The 4-Feet-Tall Birds Named Secretary Birds Are So Beautiful And Gorgeous

While it's not known for certain where the name secretary bird comes from, one explanation is that they're named after 19th lawyer's clerks, or secretaries. Secretaries typically wore gray coats and knee-length black pants, and they would tuck quill pens behind their ears, similar to the bird's coloring and head feather. Another theory is that secretary bird is an English-language corruption of saqr et-tair—roughly meaning hunter bird in Arabic a phrase one traveler claims to have heard Arabic-speaking people in Sudan call it. That explanation, however, has been called into doubt by some experts.