--- title: "Bird Animals (Page 2 of 4) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Feathered bipedal vertebrates with lightweight hollow bones, toothless beaks, and high metabolic rates." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bird/page/2/" --- # Bird Animals (Page 2 of 4) > Feathered bipedal vertebrates with lightweight hollow bones, toothless beaks, and high metabolic rates. **73 species in this collection.** - [European Herring Gull](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-herring-gull/) (*Larus argentatus*) - **Superpower**: Paddles its feet on the ground to flush worms to the surface - **Musical Match**: Eurythmics (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [European Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-robin/) (*Erithacus rubecula*) - **Superpower**: A light-sensitive retinal protein called cryptochrome 4 that may let the robin sense Earth's magnetic field through quantum chemistry, a mechanism researchers are still working to confirm. - **Musical Match**: Vashti Bunyan (Pastoral Folk & Progressive Bluegrass) - [European Starling](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-starling/) (*Sturnus vulgaris*) - **Superpower**: A voicebox with two independent sound sources, which in males handle mostly low notes on the left and higher ones on the right, plus six distinct flock escape patterns under falcon attack - **Musical Match**: NewJeans (Hyperpop & Kawaii Future Bass) - [European Storm Petrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-storm-petrel/) (*Hydrobates pelagicus*) - **Superpower**: Runs on stomach oil while incubating (if that oil supplies all its energy, it accounts for 76% of the weight lost each day on the nest), and its chicks can apparently recognize their own body odor - **Musical Match**: Tokio Hotel (2000s Pop-Rock & Emo) - [Gentoo Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gentoo-penguin/) (*Pygoscelis papua*) - **Superpower**: Bimodal diving: in one tracking study, shallow dives averaged 4 metres and deep dives 80 metres - **Musical Match**: Backstreet Boys (90s Pop & Eurodance) - [Gouldian Finch](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gouldian-finch/) (*Chloebia gouldiae*) - **Superpower**: A small stretch of DNA near the Follistatin gene that sets red or black head color, plus chick beak nodules that reflect light to help parents feed them in the dark - **Musical Match**: Elton John (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Great Blue Heron](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-blue-heron/) (*Ardea herodias*) - **Superpower**: Waits for fish to swim near, then strikes with a rapid thrust of its bill - **Musical Match**: Phil Collins (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Great Cormorant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-cormorant/) (*Phalacrocorax carbo*) - **Superpower**: A fast, agile underwater swimmer with wettable feathers and low buoyancy - **Musical Match**: Tom Tom Club (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Great Crested Grebe](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/great-crested-grebe/) (*Podiceps cristatus*) - **Superpower**: A head-shaking courtship duet that can include a breast-to-breast 'Penguin-dance' - **Musical Match**: ABBA (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Greater Flamingo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-flamingo/) (*Phoenicopterus roseus*) - **Superpower**: A filter-feeding bill that works with the head upside down, in water with a pH of up to 11 - **Musical Match**: Timecop1983 (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Greater Roadrunner](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-roadrunner/) (*Geococcyx californianus*) - **Superpower**: Runs at up to 20 mph, smashes prey against rocks, and saves energy by basking black skin on its back in the sun. - **Musical Match**: Cassyette (Alt-Metal & Nu-Rock) - [Grey Heron](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-heron/) (*Ardea cinerea*) - **Superpower**: Typically waits for prey to come within striking range, then generally swallows it whole - **Musical Match**: Mitski (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Grey Parrot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-parrot/) (*Psittacus erithacus*) - **Superpower**: One bird, Griffin, outperformed 5-year-olds on a cup-logic test - **Musical Match**: Bobby McFerrin (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion) - [Helmeted Guineafowl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/helmeted-guineafowl/) (*Numida meleagris*) - **Superpower**: A very loud alarm call that warns other birds and surrounding fauna - **Musical Match**: Jessie Ware (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Hoatzin (Stinkbird)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hoatzin/) (*Opisthocomus hoazin*) - **Superpower**: A crop that digests leaves with bacteria in a process akin to a ruminant's, and chicks with wing claws that climb back to the nest if they drop into water to escape predators. - **Musical Match**: Talking Heads (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [House Sparrow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-sparrow/) (*Passer domesticus*) - **Superpower**: Evolving regional differences in color and size in new lands - **Musical Match**: Johann Sebastian Bach (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Indian Peafowl](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/indian-peafowl/) (*Pavo cristatus*) - **Superpower**: Train-rattling: stridulating the tail feathers against the train at 25.6 Hz on average, a broadband, pulsating sound whose very low components (20 Hz and below) peafowl have been shown to perceive in playbacks. - **Musical Match**: Lorde (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Kea (Alpine Parrot)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/kea/) (*Nestor notabilis*) - **Superpower**: Uses relative quantities to predict odds, as human infants and chimpanzees do, plus a love of tinkering that often turns on taps and has been known to wreck car wipers. - **Musical Match**: Dropkick Murphys (Celtic Punk & Folk Riot) - [King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-of-saxony-bird-of-paradise/) (*Pteridophora alberti*) - **Superpower**: A male's two head plumes, each about 50 centimeters long, controlled by muscles housed in small skull depressions - **Musical Match**: Lady Gaga (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [King Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-penguin/) (*Aptenodytes patagonicus*) - **Superpower**: Carries its single egg on its feet for about 54 days, and tracked birds have dived past 240 meters. - **Musical Match**: Yann Tiersen (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Laughing Kookaburra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/laughing-kookaburra/) (*Dacelo novaeguineae*) - **Superpower**: A heavy, boat-shaped bill that grabs a snake behind the head and smashes it against a branch or the ground to kill it. - **Musical Match**: Courtney Barnett (Indie Rock & Jangle Pop) - [Magnificent Frigatebird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/magnificent-frigatebird/) (*Fregata magnificens*) - **Superpower**: Non-Waterproof Flight and Mid-Air Food Piracy - **Musical Match**: The Black Keys (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Mallard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mallard/) (*Anas platyrhynchos*) - **Superpower**: Hens lay larger eggs after mating with a preferred male - **Musical Match**: *NSYNC (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem) - [Mandarin Duck](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mandarin-duck/) (*Aix galericulata*) - **Superpower**: An ordinary flight feather that regrows into a showy sail every breeding season, and tree-hole nests up to nine meters high - **Musical Match**: Katy Perry (2010s Pop & Electropop) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bird/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bird/page/3/