SOME COOL FACTS ABOUT BIRDS .

Do birds know how to come back after a long flight ?.

Birds scientists , known as ornithologists , say that birds know exactly where they are and where their nests are . Even the young ones can fly hundreds of nautical miles without losing their way.
How do they do it ?.

God has given them tremendous sense of direction; possibly they have a compass of sorts in their brain . Every year we can see birds from north India fly to south.

In India we have several birds sanctuaries where birds from both parts of the globe come , spend a few months and return when climatic condition in their homeland are more favourable.

When it is winter in the northern hemisphere , it is summer in the southern hemisphere.
The birds which cannot stand the cold climate fly to the warmer regions . They are called migratory birds .

They can fly non-stop up to twenty hours or so in just one stretch and cover a few hundred miles in one stop. These birds generally fly in groups ....