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Facts about A Bird

All birds have feathers and birds are the only animals that do! Feathers do many jobs for birds. Soft down keeps them warm, wing feathers allow flight and tail feathers are used for steering. The color of the feathers can be used to hide the bird or to help the bird find a boyfriend or a girlfriend!

Like other birds, penguins have feathers. ... Penguins are fish, mammals, or amphibians because they live in water, on land, or both. Penguins are birds, even though they spend time on land and in water. Their motion in the water more closely resembles flying than the swimming motion used by other animals.

They are black and white flightless seabirds of the family Spheniscidae which are found in the southern hemisphere, chiefly in the Antarctic (although several species live in more temperate regions). In common with other birds, penguins have feathers, lay eggs, and arewarm-blooded.

An ostrich is a bird. ... No, ostriches aren't mammals because they don't have fur like animals and and they don't have teeth like mammals do. They do not nurse their young, as mammals do. Ostriches, though they don't fly, are classified as birds .

The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family.