What Makes a Bird a Bird?
A bird travels from one habitat to another for different seasons
What is migrating?
When a bird loses its old feathers and grows new ones
What is molting?
Muscles that help a bird fly
What are flight muscles?
What is a pup?
This is the study of insects.
What is entomology?
Birds belong to this class
What is Aves?
The five basic types of bird feathers.
What are contour, down, semiplume, filoplumes and bristles?
The bone in a bird's chest that the muscles are attached to.
What is the keel?
There are two kind of bats
What are fruit eaters and animal eaters?
Insects that are not beneficial to people.
What are pests?
This strip of color that crosses the bird's wing horizontally.
What is a wingbar?
The shaft is made up of this material
What is Keratin?
What is undulating flight?
A claw that sticks out of the top of the wing
What is the bat thumb?
Simple eyes are also called.
What is ocelli?
The little differences that separate one bird from another.
What are field markings?
These are flight feathers on the wings
What are remiges?
The pattern of stars that birds use at night to navigate.
What are constellations?
The bounce that happens when a bat makes a noise and the noise hits something.
What is echo?
What is a bombardier beetle?
A bird makes sounds through its voice box
What is the syrinx?
What is iridescent?
The champion of all migrating birds.
This means a bat feeds on blood.
What is sanguinivorous?
The worker ants make these tunnels.
What are galleries?