True or False: Flamingos Are Born Pink?

If you look around, you will see a large variety of living organisms, including plants, birds, and other animals. Did you know that there are approximately 11,000 recognised living species of birds across the world? India has more than 1,200 species of birds. 

Here is a quick overview of birds, their anatomy, habitats, and behaviour. Birds have feathers, light hollow bones, wings, and beaks. They build nests to lay eggs. 

Here is a quick true or false quiz to check common misconceptions and key topics, like do all birds fly or do all birds have hollow bones? Take this GK quiz on Jagran Josh to test your knowledge of birds.

Here are 10 true or false quiz questions with answers. Can you answer them all correctly? Let's see how many you can answer.

True or False: Flamingos Are Born Pink?

1. All birds can fly. True or False?

False. Not all birds can fly. Penguins, ostriches, and kiwis cannot fly.

2. Ostriches are super-fast runners. True or False?

True. Ostriches are known as the fastest birds on earth. They can run upto speeds of up to 64 ti 72 kilometers per hours.

3. Hummingbirds is the only bird that can fly backward. True or False?

True. Hummingbirds, unlike other birds, can fly backward. Their wings can rotate 180 degrees which allows them to fly backwards, forward, sideways, and even upside down.

4. A group of owls is called a flock. True or False?

False. A group of owls is called a parliament.

5. Crows can recognise human faces. True or False?

True. Crows can recognise human faces. They have really good memories. They can remember what others birds and people look like. They know who has been nice to them and who threatened them.

6. Birds have teeth to chew food. True or False?

False. Birds do not have teeth. They have beaks and a gizzard to grind food.

7. Owls can turn their heads 360 degrees. True or False?

False. Owls can turn their heads only 270 degrees in either direction.

8. Penguins are incredible swimmers, and some can even dive as deep as 1,000 feet. True or False?

True. Penguins can dive to depths of upto 1,000 to 2,000 feet. The deepest recorded of an Emperor penguin, the deepest-diving bird specieis, was recorded at 1,850 feet.

9. Flamingos are born pink. True or False?

False. Flamingos are born gray and turn pink over time due to the food they eat.

10. Ducks are capable of flying at altitudes exceeing 20,000 feet. True or False?

True. While most ducks migrate at lower altitudes (200 to 4,000 feet), certain duck species such as the ruddy shelduck have been found to be reaching up to approximately 22,000 feet while migrating over the Himalayas.

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