Birds Around Us

These are 10 birds and some information on them.

1. Birds Around Us

2. Nightingale Nightingales  sing even more loudly in urban or near-urban environments, in order to overcome the background noise. The most characteristic feature of the song is a loud whistling crescendo, absent from the song of thrush   nightingale . It has a frog-like alarm call.

3. Cuckoos The cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae , the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels , malkohas , couas , coucals and anis . The coucals and anis are sometimes separated as distinct families, the Centropodidae and Crotophagidae respectively.

4. Peacock Peacocks  are large, colorful pheasants (typically blue and green) known for their iridescent tails. These tail feathers, or coverts, spread out in a distinctive train that is more than 60 percent of the bird's total body length and boast colorful "eye" markings of blue, gold, red, and other hues.

5. Chaffinch The  chaffinch  is one of the most widespread and abundant  bird  in Britian and Ireland. Its patterned plumage helps it to blend in when feeding on the ground and it becomes most obvious when it flies, revealing a flash of white on the wings and white outer tail feathers.

6. Wood Pigeon Though  wood pigeon  is the most commonly used name, this bird is also known as the woody, cushat , cushy-do, quist , ringdow and ring dove. It's by far the most numerous large wild bird in Britain, with a population estimated at around 2.5 million pairs.

7. Sparrow They are small passerine birds which belong to the family Passeridae . They are also known as old-world  sparrows .  Sparrows  often make their nests near houses or buildings. This means they are one of the easiest birds to see in the wild .

8. Woodpecker The  woodpecker  has a tough, pointed beak which it uses to chip on bark, drum on trees, and find insects. The tip of their bill is chisel-shaped and sharp from all the pecking on wood. The tongue of a  woodpecker  can span up to four inches long. On its tongue is a glue-like substance which helps in extracting insects.

9. Ducks Ducks  are birds that are also called “waterfowls” because they are normally found in places with water like marshes, oceans, rivers, ponds, and lakes. Ducks  are related to geese and swans, but the  duck  is the smallest of them all.  Ducks  have shorter necks and wings than other waterfowl, and they also have a stout body.

10. Flamingo Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae , the only bird family in the order Phoenicopteriformes . Four flamingo species are distributed throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean, and two species are native to Africa, Asia, and Europe.

11. Ostrich The common ostrich or simply ostrich, is a species of large flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa. It is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus Struthio in the ratite order of birds.

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