Did You Know This? (part 2) |
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| Here are some more obscure and little known facts for bird lovers. |
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Brant Geese are waterfowl flying champions, flying non-stop from Alaska to their wintering grounds in Baja California. |
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Red Crossbills leave their normal range when food is scare in search of the conifer seeds they love. |
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Mallards are one of the fastest ducks, reaching speeds of 100 mph (with a tail wind helping). |
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Nuthatches use their bills to smear the sap of coniferous trees around the entrance of their nest cavities. |
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The Red-breasted Merganser is the fastest duck on record, clocked at 100 mph.
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Wrens wag their tails from side to side. |
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Blackbird couples raise two or three broods a year, making a new nest each time. |
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Sapsuckers drill holes then lick the sap and eat the insects trapped in the sap. |
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Spotted Towhees nest on the ground, with the female doing all the work of building the nest and incubating the eggs. |
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Canada Geese are non-native species to the UK, introduced by King Charles II in the seventeenth century. |
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Some Common goldeneye females abandon their broods soon after hatching, and the young will join another female's brood. |
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Ring-billed gulls nests in colonies. On Little Galloo Island in eastern Lake Ontario, there is a colony estimated as high as 82 000 pairs. |
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