Bye Bye Birdie
This is a word used to describe birds when they can no longer be found on earth.
What is extinct?
This is another word for the mouth of a bird.
What is the bill/beak?
Bird Watchers use these to bring birds into closer view.
What are binoculars?
This is the smallest bird in the world.
What is a hummingbird?
When you are hiking and come upon a bird’s nest, this is something you should not do.
What is collecting, touching, or disturbing birds or the nests?
This bird is the United States symbol, and was almost driven to extinction by a pesticide called DDT.
What is the bald eagle?
The claws found on a bird of prey.
What are talons?
The seasonal movement of birds from one place to another is called this.
What is migration?
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 bird’s flight pattern.
What is - a radio/cell phone tower, an antenna, a building, an electrical wire, or a windmill?
The natural process of replacing old feathers with new ones.
What is molting?
Thes books are often used to help identify birds.
What are field guides?
One of the fastest birds in the world is this one.
What is a Peregrine Falcon?
These are domestic predators (household pets) that kill 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?
The name of this type of nest, made by woodpeckers, is also what a hole in your tooth is called.
What is a cavity?
In order to avoid competition, this is the reason birds migrate.
What is to find food?
Bird feathers and beaks are made out of this material.
What is keratin?
These are chemicals that have led to declines in the population of many bird species.
What are pesticides?
Only 100 years ago, flocks of 1,000’s of these birds were common. Over-hunting drove them to extinction.
What is the Passenger Pigeon?
This is another word for the feathers of a bird.
What is plumage?
This is made up of food, water, shelter, and space.
What is habitat?
What is the one sense that vultures rely on that is not well developed in other birds?
What is sense of smell?
The Act (Federal law) created by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to protect birds and other wildlife populations.
What is the Endangered Species Act?