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Welcome. Be prepared to be amazed as you discover amazing facts about the so called everyday thing around you
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1 Editorial
2 Article Birds
3 Did
you Know quick Fact / Question
4 Feedback from readers
5 Recommended Newsletters and Sites
6 Contact and please subscribe
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Editorial
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It is the end of January already. So far the winter has been very mild and spring will soon be here. I am ready
to work in the garden, to plant seeds and divide plants, but I must be patient, we could still have a cold snap.
Birds
have always given me great pleasure and research for this article reminded me of their diversity, usefulness and their ability
to adapt. When birds migrate they need to stop, rest and refuel, just as we do on a long journey,
it is very important
that we help to protect the wetlands, fields and forests they use as resting places.
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Birds
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Can you imagine a world without birds
and I don’t mean life without eggs for breakfast. We would not hear the dawn chorus, or spend hours during the winter
being entertained by them at feeders in our gardens. We would miss them when we walked in the woods or on the seashore.
They help to keep down the insect
population and to spread seeds. We need birds in our lives from the tiny jeweled hummingbird
to the giant albatross to remind us of the diversity on this planet. For some it is a very serious and expensive hobby, for
others it is free, no equipment needed.
Take the time to enjoy the birds you see all around you, from those in your garden
to the flocks roosting on telephone wires or trees. Throughout the world
birds do strange and amazing things. The following article will mention only a few species, I encourage you to find out more
about creatures whose habitat ranges from some of the most inhospitable regions on earth to tropical forests.
Timed
to run together
The ancient murrelet does not feed its young on land. They hatch and for the first day, feed off
their egg sac. Then, at dead of night, two days after the chicks hatched, the parents fly out to sea, calling their young
to follow with a continuous
sparrow-like chirping. The fluffy black and white chicks, still unable to fly or feed on their
own, pour in a living flood down the hillsides. They evade killer mice and insomniac ravens, and hurtle for the surf like
downy toys on clockwork legs, heeding the call of their parents. They don't stop when they reach the water, but pursue their
parents into the breakers and swim five miles out to sea. There the parents feed them for a few more weeks until they can
fly.
11,000 miles
The Arctic tern breeds in the Arctic Circle and then migrates to the Antarctic
ice pack, 11,000 miles with no passport or paperwork. What a journey.
Flamingos are so highly specialized that they
can live in the 60C (140F) hot, shallow soda lakes and salt lagoons in Africa.
Did you know that there is a bird that
hibernates? The common poorwill in North America remains undetected in sheltered crevices and drops its body temperature
in order to survive for 100 days on the same fat reserves that would sustain it for 10 days if it was awake. Now that is a
good way to deal with winter.
An albatross does not mature for 10 – 12 years and can live up to 60 years, producing
a chick only once every 2 – years.
Bar headed geese breed in Tibet and need to fly at over 18,000 feet, that
is more than three miles, to get through the Himalayan passes.
Now they really are high fliers.
Being
able to fly limits the size of the egg that can be laid.An ostrich egg weighs 3 lbs. The brown kiwi of New Zealand lays 2-3
huge eggs, weighing nearly a quarter of it's own body weight, perhaps the largest eggs in proportion to the
mother bird's
size. The egg of the largest flying bird, the mute swan, in comparison weighs a mere six ounces. When I tell you that the
humming birds builds a nest the size of a large walnut, you can picture the size of the two eggs laid each spring.
David
Attenborough and his team have produced a wonderful web site documenting the various programmes aired on television.
http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/making
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Did You Know Quick Fact / Question
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The Golden Plover flies from Alaska
to Hawaii. A nonstop flight across open sea. This bird cannot swim, so that a stop for a rest is impossible. This is a distance
of at least 2,500 miles takes 88 hours and involves no less than a quarter-million
consecutive wing beats!
There
is a great deal more information about how the plover makes this amazing journey on this site. In theory the bird should run
out of fuel, but it does not. Find out how at http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Bird_Facts.htm
4 Reader Feedback
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I'm Kate, I live in England and I enjoy gardening, reading
and films.
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Welcome to Alberta. Thank you for your patience.
From Linda Offenheiser
Fascinating issue! Thanks for teaching
me so much I didn't know about fish. The sea is, indeed, full of mystery.
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To help provide a free
mammogram for an underprivileged
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cent! And just think
if it were your mother, daughter,
wife or friend (I discovered that you can reach the
Animal Rescue site and a few others
from this link,
so go ahead and visit all of the ones you'd like to support.)
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