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Hi, welcome.
Today I decided to venture outside my cubby to enjoy the beautiful spring day.
Nothing says spring like fresh flowers and new buds forming on the trees.
and birds.
I love bird watching.
I brought with me a really cool book about bird facts. I think you'd love it.
Let's set up my blanket and read it together.
Come on.
This book is called Extreme Birds.
The world's most extraordinary and bizarre birds.
Ooh, this is going to be fun.
Fastest wing beat.
This is the blue tailed hummingbird found in Central America.
Hummingbirds flap their wings in a unique figure eight motion, averaging 50 to 80 times per second, which enables them to hover, fly backward, and even upside down.
Unlike other birds, they generate lift on both the downstroke and upstroke by rotating their wings 180° at the shoulder, acting more like propellers or ores.
Hummingbirds are so small that you would not expect them to fly especially fast.
But they can fly up to 60 miles per hour.
That's 100 kilometers an hour.
Wow. What an amazing little bird.
This one is the smelliest bird.
The crusted chocolate found by the bearing sea.
Crusted olets are small seabirds that nest on remote cliffs in the northern Pacific and the Bearing Sea.
But it's their smell that really sets these birds apart.
They smell like tangerines.
Experiments show that females go for males that emit the strongest scents.
One of their most striking features is their eyes, which are pale yellowish white and stand out sharply against their dark feathers.
Around each eye, they also have thin white hairike feathers that extend backward.
Often described as whiskers, giving them a very distinctive facial look.
During the breeding season, their appearance becomes even more dramatic.
They develop a bright orange bill and a small forehead crest that droops forward over the eyes.
Their eye appearance can also change during courtship.
Males are able to reduce the size of their pupils, which makes the eyes look even paler and more intense, almost entirely white in some moments.
This is thought to help them stand out during mating displays in crowded colonies.
Fullest Bill.
This bird is the Atlantic puffin found in the North Atlantic.
This bird carries a load of fish to bring to its young.
An average load is about 5 to 10 fish in its colorful bill.
Atlantic puffins bring their chicks about 62 g of protein a day.
The record for the most fish carried in their bill at one time is an incredible 62 small fish in one load.
This bird is the craftiest builder, the African masked weaver found in southern Africa.
These birds are known for weaving intricate nests from grass fragments.
Quite a few birds could lay claim to building the most elaborate nesting structures on Earth.
But as a family, the weavers are the undisputed champions.
Males of these small sparrowlike birds elevate the chore of nest building into an art form.
Interweaving strands of grass and other plant fragments into sublimely neat and welldesigned creations.
It's a task of great skill and the female weavers judge perspective mates on the quality of their work.
Typically, weaver nests are suspended from the tip of an overhanging branch.
They often begin by stripping off nearby leaves so that snakes and other predators cannot approach unnoticed.
Their first construction task is to weave their materials into a vertical ring.
suspended like a large curtain ring which forms the middle structure.
On one side they build the egg chamber and on the other the entrance.
In the case of the African masked weaver, the whole process takes 5 days during which the bird will manufacture several thousand weaves and simple knots.
Remarkably, all it uses for the construction is its bill.
Biggest plunge dive.
The northern ganet found on the Atlantic coast.
Northern ganets can dive from heights of 30 to 40 m.
That's 100 to 130 ft.
hitting the water at speeds up to 100 kilometers an hour and typically reaching depths of 10 to 22 m, though they can pursue fish down to about 30 m.
They streamline their bodies by folding their wings before impact.
While built-in air sacks in the head and neck act like cushions.
After the initial plunge, they can use their wings and feet to swim deeper in smooth uh shaped dives to catch prey.
The bird has no external nostrils.
Instead, it breathes through its mouth, which is specialized to prevent water from entering.
Its bill is a heavy, strong, and sharply pointed tool that tapers to a curved tip.
Classiest colors.
Look at this handsome fella.
It's the fisher struggle found in coastal east Africa.
These luminous birds have a colorful claim to fame. Their vivid red and green feathers contain turin and turcoverin pigments found in no other animal on earth.
If you soak a taco feather in water, the water will eventually change color.
These birds get the copper needed for their pigments from a diet rich in fruits, berries, and flowers, then deposited into their growing feathers.
Unlike most birds which appear green due to light reflection, Dracos have true green and red pigments, so their color stays vivid even in low light.
Young Turacos don't manage to acquire full adult colors until they are about a year old.
It seems the required amount of copper upon which the pigments depend takes that long to accumulate from the bird's diet.
Wow. So beautiful.
Longest sleep.
I like this one.
Can you find the bird in this picture?
It's very nicely camouflaged.
This is the common borewhe found in the deserts of North America.
This bird's coloration needs to be exceptionally cryptic because it is the only bird in the world that sees out the winter period by sleeping.
Strictly speaking, the poor will doesn't hibernate, which would involve chemical changes in the body. It simply goes to orbit, allowing its metabolic rate to drop below normal so that it uses less energy.
The poor will can stay in this state for as long as 100 days to avoid the winter cold which diminishes its food supply.
The torpid state reduces the poor's various bodily functions including heart and breathing rates and at the same time the body temperature drops.
This drop can be spectacular from about 40° C to an extraordinary 5° C, the lowest recorded for any species of birds.
This one is cute.
Most voracious appetite.
This is the Cuban toad found in Cuba. Of course, this bird is the fastest eater among both adults and young.
Within a 14hour feeding time in a regular tropical day, a toad catches between 1.1 and 1.9 items every minute.
Some of the things they eat are flies, moths, bees, ants, and grasshoppers.
That adds up to between 924 and up to 1,596 food items a day.
It makes up 40% of their body weight.
Toadies usually have three eggs.
And during the late nesting stage, they deliver food at a higher rate per chick than any other parent bird with an average of 140 ft a day to their young.
Wow, that's a lot of eating.
Best tap routine.
This is the red bellied woodpecker.
Look at the gorgeous colors.
Found in eastern North America.
The bill of a woodpecker is a multi-purpose instrument.
Woodpeckers use pecking for several important purposes.
When looking for food, they peck into the wood to find insects and larae, beetles and ants, leaving behind small irregular marks.
They also break apart nuts or store food in bark crevices.
For communication, they perform rapid rhythmic drumming on resonant surfaces like hollow trees to mark territory and attract mates, especially in late winter and early spring.
They also excavate large smooth holes in dead or decaying wood to create nests.
It can take up to three weeks to create a single hole, but the protection they provide makes these nests especially desirable for whole nesting birds.
Such a unique and fascinating bird.
The noisiest call.
Three waddled bellbird found in Central America.
As you can see in this picture, from the base of his beak tangle three long, slender black waddles that he uses in display.
The threewaddled bellbird is especially famous for its explosive call, which is described as a bonk or bock sound and can reach around 100 dB, making it one of the loud loudest bird calls in the world.
Males produce this sharp single note sound from high perches, often turning their heads as they call to project the sound in different directions.
The call can carry over half a kilometer through dense cloud forest and is used to attract females and establish territory.
Interestingly, populations have slightly different dialects.
with variations in tone and rhythm depending on the region.
That's really cool. Very similar to human language.
Most patient feeder.
The shoe bill is found in central Africa.
You're not going to use a bill like this for anything ordinary.
This aptly named shoe bill is a true specialist.
Feeding almost entirely on lung fish.
These are big sluggish fish.
of well clogged sheltered waterways.
They are not easy to catch being large and awkward to deal with.
For the shoe bill to be successful, it has to be extraordinarily patient.
It sometimes stays completely still for more than half an hour at a time.
Then when it strikes, it lurches its head first at the fish, and the rest of its anatomy follows.
With a bill 7 and 12 in long, it scoops up a huge mouthful.
A lungfish constitutes an ample meal.
And after feeding, the shoe bill can go for several days without food.
Longest legs.
This is the lesser flamingo found in Africa.
It has proportionally the longest legs of any bird.
A flamingo stands up to 5 ft tall, while its legs can be up to 274 in long, accounting for almost half of the height of the bird.
Why does it need such long legs?
Flamingos are specialized filter feeders that eat with their heads upside down in shallow water.
Using their feet to stir up mud, they scoop up water and mud, then use their tongue to pump it through specialized comb like plates in their bill called lameli, trapping food like algae, brine shrimp, Lara and small crustations while letting water flow out.
Their long legs help them wade in deeper water than their competitors to find food.
Ugliest looks.
The title of this one is ugliest looks, but I do not agree.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all.
And I think this bird is rather pretty actually.
This is the Maribou Stark found in subsaharan Africa.
The Maribou Stark is a massive bird.
Large specimens are thought to reach a height of five feet and a weight of 20 pounds.
The maribou stark is a frequent scavenger and the naked head and long neck are adaptations to this livelihood.
They have a large pinkish fleshy throat pouch or waddle that hangs beneath their neck and is used in courtship displays.
From behind, they appear as hunched blackwinged figures, earning them the nickname Undertaker Bird.
Although they are often described unflatteringly, they play an important ecological role as scavengers and natural cleaners within their ecosystem.
That looks snuggly.
The warmest nest.
This bird is the common ider found in circumpolar northern coasts.
Ider ducks are known for building some of the warmest nests in the natural world.
Females line their nests with incredibly soft down plucked from their own chests, creating a highly insulated space that protects their eggs from harsh northern coastal cold.
This down is exceptionally light and efficient at retaining heat.
Often considered one of the best natural insulators, the ider duck sits for 25 to 28 days and rarely leaves her nest.
making minimal effort to feed herself.
If enemies approach, she will abandon the eggs only when the danger is upon her.
Iders typically nest in colonies on coastal islands using grasses, moss, and rocky ground as a base.
Now, this next fact is really cool.
In places like Iceland, there's even a longstanding relationship with humans who protect nesting sites and sustainably collect the down after the ducks have left.
Isn't that neat?
Whoa, look at this one. This is the longest tongue.
The black woodpecker found in Eurasia has an unusually long tongue.
The tongue of this black woodpecker looks almost snake like as the bird prepares to lap up some of its favorite food.
hands. [snorts] The tongue protrudes beyond the tip of their bill further than that of any other bird.
In the case of the black woodpecker, it can amount to a distance of two and a/4 in.
But it isn't only the length that is unusual.
A woodpecker's tongue is capable of independent movement at the tip, which makes it a great weapon for lapping up prey hidden away in holes.
The sublingual gland secretes a sticky fluid that causes food to stick to the tongue's surface.
The tongue is also specially hardened to enable a woodpecker to impale softbodied creatures such as caterpillars or grubs.
The tip is further armed with clusters of three to five backwards pointing barbs or hooks which can cling on to the prey.
Wow, that is so cool and interesting.
What a unique bird.
The greediest berry eater.
The Bohemian wax wing found in the tiger belt of the northern hemisphere is known for eating a lot of berries very quickly.
They are mediumsized, highly social song birds known for their nomadic wandering lifestyle in search of fruit during the winter.
In the winter, it eats between 600 to a,000 berries a day.
which is twice their body weight.
Wow, that's a lot of berries.
Why do they consume so much?
for winter survival.
Bohemian wax wings rely on high sugar frozen berries like mountain ash, juniper, and crab apple when insects are scarce.
They're specially adapted for this diet.
With wide, short intestines to process large amounts of fruit and an enlarged liver that helps handle high sugar levels and even fermented berries.
Wow, that's so cool.
deadliest enemy.
The southern casawary is found in the rainforests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia.
Casawaries are large flightless rainforest dwellers.
Third largest of all living birds after the ostrich and the emu.
As tall as an average person.
They weigh up to 130 lb and can run at 30 m per hour and can leap up to 5 ft in the air.
That's impressive for such a large bird.
They are well equipped to defend themselves.
On top of their head is a thick cask that they use to butt into their enemies, which proves effective against most asalants.
However, it's their claws that are truly deadly.
The casawary has three toes per foot, each one bearing a claw.
The central claw grows up to five ines long and is sharp as a dagger.
These birds look almost prehistoric.
I think their colors are very beautiful though.
Most beautiful feathers.
The Rachana bird of paradise found in New Guinea.
Wow, look at this exquisite beautiful bird.
The Rajana bird of paradise is celebrated for the incredible beauty and variety of its feathers.
especially in the males.
Their most striking features are the long flowing flank plumes which shimmer in fiery shades of orange, red, and gold.
These delicate feathers are soft, airy, and flexible, allowing them to billow outward into a spectacular fan during courtship displays.
Beneath the vibrant plumes, the male's velvety black body feathers create a dramatic contrast that makes the bright colors appear even more radiant in the sunlight.
Their wings and tail are fitted with stronger, more structured flight feathers that help them glide and maneuver through the rainforest canopy while smaller contour feathers smooth and protect the body.
Females, in contrast, are covered in warm brown feathers patterned for camouflage, helping them blend into the forest while nesting.
Together, the many feathered designs of the Rajiana bird of paradise create one of the most dazzling and elegant displays found anywhere in the animal kingdom.
Funniest forager, the Bassian thrash.
Small, cute, and located on the eastern coast of Australia, this unassuming feathered fellow employs a unique method of finding its food source.
It farts.
Yes, you heard that correctly.
It seems as though they intentionally fart while they are feeding.
The sudden jet of air is thought to disturb the earthworms, causing them to contract their bodies and give away their location.
Once that happens, the birds can then quickly turn around and grab them.
On watching more closely, the same observers found that just before squatting, the birds would make another gentler sound, equivalent to the gulping of air.
With their short guts, it appears that the birds can take in and break wind in quick succession, thus forming a mechanism for their astonishing method of foraging.
That's a funny one.
I want to give this bird a hug.
Shortest migration.
The Clark's Nutcracker found in the mountains of western North America.
When people think of migration, they tend to imagine long journeys that take birds north, south, east, or west.
But there is a host of species from whom latitudinal movement is irrelevant.
It's altitude that matters.
An example is the Clark's Nutcracker of Western North America.
which usually breeds between 5,900 and 8,200 ft in altitude, often in woods at the outer edge of the treeine.
This bird is a particularly hardy character that can breed very early in spring when heavy snow is still on the ground.
However, in fall it sometimes retreats a few hundred yards lower down.
This relatively small shift may make all the difference in the bird's survival by taking the edge off the winter cold.
Can this be considered migration?
Absolutely.
Just because it's measured in yards rather than miles does not diminish the migration's effectiveness.
The climate is often radically different at the bottom on mountain ranges in comparison to the top.
I like this one.
Best drummer.
The bomb cockatu found in northern Australia and New Guinea is often considered the best drummer in the animal kingdom.
earning nicknames like the Ringo Star or Dave Gro of the bird world.
Aside from humans, they are the only known animals that make their own tools specifically for creating rhythmic beats as part of courtship displays.
Male palm cockatus snap off sticks or use hard seed pods to craft drumsticks.
They then drum on hollow tree trunks with surprisingly steady timing.
Each male has a distinctive style or signature rhythm.
rather than just random banging.
Often described as a drum solo on a hollow tree trunk.
Research indicates that the taps are almost perfectly spaced over long sequences, mimicking the consistency of human drummers.
Drumming is a crucial mating display, often accompanied by deep boughs and dancing, where males hope to convince a female that a hollow tree is a perfect secure [sighs] home.
This next one is amazing.
The safest nest sight.
The great dusky swift builds its nest in the safest place behind a waterfall found in Central South America.
Great dusky swifts build nests on rocky ledges behind or directly beside roaring waterfalls.
Most famously at Iguasu Falls in South America, these daring birds construct discshaped nests using moss, pebbles, and mud.
Often using saliva as glue.
Preferred spots are on vertical rock walls shielded by the water which protects eggs from predators like falcons.
A single egg is typically laid in the nest.
Pears often return to the same site annually, reusing or renovating the same nest ledge.
Chicks remain in the nest for about six weeks before facing the challenge of flying through the water curtain.
Deepest dive.
The emperor penguin found in the Antarctic.
They can dive deeper underwater than any other bird.
Typically, they plunge 100 to 200 m.
That's 330 to 650 ft into the chilly depths of the southern ocean around Antarctica as they hunt for krill and fish.
The deepest penguin dive on record was more than 550 m.
That's 1800 ft.
In 2013, an emperor carrying an electronic tag stayed underwater for more than half an hour.
breaking previous records by five minutes.
The penguins keep warm with an outer waterproof layer of contour feathers paired with an undercoat of fluffy after feathers and plum mules that trap insulating air next to the skin.
The emperor is the largest of the 18 penguin species.
Adults can weigh up to 40 kg at the start of the breeding season.
How do they stay warm in those icy cold waters?
Penguins have around 70 feathers per square inch.
These short, stiff feathers are packed tightly together and overlap to form a waterproof windresistant barrier.
Beneath the outer feathers is a soft downy layer that traps air against the skin, providing most of their body heat insulation.
A thick layer of fat beneath the skin helps shield their vital organs from freezing ocean temperatures.
Wow, that's so interesting.
The most precarious nest site, the white turn found on tropical islands.
On first seeing this picture, you are probably wondering what that egg is doing there.
There's no nest in sight, just an egg balancing on a branch with an ethereal looking white seabird, staring soothingly at it.
Something is surely not right.
But it is.
This egg is lying where it was laid.
Put there intentionally.
The nest of the white turn is perhaps the most precarious nest site of any bird.
The slightest of bumps would dislodge the egg, causing it to tumble down to the sand below, where it would probably crack.
Yet the turn risks this balancing act for safety's sake to protect its egg from ground predators.
It is common for the egg to be in the canopy of trees 66 feet above ground on a branch that measures 4 to 5 in wide.
turns normally scratch out the bark with their feet to give the egg more balance and they will also lay the egg in a natural depression.
The adults incubate the egg for 28 to 32 days.
Then the youngster hatches.
Fitted with strong claws, a chick can hold on to a branch much better than an egg can.
Longest bill.
The swordbuild hummingbird found in the Andes has the longest bill of any bird in relation to its body length.
The male averages 5 and 12 in long with its bill stretching 4 in.
This extreme adaptation allows it to feed on flowers with very deep narrow nectar tubes such as certain passion flowers and deter species that most other pollinators can't access.
This is a classic example of co-evolution.
Over millions of years, the flowers evolved longer structures, while hummingbirds with slightly longer beaks were better able to reach the nectar and therefore had a survival advantage.
Over time, this created a highly specialized relationship where the bird and certain flowers are essentially matched to each other like a lock and key.
When this swordbuild hummingbird feeds on nectar, pollen sticks to its head and beak.
As it visits the next flower, it transfers that pollen, helping the plant fertilize and create new flowers or fruit.
In this way, the bird and the plant benefit from each other.
The bird gets food and the plant gets to reproduce.
The benefit is reduced competition since few other species can feed from these flowers.
giving the swordbuild hummingbird a relatively exclusive food source in parts of the Andes.
There are tradeoffs though. The beak is too long for pining.
Pining is how birds clean and take care of their feathers.
So, the bird uses its feet to groom itself instead.
It also tends to perch with its bill angled upward, which helps with balance.
Despite its awkward appearance, the beak is highly efficient for feeding within its narrow ecological niche.
Heaviest flyer.
The corey bustard found [snorts] in East and Southern Africa is generally recognized as one of the world's heaviest flying birds with males weighing up to 42 pounds.
That's the weight of a small child.
These large ground dwelling birds are capable of flight, but prefer to walk, flying only when necessary due to their immense weight. They are omnivorous, feeding on insects, small reptiles, mammals, seeds, and berries.
Due to their heavy build, they fly infrequently and are not very agile in the air, preferring to escape danger by running.
Best flock coordination.
The European starling found in much of the northern hemisphere.
It's one of the great sightes in nature.
A huge flock of European starlings, thousands strong, meets up in the winter twilight, and using the sky as its stage, wheels across the airspace in a breathtaking display of aerial coordination.
The phenomenon is called a murmmoration and it's named after the noise that is made by the many flapping wings of a group of starings in flight.
It's not clear why starings make a murmmoration, but researchers recently found that it's most likely to keep them safe from predators.
Starlings form the incredible patterns seen in a mermaid by following simple rules of movement in relation to each other.
When in flight, each starling matches their movements to the birds surrounding it.
If one starling changes its flight direction or speed, the birds around it also change their flight direction or speed.
This change spreads throughout the group and creates the patterns of the murmmoration.
longest time alive.
This one is a really cool bird fact that I didn't know.
The sie turn found widpread across tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.
These birds are renowned for their incredible endurance, remaining airborne for over 4 years, continuously after fletching, only landing to breed.
Yes, that is correct.
City turns have relatively poor feather waterproofing compared to many other seabirds, meaning they cannot safely rest on the water without becoming water logged and losing the ability to fly.
Because of this, they live an almost entirely airborne life, spending months or even years over the open ocean.
They feed by skimming the water's surface while in flight, dipping down to catch small fish and squid rather than diving or floating.
They are also thought to be capable of extremely brief micronaps.
Sometimes just one to two seconds long while still flying, allowing them to rest without landing.
They only return to land to breed, often not until they are between 4 and 10 years old.
In rare situations when they do need to rest, they may briefly settle on floating debris or even on sea turtles.
I know what you're wondering.
How do they sleep while flying?
Well, they use uni hemispheric sleep, resting one half of the brain while the other stays alert, allowing them to glide, navigate, and watch for danger.
That is crazy.
By riding air currents, they conserve energy and can remain airborne for months.
Isn't that incredible?
Will we look at the size of this nest?
Sociable weaver nests are massive permanent communal apartment complexes built by small sparrowsized birds in southern Africa.
These, the world's largest bird nests, can house over 500 birds at one time, weigh up to a ton, and last over 100 years.
That is just incredible.
Resembling large hay stacks stuck in trees.
They are built by using twigs, dry grass, and plant material.
Each family of birds has its own entrance tunnel at the bottom which can be up to 10 in long and 3 in wide.
The nest acts as a natural climate control system with inner chambers staying warm during cold nights [snorts] and outer chambers remaining cooler in the daytime heat.
While desert temperatures outside can swing dramatically.
The temperatures inside the nest stay remarkably stable, usually varying by only about 7 to 8° C.
The roof acts as a defense against predators, while the prickly straw at the entrance deters unwanted visitors.
These nests are constantly maintained and can last for over a century.
That is amazing.
This one has the keenest eyesight.
Look at this regal looking bird.
This is the golden eagle.
Widespread throughout the northern hemisphere, eagles possess some of the sharpest eyesight in the animal kingdom with vision four to eight times stronger than the average human.
They can spot prey from over 3 kilometers.
That's 2 miles away.
Their eyes are nearly the same size as human eyes.
Yet they occupy 50% of the skull, allowing them to function like highowered telephoto lenses for extreme distance, detail, and color detection.
Here are some really cool facts about their eyes.
They have massive retinal cell density.
Their retinas contain 1 million light sensitive cells per square millm resulting in higher resolution and color vividness.
With eyes angled 30° from the middle of their face, eagles have a 340 degree panoramic field of view, much wider than the 180 degree field of humans.
They have a dual focus system.
Eagles have two focal points per eye, one for looking straight ahead and one for peripheral vision, which allow them to scan the landscape and focus on prey simultaneously.
Eagles can see ultraviolet light which helps them detect prey and navigate.
The last fact I'll share is that eagles adjust their vision by rapidly changing the shape of their eye lenses and corneas, allowing them to instantly shift focus between distance and close up, acting as a highowered builtin zoom lens.
Wow, that is crazy how the eagle eyes work.
This bird has the sharpest hearing.
The barn owl found worldwide.
Have you seen one?
Owls are famous for their nocturnal habits.
big eyes and round faces, but they don't see very much better in the dark than we do.
Their truly astonishing talent is their acute hearing.
The barn owl is perfectly able to catch living, fastm moving food in total darkness without using its eyes at all.
How does the barn owl hear so well?
There's a few reasons.
First, asymmetrical ear position.
The right ear is typically higher than the left.
This difference enables the owl to detect precise vertical sound location with sounds from below the line of sight reaching the right ear slightly sooner.
Number two, facial disc structure.
The heartshaped face is composed of stiff dense feathers, the rough that act as a parabolic antenna funneling sound towards the ear openings.
Number three, exceptional sensitivity.
Barn owls can detect sounds up to 10 times softer than what humans can hear.
Their hearing is sensitive enough to locate prey beneath snow or in high grass.
And lastly, rapid neural processing.
Their brains can process a 30 microscond difference in sound arrival times, allowing them to pinpoint the exact source of a sound in threedimensional space.
That is so cool.
And now, if you've made it this far, we've come to the last bird.
The silliest antics.
The Kia found in New Zealand is known for playing.
I love this one.
The Kia is a highly intelligent and curious parrot native to New Zealand's South Island.
Widely known as the world's only albine parrot and famous for its remarkably playful and mischievous behavior.
Often called the clown of the mountains, Kia are renowned for their sometimes destructive play, which includes attacking car windshield wipers, stealing items from tourists, and tossing objects.
Kia are the first known birds to have contagious playfulness.
They use a special warling play call that works much like human laughter, encouraging nearby Kia to join in even if they were previously resting.
Groups of Kia are sometimes called a circus because of their energetic social behavior which includes wrestling, tossing snowballs, play fighting, and performing aerial acrobatics.
Highly intelligent and endlessly curious, Kia often turn everyday objects into toys, investigating cameras, opening doors, and even pulling apart rubber and plastic from parked cars.
Sliding is in fact a favorite pastime in the mountains where they live. They regularly tumble down snowy slopes, sometimes on their backs.
They also slide down windshields and roofs.
Unlike many animals that mostly play when young, Kia remain playful throughout their entire lives.
I hope you will remain playful throughout your entire life, too.
Just because we grow up doesn't mean we should stop playing.
Thank you for joining me on this beautiful spring day.
I had so much fun learning about birds with you.
I'll see you again soon.
Sweet dreams.
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