Transcript Birds

Birds
Bird of Paradise
Beaks and feet are adapted for survival needs
More Beaks
More Feet
External anatomy
Feathers
Feathers are made
Of dead cells
Four chambered heart
Tongue has a bone in it
Most birds have tongues, though unlike ours. A
bird's tongue has 5 bones in it that support and
strengthen it, together they are called the 'Hyoid
apparatus'.
Hollow Bones
Mostly use keen eyesight to find food
Owl eyes
Hawk eye
Eat: insects, worms, small mammals, fish, grain,
nectar, microscopic blue-green bacteria, seeds, fruit,
insects, other birds, mice monkeys and remains of
dead animals
Some have lost the
ability to fly in the air
Emperor penguins
Ostrich
Rhea
Lay hard shell eggs after internal fertilzation
embryo: organism in early development
Yolk – food for embryo
albumin – liquid environment for embryo
Many migrate for food supply and climate protection
All have a crop for storing food
All have a gizzard for grinding food
Have extra air sacks to keep them in better oxygen supply
Largest: ostrich smallest: hummingbirds
Orders
Tropical
Flightless
Song
Water/Shorebirds
Game Birds
Tropical Birds
usually very colorful (both male and
female)
found in tropical environment
not migrators
examples: Mawcaws, African
Grey’s, parrots
Flightless
•Examples: Ostrich, penguins,
rheas
•Forewings have lost ability to fly,
most are either fast runners or
swim
Song Birds
•fly at altitudes of 150
feet or less
•fly slower than other
bird (23-30 miles per
hour)
•males are more
brightly colored
•usually seed or insect
eaters
•are most endangered
group of birds
Water/ Shorebirds
live on water or have long legs to wade
long beaks
eat fish or something in water
examples: pelican, seagull, flamingo, ibis
Water birds, con’t
White faced ibis
Scarlett Ibis
Game Birds
example: geese, prairie
chicken, pheasant
live in tall or short
grasses
often used as food for
humans
Raptors
•Hawks, eagles, owls
•Talons
•Meat eaters
•Soaring flight
•Fast flight
•Keen eyesight