A Bad Hair Day Is A Common Phenomenon For The Snowy Egret, Which Is Remarkable When You Consider They

A Bad Hair Day is a common phenomenon for the Snowy Egret, which is remarkable when you consider they don't have any hair at all.

Birds in the Big City have their flight options reduced by the sheer density of urban life, so they must seek alternative forms of exercize.

Once believed to be a mysteriously not dead plesiosaur, the Loch Ness Monster has finally been unmasked as various sightings of Double-crested Cormorants. The classic photograph of ‘Nessie’ taken at a distance of over a hundred yards turns out to have been in reality a poorly-focussed cormorant mere feet away.

In times of plenty, Kingfisher birds can forgo their more active hunting methods in favour of simply waiting on an outcropping near water, beak agape.

That air pumped by their air sacs also flows through their hollow bones. 

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Grebes are unique among birds for their possession of both a syrinx (the normal noise-making apparatus for birds) and a larynx. This remarkable adaptation allows some species (like the Horned Grebe, pictured above) to emit pulses of shaped sound capable of stunning small fish who wander too close to the water's surface.