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