Birds that start with D

The dodo was a large, flightless bird with a heavy body, a short beak, and grayish-brown feathers. It lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Dodos walked on the ground, ate fruits and other plants, and foraged for food in forests. They are now extinct.

A duck is a kind of small to medium water bird, related to the much larger goose and swan. Ducks can be found around water all over the world, in rivers, ponds and even the sea. Ducks eat water plants, small fish and snails. A male duck is called a drake and a baby duck is called a duckling.