The document provides information about different types of birds found around the world. It discusses the nightingale and its loud singing in urban areas to overcome noise. It also describes cuckoos as a family of birds that includes roadrunners, koels and coucals. Peacocks are described as large, colorful pheasants known for their iridescent tails over 60% of their body length. The chaffinch is one of the most common birds in Britain and Ireland with patterned plumage helping it blend in on the ground. Wood pigeons are the most numerous large wild bird in Britain with an estimated population of 2.5 million pairs. Sparrows are small passerine birds that often

1. Birds Around Us

2. Nightingale
Nightingales sing even more
loudly in urban or near-urban
environments, in order to
overcome the background noise.
The most characteristic
feature of the song is a loud
whistling crescendo, absent
from the song of
thrush nightingale. It has a
frog-like alarm call.

3. Cuckoos
The cuckoos are a family of
birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon
in the order Cuculiformes. The
cuckoo family includes the
common or European cuckoo,
roadrunners, koels, malkohas,
couas, coucals and anis. The
coucals and anis are sometimes
separated as distinct families,
the Centropodidae and
Crotophagidae respectively.

4. Peacock
Peacocks are large, colorful
pheasants (typically blue and
green) known for their
iridescent tails. These tail
feathers, or coverts, spread out
in a distinctive train that is
more than 60 percent of the
bird's total body length and
boast colorful "eye" markings of
blue, gold, red, and other hues.

5. Chaffinch
The chaffinch is one of the
most widespread and
abundant bird in Britian and
Ireland. Its patterned
plumage helps it to blend in
when feeding on the ground
and it becomes most obvious
when it flies, revealing a
flash of white on the wings
and white outer tail feathers.

6. Wood Pigeon
Though wood pigeon is the
most commonly used name, this
bird is also known as the
woody, cushat, cushy-do, quist,
ringdow and ring dove. It's by
far the most numerous large
wild bird in Britain, with a
population estimated at around
2.5 million pairs.

7. Sparrow
They are small passerine
birds which belong to the
family Passeridae. They are
also known as old-
world sparrows. Sparrows oft
en make their nests near
houses or buildings. This
means they are one of the
easiest birds to see in the
wild.

8. Woodpecker
The woodpecker has a tough,
pointed beak which it uses to
chip on bark, drum on trees,
and find insects. The tip of
their bill is chisel-shaped and
sharp from all the pecking on
wood. The tongue of
a woodpecker can span up to
four inches long. On its tongue
is a glue-like substance which
helps in extracting insects.

9. Ducks
Ducks are birds that are also
called “waterfowls” because they
are normally found in places with
water like marshes, oceans,
rivers, ponds, and lakes.
Ducks are related to geese and
swans, but the duck is the
smallest of them all. Ducks have
shorter necks and wings than
other waterfowl, and they also
have a stout body.

10. Flamingo
Flamingos or flamingoes are a
type of wading bird in the
family Phoenicopteridae, the
only bird family in the order
Phoenicopteriformes. Four
flamingo species are
distributed throughout the
Americas, including the
Caribbean, and two species are
native to Africa, Asia, and
Europe.

11. Ostrich
The common ostrich or
simply ostrich, is a
species of large flightless
bird native to certain
large areas of Africa. It
is one of two extant
species of ostriches, the
only living members of
the genus Struthio in the
ratite order of birds.

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