Bird Facts
Most distinguishing feature of a bird.
What is feather?
Large flat structure on bird’s breastbone that enables wings muscles to attach.
The chamber in a ruminant stomach.
What is rumen?
Body part on some monkeys that acts like an extra limb.
What is prehensile tail?
A hooved mammal.
What is ungulate?
Visual or vocal displays of a male to attract females.
What is courtship?
Series of hollow chambers that form part of the respiratory system of birds.
What is air sacs?
Reproductive organ for storing ova until they are fertilized or laid; in most mammals the organ in which an embryo develops
What is uterus?
Layer of fat on animals such as whales.
What is blubber?
Mammals that only eat meat.
What is carnivores?
Period of time when the female has to keep the egg warm, usually done by sitting on egg.
What is incubate?
Part of bird that makes characteristic songs of birds.
What is syrinx?
An organ connecting the young to mother’s uterus.
Diluted solution of urea.
What is urine?
Animals that use echolocation.
What is bats and cetaceans?
Reason behind perching birds not falling while asleep.
What is their feet lock on the branch?
Sac-like enlargement of the esophagus that stores the food until it can be digested.
What is crop?
Large muscle that separates thoracic cavity from abdominal cavity
What is diaphragm?
Period of time between conception and birth.
What is gestation?
Mammal that lays eggs.
What is monotremes?
Two layers that protect the bird's egg.
What is albumen and shell?
Thick and muscular part of bird that grinds the food.
What is gizzard?
Produce milk for mammals.
What is mammary gland?
Traveling of certain animals to a different part of the world in able to be in an environment that properly supports them.
What is migration?
Armadillo is in a mammal group.
What is odd mammals?