Given that their long, orange-colored legs lack feathers, you can often see these birds balancing on one leg in a field. #5: Canada Goose The Canada goose ( Branta canadensis ) is one of the most ...

Steve Byland / Shutterstock. The black-necked stilt stands out for its impressively long pink legs. Second only to flamingos, these small birds have the longest legs in proportion to their bodies ...

Glossy ibis are birds I never expect to see around here - they look like they should be hanging out in the tropics, wading through some Amazonian mudflats with their long spindly legs or swooping ...

For a start, we know that some small dinosaurs had long feathers on their legs as well as their arms. And now, 11 newly analysed fossils tell us that some early birds shared the same feature.