Discover strange facts about waterbirds: flamingos, herons, pelicans, storks, cranes, swans, and the wading and diving birds that dominate wetlands worldwide.
Explore the world of waterbirds, from flamingos turning pink through carotenoid-rich diets to the whooping crane's recovery from 21 birds. Expert-written guide covering herons, pelicans, storks, cranes, ibises, spoonbills, kingfishers, and the wetland ecosystems they depend on.
Flamingos get their pink color from pigments in their food, not from their DNA. Expert guide to flamingo coloration, filter-feeding, and why they stand on one leg.
Everything about the mute swan: size, habitat, diet, lifelong pair bonds, Crown ownership, singing wings, aggression, and the strange facts that make Cygnus olor one of the heaviest flying birds on Earth.
Everything about the great blue heron: size, habitat, lightning-fast S-strike hunting, rookeries, powder down feathers, white morphs, and the strange facts that make Ardea herodias the largest heron in North America.
Everything about the greater flamingo: pink pigmentation, filter-feeding biology, lek courtship dances, crop milk, salt-lake habitats, and the strange facts that define Phoenicopterus roseus.
Everything about the American white pelican: size, habitat, cooperative fishing, the 11-litre gular pouch, migration, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Pelecanus erythrorhynchos one of the largest flying birds on Earth.
