Birds Keep Our Ecosystems Running Smoothly Birds disperse seeds, spreading plants into new areas. Birds such as hummingbirds help pollinate plants. Birds like hawks and owls help keep the mouse and rat population in check. Birds eat millions of mosquitoes and other biting insects each year.

Birds face many obstacles while in flight, but they fly and risk their lives every day. And this is a great piece of education for kids to remember. We can all do amazing things if we just take the plunge and ignore our worries. Birds should learn from their blunders just as much as people do.

Peter Kaestner Breaks the 10,000 Bird Barrier! - American Birding Association.

They fly, forage, interact with each other and with their environment, court, raise young, deal with danger, and undertake mind blowing migrations, just to name a few of the fascinating things birds do.