So yesterday on the plane ride from Denver to La Guardia they played 500 days of Summer. While I did not watch that, I did watch the tv show after it about the more obscure islands in the Pacific. The narrator talked about how plants and animals had come to inhabit such islands like Fiji and the Solomons. He also came up with some random facts. One of which being about some kind of Tern that didn't have to land for up to 4 years! How crazy!
After hearing that I decided to look into other random bird facts. Here are some of my favorites curtosy of http://www.trails.com/arts/amazing-bird-records.aspx
rarest bird in the world: ivory-billed woodpecker, Jerdon's courser
highest price paid for a bird book: $3.96 million (U.S.) for a set of John James Audubon's The Birds of America in 1989
highest price paid for a mounted bird: 9,000 British pounds for an extinct great auk by the Natural History Museum of Iceland on 1971
country with the most introduced species: United States (Hawaii) with 68
longest-lived captive bird: sulfur-crested cockatoo at over 80 years
largest domesticated bird: ostrich
earliest domesticated bird: jungle fowl at 3200 BC
heaviest domestic turkey: 37 kg (81 lb)
foulest smelling nest: Eurasian hoopoe
longest fasting period: 134 days for incubating male emperor penguins
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