International Bird Day – January 05

International Bird Day – January 05

The world has been celebrating the birds each January 5th as International Bird Day. It is also known as World Bird Day. It has a global outreach and is an effective tool to help raise global awareness of the threats faced by birds.

The world is filled with a plethora of different species of birds. From cardinals to doves, from parakeets to parrots. Bird, (class Aves), any of the more than 10,400 living species unique in having feathers, the major characteristic that distinguishes them from all other animals. A more – elaborate definition would note that they are warm-blooded vertebrates more related to reptiles than to mammals and that they have a four-chambered heart (as do mammals), forelimbs modified into wings (a trait shared with bats), a hard-shelled egg, and keen vision, the major sense they rely on for information about the environment. Their sense of smell is not highly developed, and auditory range is limited. Most birds are diurnal in habit. More than 1,000 extinct species have been identified from fossil remains. Some eat seeds, berries, fruit, insects, other birds, eggs, small mammals, fish, buds, larvae, aquatic invertebrates, acorns and other nuts, aquatic vegetation, grain, dead animals, garbage, and much more.

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