Types of Birds
Biological Taxonomy
Vocabulary
Physical
Bird Adaptations
Bird Adaptations
Name that bird!
100
Smaller birds often with perching feet, seed or insect catching beaks, elliptical wings, and complex songs.
Examples include American Robins, Black Capped Chickadees, and Gold Finches.
What are Songbirds?
100
The kingdom which consists of all plant species, including ferns, moss, and flowering plants.
What is Plante?
100
The science of naming and classifying organisms into organized groups based on shared traits
What is Biological Taxonomy?
OR
What is Taxonomy?
100
The outermost part of a bird, usually colorful. The color of which can be used for camouflage, signaling, temperature regulation, and more.
What are feathers?
OR
What is Plumage?
100
A bird named after it brilliantly colored neck-feathers.
What is a Ruby-throated hummingbird?
200
Carnivorous hunters with hooked beaks, strong talons and strong eyesight. Many have talons to rip apart thier prey.
Examples include Red Tailed Hawks, Barn Owls, and Peregrine Falcons.
What are Birds of Prey?
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What are Raptors?
200
The class in which all birds are under.
What is Aves?
200
A characteristic that defines an animal, plant, or other living thing.
What is a Trait?
200
The feet shape which allows songbirds to sleep while perching without having to worry about falling off.
What are Perching Feet.
200
A bird named after its woeful bird call.
What is a Mourning dove?
300
Aquatic birds with webbed feet and various billed beaks. Typically found near freshwater sources.
Examples include Canada Geese Mallard Ducks, and White Swans
What are Waterfowl?
300
The 4th broadest level of taxonomic categorization. It comes after Phylum and before Order.
What is Class?
300
Physical or behavioral traits passed down from parent to child that increase an animal's chance of surviving and reproducing in a given environment.
What are Adaptations?
300
The wing type which allows songbirds to maneuver through dense forests and quickly escape predators.
What are elliptical wings?
300
A bird named after it brilliantly colored tail-feathers.
What is a Red-tailed hawk?
400
Various birds who hunt, migrate and nest near the sea. They have Fishing beaks and most have webbed feet. Typically found near saltwater.
Examples include Gulls, Puffins, and Piping Plovers
What are Seabirds?
400
The phylum which contains all Vertebrate and Protochordates.
What is Chordata?
400
Examples of this would be: Feather Color, Beak Shape, and Egg Size.
What are Physical Adaptations
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What are Physical Traits
400
The wing shape which allows some oceanic seabirds to migrate long distances using horizontal sea breezes.
What are Active Soaring Wings?
400
A bird named after it's common perching place in a person's home.
What is a Chimney swift?
500
Long-Legged birds with no webbed feet that hunt in shallow waters with Filtering or Fishing beaks.
Examples include Great Blue Herons, Flamingos, and Cranes
What are Wading birds?
500
The subphylum consisting of the following 7 classes: Aves, Mammalia, Reptilia, Amphibia, Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, and Osteichthyes.
What is Vertebrata?
500
Examples of this would be: Diurnal activity, Courtship displays, and Migration.
What are Behavioral Adaptations
OR
What are Behavioral Traits
500
The beak type which allows ducks to scoop up plants, seeds, insects, and small animals out of the water or mud.
What is a Filter-feeding beak?
500
A bird named after it unique call and it's geographical location.
What is a Eastern whip-poor-will?