Behavior
This dramatic bird will pretend to have a broken wing to lure you away from its nest.
What is a killdeer?
This US state was home to 73 recently extinct birds.
What is Hawaii?
The parts of a bird that help with flight, insulation, camouflage, communication, and more.
What are feathers?
The only dinosaur lineage to survive the mass extinction event.
What are birds?
This species holds funerals for members of the flock that pass away.
What are crows?
This bird family, known for their particularly long tongues, has been seen on video licking other birds at feeders to scare them away.
What are woodpeckers?
This bird is the largest endangered bird in the USA.
What is the California Condor?
This organ is part of a bird’s digestive system and grinds food that is tough to process.
What is a gizzard?
This was the first discovered species of pterosaur, which are considered close cousins of dinosaurs. (Despite this species being able to fly, birds are not their descendants.)
What are pterodactyls?
This color feather is not caused by pigment, but is actually created by feather structure at a microscopic level that causes light to scatter and create an illusion.
What is blue?
This term describes a breeding strategy, most commonly used by cuckoos and cowbirds, that involves laying eggs in another bird’s nest so they raise it as their own.
What is brood parasitism?
This large woodpecker is presumed extinct, but unconfirmed sightings continue.
What is the ivory-billed woodpecker?
These birds have bones that are not hollow. (Multiple correct answers, only need 1)
What are penguins/loons/grebes/puffins/ratites (some)?
This type of reptile is the closest living relative of birds. Both directly descended from dinosaurs.
What is a crocodile?
This bird has dagger-like claws, can disembowel an individual, and can also jump 7 feet high.
What is a cassowary?
This bird family is the only one with several species that have been seen mating during flight.
What are swallows?
This family of birds has the most endangered species according to the IUCN.
What are finches? (Fringillidae)
BGSU has ____ taxidermy birds on display in the Life Sciences building (closest answer wins).
What is 1,100?
This small, feathered dinosaur with a sickle-shaped claw on each foot was popularized by the Jurassic Park movies.
What is a velociraptor?
This species has developed hollow bones in their wings that creates music to lure females.
What is the club-winged manakin?
This ground-dwelling species uses Batesian mimicry, making a hissing noise that mimics a rattlesnake in order to scare off intruders.
What are burrowing owls?
This endangered bird was put forward to be the state bird of Florida, but the bill was defeated.
What is the Florida scrub jay?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This word describes feet with two toes facing forward and two toes facing backward.
What is zygodactyl?
This raven-sized, feathered dinosaur is known for being the dinosaur most closely-related to modern birds. Discovered two years after Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, it has become a key piece of evidence for the origin of birds and a confirmation of evolution.
What is Archaeopteryx?
This is one of the 4 migratory flyways in North America, that Ohio is located along. (Hint: it’s the name of a US state, and not Ohio!)
What is the Mississippi flyway?