Essays on Birds

Introduction Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus is a large bird belonging to the family Phoenicopteridae (Grimmette et.al. 1998). Although the birds are large, excessively long-legged marsh birds with very long slender necks and peculiar thick lamellate bills sharply down curved or “broken” in the middle. Their…

What’s nice about birding or birdwatching is that some people consider it a sport, for some they call it a hobby, and then there’s some who tagged it an obsession. Whatever you think it is, we just know it’s a thing. Technically, birding is a…

Of the vertebrates, birds of the class Aves are the most noticeable, the most melodious and the most beautiful. Birds with more than nine thousand species far put number other vertebrate groups except fishes” . (Hickman P.C Jr , et.al pg 582). Birds are the…

Global Warming is making our temperatures and ocean levels to rise at a rapid rate (Carey 3321). This behavior has become a threat to our biodiversity. Biodiversity is defined as the basis of all life on planet earth. The term biodiversity has become a popular…

Fossil Discovery Impacts Theory on Evolution of Birds and Flight In the past few decades, the hypothesis that birds evolved from dinosaurs has been widely accepted by many scientists because of fossil evidence. Now scientists are looking for ways to prove the origin of flight…