Since I kind of forgot to finish, this is coming out a couple years late, but Birds N-Z is finally ready. This post will tell you about nightingales to pitohuis to zapata rails and Xavier’s hummingbird.
Nightingales
A very good minstrel in the bird world, these birds know over 200 songs a piece, and each one is long and complex. They generally sing at night, and more during mating season. They are hard to spot and very good with stealth, so don’t expect to see one of these without searching hard.
Ostrich
Everyone’s heard of the biggest bird in the world: The ostrich! This bird is an extremely fast runner, but can’t fly. It is definitely something you should stay away from, because these deadly fighters aren’t scared to get close to humans.
Pitohuis
The pitohui is known for being as toxic as they come, and touching one can cause your fingers to numb due to a powerful neurotoxin that they source from poisonous insects and other things in nature that they consume.
Quail
The state bird of California, these quirky birds can fly, but normally choose to run. Popular gamebirds, these creatures are known for their flesh and eggs as being delicious, but that has been minimized thanks to modern hunting permits that legalize only those who have them to eat these crowned birds.
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Ravens
Some of the smartest creatures on the planet, they are skilled in tool utilization, problem solving, and other abilities. While they are mixed up with crows, crows are much smaller, and ravens can be found across the planet except Antarctica, while crows are also not found in some Pacific Islands and the south of South America.
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Sparrow
While these common birds are adaptable, social, and relatively intelligent, they are relatively short lived and have many predators, including hawks, cats, and snakes.
Toucan
A relatively famous bird species and associated with parrots because of their bright beaks, these birds are actually not very intelligent and like to fight with each other and call out loudly, waking the entire rainforest habitat they live in. They generally live on fruit in trees.
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Ultramarine Kingfisher
Kingfishers are interesting birds that eat fish from lakes like ducks and heron. They have a large tuft of hair on their head that looks like they intended to make it stick straight up. Ultramarine kingfishers are exactly the color that you would imagine them to be: Ultramarine. They are eaten by weasels, cats, and birds of prey.
Vulture
Vultures are carrion birds, which means they eat anything dead they find, including other vultures. Andean Condors are the biggest birds in the world, and live in the Andes, as their name suggest. Many species of vulture are critically endangered, so do what you can to help.
Woodpeckers
Woodpeckers are a famous bird known for their loud knocking on wood. This sound can be heard from very far away, and these birds beaks on trunks of trees are to break the bark and eat the insects inside.
Xavier’s Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds that can fly backwards and hover, which is completely unique to them. These birds pollinate, something usually only invertebrates do, but these birds are also unique because of that. They live primarily on the nectar they get from plants, and are the smallest birds.
Yellow-Eyed Penguin
Penguins are creatures that are famous for their swimming, something not unique to birds but unique to flightless birds. They live primarily off of fish and live in any coastal regions in the southern hemisphere, though it is a common misconception that they only live in the cold.
Zapata Rails
A critically endangered bird, these creatures can only survive in a very specific habitat that there isn’t much of. They are nearly flightless, and they are a type of zapata bird.
That is the end of this two post essay on ornithology. I might come back with more on this topic, but I probably will post next on something about human history.