Bye-Bye Birdie
This is a word used to describe birds when they can no loner be found on earth.
What is extinct?
This is another word for the mouth of a bird.
What is bill/beak?
This feature found on a bird helps them fly, and is not shared with any other living animal.
What is feather?
This is the smallest bird in the world.
What is a hummingbird?
When you are hiking and come upon a birds nest, this is something you should not do.
What is collecting/touching/ or disturbing birds nest?
This bird is the United States Symbol, and was almost driven to extinction by a pesticide called DDT.
What is the Bald Eagle?
Used for flight.
What are wings?
Baby Birds develop in these.
What are eggs?
The seasonal movement of birds from one place to another.
What is migration.
Birds often fly into these "invisible" structures, found everywhere from skyscrapers to your house.
What are windows?
This is an obstacle that can obstruct a birds flight pattern.
What is a radio cell tower, an antenna, a building, an electrical wire, or a windmill?
The claws found on a bird.
What are talons?
Most owls use this to find food.
What is sound or listening?
Male birds are brightly colored for this reason.
What is to attract a mate/protect its young?
These are domestic predators (household pets) that kill one hundreds of thousands of birds each year.
What are cats?
This is one of the major causes of extinction in the world.
What is habitat loss?
Name of a bird just born, 0-4 days of age, has some down feather.
What is hatchling?
The type of feathers that keep birds warm from the winter.
What are downy feathers?
One of the fastest birds in the world.
What is peregrine falcon?
These are chemicals that have led to decline in the population of many birds each year.
Only 100 years ago, flocks of these birds were common and used to deliver. Over hunting drove them to extinction.
What is Passenger Pigeon?
A curved and pointed bill picks out insects and spiders from tree bark.
What is tweezer bill?
What makes a bird skeleton different from other animal skeletons?
What are hollow bones?
What is the one sense that vultures rely on that is not well developed in other birds.
Sense of Smell
The act (Federal Law) created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect birds and other wildlife populations.
What is the Endangered Species Act?