Question

write about different types of birds.

Answer 1

different types of birds are parrots,pegions,crows,peacock,swan,woodpecker,nightangle,humming bird,sparrow etc...

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Answer 2

1. Toucan:

This bird belongs to a family of Ramphastidae. This family is closely related to American barbets. The name of this bird is derived from Portuguese. Toucans mass ranges between 130g -680g and its length lies in between 11.5 inches to 29 inches. Their bodies are short and size is comparable to crow. Its tail is rounded and varies in length to whole body. Its wings are small and neck is thick and short. These birds travel only short distances as they are forest-dwelling birds. Its tongue varies from 14-15 cm which is narrow and grey in color. It even has sensitivity organ of taste.

Toucan’s lives in sub-tropical and tropical regions and native are from Central America, Southern Mexico, northern portion of Caribbean region and South America. As they are arboreal, lays white eggs from 2-21 in their nests. These are generally found in pairs. Toucans are omnivores as their prey includes fruits, insects and small lizards. For feeding their chicks they prefer animal food.

2. King Fisher:

Kingfisher belongs to a family of Alcedinidae and contains three families like Alcedinidae, Halcyonidae and Cerylidae. These families contain river, tree and water kingfishers. There are about 90 species in kingfishers.



3. Swift

Swift belongs to a family of Apodidae of highly aerial birds. Tree swifts are closely related to true swifts. This family is derived from Greek which means footless. These are aerial birds and are fastest fliers and flies about 169 km/h. Common swift can cover at least 200,000 km in single year. Swift has large wingtip bones.


They had flexibility of changing their angle between wingtip bones and fore limbs to alter the shape and area by maximizing their efficiency and maneuverability. They even rotate their wings from base. They live in all continents majorly on oceanic islands. They weigh for 5.4 g- 184 g and measures from 9 cm- 25 cm. in long. The nests of these birds are glued to vertical surface with saliva. Eggs hatch after 19-23 days and leave within six to eight weeks. These are incubated by both parents.

4. Parrot:

Scientific name of parrot is Psittaciformes. Belong to a family of Psittacopasserae. These are mostly found in subtropical and tropical regions. There are about 372 species in existence in 86 general. Their size ranges from 3.5 to 40 inches and mass of about 2.25 to 56 ounces. These birds lives in groups called flocks and each flock contains about 20 -30 birds.



These are omnivores which mean they eat nuts, fruit and insects etc. The clutches of parrot contains only two eggs and incubation period is about 18-30 days. A new born parrot is blind for first two weeks. Chick will become fully mature for 1- 4 years depending on species. Life span of parrot varies from 50- 9 5 years.

5. Humming Bird:



Humming bird is a family member of Trochilidae. And its scientific name is also trochilidae. These are smallest birds which range from 7.5 to 13 cm. These are well known as humming birds because when wings flap and humming sound is created. They can fly in all directions. They primary food is tree sap, pollen, insects and flower nectar. Clutch size contains about 1- 3 eggs. Young starts to fly in 18-30 days.

6. Columbidae:



Doves and pigeons are family members of columbidae. There are about 310 species of doves available. These are considered as symbols of love. They weigh about 900g-2.1 kg. Length of the body ranges for adult male 55cm, 70cm for western crowned pigeon and 13-15 cm for dwarf. Clutch size is about only 1. Its prey includes seed or fruit. They live mostly in tropical nature and wood lands and are adjustable to any nature. Incubation is done by both parents. Male birds make woo-hoo sounds which indicate that they are single.

7. Hornbill:



It is a family member of Bucerotidae. These are mostly found in subtropical of Asia, Africa and Melanesia. Mass of hornbill is up to 6.2 kg and length of body is in between 1 ft- 3 ft 11 inches. There are about 55 species. They are omnivores, eat fruits and insects. Clutches contains about six to eight white eggs. During the whole period of nesting, the male bring 24000 fruits for female. Specific feature of this bird are they have eyelashes.