Bird Basics
This is the feature that makes a bird a bird.
What are feathers?
This is a strip of color that crosses a bird's wing horizontally.
What is a wingbar?
This is a single sound that a bird makes.
What is a bird call?
This is the act of an animal moving from on location to another based on weather and food availability.
What is migrating?
This is the term for the ability to keep a steady body temperature.
What is warm-blooded?
This is a tuft of feathers that stand up on the top of a birds head.
What is a crest?
This is a series of notes that have a pattern.
What is a bird song?
This is the ability for a bird to reach it's destination without getting lost.
What is a homing instinct?
This is a person who studies birds for a living.
What is an ornithologist?
This is when a bird loses its old feathers and replaces them with new feathers.
What is molting?
This is the name for a bird's voice box--the more muscles attached here, the more sounds a bird can make.
What is a syrinx?
Not sure where their favorite birds were going for half the year, ancient scientists, such as Aristotle believed that birds dug holes and crawled into muddy holds to do this during the winter.
What is hibernate?
This is a specially organized book about birds that allows you to identify birds.
What is a field guide?
This is the maintenance that a bird does for its feathers that includes stroking and nibbling its feathers to keep them in tip top shape.
What is preening?
This is the loud noises a bird makes by tapping on trees, drainpipes, poles, tin roofs or other materials, used to communicate or establish territory.
What is drumming?
These are large structures that don't move that we, and our feathered friends, use to navigate without getting lost.
What are landmarks?
These are the unique colors, shapes, and features of a bird that separates one bird's appearance from another.
What is a field mark?
These are the chemicals that give bird's feathers specific colors.
What are pigments?
This type of bird can imitate the sounds of many other birds.
What is a mockingbird?
Also used by sailors on the high seas, birds use these patterns of stars to navigate.
What are constellations?