A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler ... as well as aquatic vegetation. And the glorious feathers? They seem to exist purely for our delight, but in fact they ...

MIKE: Birds of prey are really special ... For example: birds have feathers, a beak, lay eggs and can fly; reptiles have scales, are cold-blooded and lay eggs on the ground.

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled ... Carnivores – Animals which eat meat. Birds of prey like owls and hawks are carnivores and eat animals and other birds.

Imagine jet fighters gliding invisibly, twisting and turning like birds of prey in the sky ... Lentink’s earlier research showed that feathers aren’t just decorative — they play an active ...