caroljoyce wrote:My mind boggles - however do you know that Pooh?
Age 8.... I was given 'The Observers Book of British Birds'...been a keen ornithologist ever since....
Which bird lays the largest egg in comparison to it's body weight?....see below...up to a third of it's body weight
Very few birds have a sense of smell...some vultures,pigeons and geese and a few others...the Kiwi has nostrils at the end of it's beak to sniff out worms in the leaf litter.The tales of birds smelling your scent if you handle their eggs are old wives tales.
