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Did You Know This? (Part 3) |
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| Even more obscure and little known facts for bird lovers. |
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Did you know that the female bushtit has yellow eyes, the male doesn’t? |
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The Heermann’s Gull has a current population of about 150,000 pairs, 90% nest on the island of Rasa in the Gulf of California. |
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The Great Blue heron is the largest heron in North America and nests in a colony in trees called a heronry. |
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The Golden-crowned Kinglet can survive very cold temperatures, down to - 25 degrees, often huddling together in empty squirrel nests and tree cavities. |
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The Black Oystercatcher scrapes a depression in the ground for its nest and will toss shells and pebbles into it. They will use the same nest year-after-year.
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There are three distinct juncos in the North West: Slate colored junco, Oregon Junco and this, the Pink-sided junco all now clumped together under "Dark-eyed Junco." |
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The Steller's Jay, shown here, and the Blue Jay are the only New World jays that use mud in the construction of their nests. |
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The origin of the species name for the Canvasback is from its favourite food, Valisneria americana, Wild celery. They occasionally lay their eggs in other Canvasback's nests. |
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The Black Turnstone nest on the ground, nesting at the same exact site with the same mate year after year. |
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The Road Runner, state bird of New Mexico, is quick enough to catch and eat rattlesnakes. |
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There are three families of kingfishers and all beat their prey to death before swallowing it. |
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After catching a fish, the Double-crested Cormorant surfaces and flips the fish in the air and swallows it head first. |
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